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Mississippi State snaps seven-game skid with Homecoming win over Massachusetts
STARKVILLE — It didn’t seem possible for Mississippi State to sink any deeper than the Bulldogs already had this season, but MSU was on its way to finding a new low a quarter into Saturday’s ...
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FBI links video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia to ‘Russian influence actors’
WASHINGTON — A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday as they warned that foreign ...
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Mississippi has 3 contested US House races and 1 incumbent without a challenger
JACKSON — Mississippi has three contested U.S. House elections and one incumbent who will win another term with no opposition in the general election. Republican Rep. Trent Kelly faces ...
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McDonald’s E. coli case count rises as federal officials inspect an onion grower
WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Wednesday reported more cases of E. coli poisoning among people who ate at McDonald’s, as government investigators seeking the outbreak’s source identified ...
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Chance meeting in Costa Rica thrusts Columbus woman onto Paris runway
Renée Owen walks down the runway at CMG New York City Fashion Week, held Sept. 7 at the TRYP Hotel by Wyndham in Times Square. She is wearing a dress designed by Cupani Fashion, with makeup and ...
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Mississippi legislative leaders advocate Medicaid expansion, heading to conflict with the governor
JACKSON — Mississippi’s Republican legislative leaders said Thursday that they plan to push for Medicaid expansion to cover working people who earn too little to afford private insurance — a ...
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Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign’s last days
WASHINGTON — For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message away. The very future of ...
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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that ...
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Ex-SFD training officer acquitted of embezzlement
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY — A jury in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court on Thursday acquitted a former training officer for Starkville Fire Department accused of felony embezzlement. Clarence Parks was ...
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Outdoors column: Using more than enough gun has its effect
The Boy took his time settling the crosshairs on what was about to be his first deer of the season. He squeezed the trigger, said, “Bull’s-eye!” and, 15 minutes later, found the doe at the ...
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Prosecutor says veteran’s subway chokehold ‘went too far.’ Defense says his ‘courage’ helped others
NEW YORK — Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s encounter last year with a distressed, angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny ...
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Area culinary students test their kitchen skills in ‘Chopped’ cooking competition
“We only have three minutes left, and I don’t have a knife,” David Akwaowo shouts, hands in the air, as steam rolls off of the freshly baked chicken roulade on the silver counter in front of ...