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Recently cleared of harmful algae, Coast waters now closed for nasty bacteria

Environmental officials in Mississippi are warning beachgoers that some coastal swimming areas will be closed after bacteria were…

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Purported fortune teller sentenced to prison for taking $1.6 million from woman to remove family ‘curse’

A South Florida woman who claimed to be a psychic fortune teller has been sentenced to three years…

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Gallery: Cathedral Green Wave stumble against St. Joe Madison

The Cathedral Green Wave took on the St. Joseph-Madison Cougars at Devereux Stadium in Natchez. The Green Wave…

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Alabama couple sentenced on child porn charges involving Mississippi girl

An Alabama couple has been sentenced to prison on charges related to producing child porn. A Justice Department…

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Southern Miss to sell beer, wine at football games this season

HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss is set to become the first Mississippi university to sell alcohol in its football…

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Mississippi moonshot: John C. Stennis Space Center, where Apollo’s Saturn rockets first fired

Dozens and dozens of Mississippians worked at what was then called the Mississippi Test Facility in Hancock County…

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Mississippi moonshot: Fred Haise, Mississippi’s native born Apollo astronaut

Fred Haise Jr., a Biloxi native, may be Mississippi’s most famous face connected to the Apollo space program.…

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Mississippi moonshot: Jerry Bostick, flight dynamics officer that inadvertently created famous ‘Apollo 13’ line

Jerry Bostick grew up in the tiny town of Golden, Mississippi, in Tishomingo County. He graduated with a…

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Mississippi moonshot: Josephine Jue, Mississippi native, NASA mathematician, first Asian-American woman at NASA

Born in Vance, Mississippi, Josephine Jue began working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963 as…

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Mississippi moonshot: Bill Moon, son of Chinese immigrants who worked at Mission Control Center during Apollo

Cleveland, Mississippi, native William “Bill” Moon was reportedly the only Chinese-American inside the Mission Control Center in Houston…