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The state Department of Education has canceled special education training planned for Friday at Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg. More  

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Who is Dan Mullen?

New MSU football coach Dan Mullen and his wife, Megan, greet fans at the Bulldogs' basketball game Wednesday night in Starkville. Bill Simmonds/Special to The Clarion-Ledger

The spread offense had yet to be invented when Dan Mullen was a toddler in the early 1970's. More

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Batte means business: Family's furniture store marks 125 years

John C. Batte III is the fourth-generation owner of  Batte Furniture & Interiors in Jackson. The original store (below) opened in 1883 and was located downtown on Capitol Street. It moved to its current location on Northside Drive in 1961. Vickie D. King/The Clarion-Ledger

t was 20 years old when the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane, 58 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 86 when humans first set foot on the moon. Batte Furniture & Interiors on Northside Drive is celebrating its 125th year in Jackson. More

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Bailouts followed convention bankrolls

Financial giants now being bailed out by the government spent millions underwriting the Democratic and Republican conventions last summer, just weeks before coming to Washington begging for multibillion-dollar handouts. More

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Clinton closes schools early

Clinton public schools will dismiss early today as temperatures continue to drop and the threat of icy conditions increases More

Don't miss Christmas Fest at Ag Museum

Morgan Smith, a first-grader at Monticello Elementary watches one of the train displays at the Mississippi Agriculture Museum on Thursday. Melanie Thortis | Northeast Ledger

In the holiday cartoon special A Charlie Brown Christmas, the lead character laments the commercialization of the season. More

Eyevox the site for holiday radio drama

Cast members include (from left) Cory Drake, Hannah Bryan, John Howell, J.C. Patterson, Beth Kander, Danny Dauphin, Bret Kenyon and Richard Lawrence. Special to The Herald

This December, nestled in the studios of Eyevox Film & Video Production, there will be a new holiday offering: a live performance of an original Christmas radio drama, Charles Dickens' Forgotten Holiday Fables. More

Expansion to add 96 cells to county detention center

Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington and Capt. Eddie Thompson discuss the expansion of the Rankin County Detention Center. The addition is set to open in March of 2009. Melanie Thortis | Rankin Ledger

On just about any given day, inmates fill Rankin County Detention Center to its brim - sometimes about a 100 people over its regular capacity. More

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Exercise guidelines help you 'get active your way'

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The government has raised the bar for physical activity levels — and nobody's exempt, not even children or older adults. And exercise researchers couldn't be happier.

The newest Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are the most comprehensive federal recommendations ever and the new gold standard.


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