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USM's tight budget kills dream for art and design building downtown
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USO giving South Mississippi military families Portraits of Love
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Young hairstylist is kuttin up in the Kiln
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DMR pours more than $1.4 million into fishing boats in South Mississippi
BILOXI -- The state Department of Marine Resources, headed by Bill Walker, has since 2007 spent more than $1.46 million in public money on two recreational fishing boats leased from a foundation Walker also manages, state records show.
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GULFPORT -- Mississippi's U.S. senators, Gov. Phil Bryant and state port commission president Jim Simpson will meet this week with the official who...