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Houston Junior Legion tryouts
The Houston Travelers Junior American Legion/summer ball team will hold open tryouts May 16 at 3:30 p.m.
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ICC softball Breast Cancer Awareness Day a great success
The Itawamba Community College softball team took on Snead State and breast cancer awareness in the program’s first-ever Lady Indians Breast Cancer Awareness Day on Thursday.
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Four local gymnasts head to regional competition
Four members of Elite Gymnastics II in Tupelo will compete with the Mississippi team Sunday, April 9, at the Level 8 Region VIII Gymnastics Championships in Marietta, Ga.
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Pontotoc High School tennis report
The Pontotoc High tennis team is still winning.
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Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash

Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in BridgeportBy Karen Brooks (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and collided with a westbound passenger train on an adjacent track near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield. Eight people remained hospitalized on Saturday, three in critical condition, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said. ...


Sat May 18 13:06:17 UTC 2013
Powerball jackpot could go higher than $600 million

People wait in line to purchase Powerball lottery tickets at the Port Authority bus station in New YorkBy Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Powerball jackpot Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, possibly rivaling the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday. "Oftentimes, the advertised amount is lower than what the actual jackpot ends up being," said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery. "It's entirely possible this $600 million jackpot will end up being a bigger jackpot." The Powerball record in November was advertised at $550 million, but ended up being $587. ...


Sat May 18 13:30:43 UTC 2013
US Airways plane makes unusual belly landing at Newark airport
By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane's landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 a.m., and passengers were evacuated on the tarmac and transported to the terminal, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said in an email. ...
Sat May 18 12:51:40 UTC 2013
Residents capture amazing videos in the face of tornadoes
A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flattening entire neighborhoods. Seven people who were reported missing early Friday morning have now been accounted for, but the storms aren't over yet. Severe thunderstorms are expected late Friday in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Plains and the Midwest face [...]
Fri May 17 19:53:22 UTC 2013
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