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Associated Press - December 3, 2009 1:54 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Mississippi man has been charged with fraudulently receiving $138,400 in federal loan money after Hurricane Katrina.
Ask a roomful of people to name their favorite book of this or any year and you are likely to get a roomful of answers. We polled some of our regular book critics and staffers to compile this list of the top 100 books of the year.
Square dancers from 10 states recently came to Memphis to "allemande left and do se do" at the 47th Mid-South Square & Round Dance Festival hosted at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Lakeland. The Festival is sponsored each year by the Greater Memphis Square & Round Dance Association.The two-day festival featured the "calling" of Texans Mike, D' and Drew Bramlett and the "cueing" of David ...
Percy Quin State Park near McComb is the most visited and biggest revenue producer in the Mississippi park system, according to park Manager Will Busby.
The Culture Project will present the post-Hurricane Katrina stage work Swimming Upstream as part of its 2010 season Off-Broadway.
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Mayor Bill White abandoned his campaign for U.S. Senate on Friday in favor of a run for Texas governor.
A public auction of over 400 FEMA bunk houses, travel trailers, mobile homes and park homes in varying states of condition will be held at Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales Dec. 5.
WHITE PLAINS — A 41-year-old Pomona man serving time in prison for ripping off Rockland County residents for $2.13 million was given a concurrent sentence today for stealing $200,000 from a Westchester brokerage firm.
They ain't the Ain'ts anymore. And ain't that grand for New Orleans. Football's once-hapless New Orleans Saints are on a roll at 11-0, lifting spirits in the hurricane-battered city four miserable years after Katrina.
Planet Earth, 2010 After a year of unprecedented spending on federal lobbying to shape public opinion and the policy debate on climate legislation, on December...
Pfc. Christopher Trumbull, a soldier assigned to the 172nd Support Battalion, secures a cargo container for transport during a late-night convoy in February at Forward Operating Base Iskan. U.S. forces were in the midst of preparing to turn the base over to the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity.
HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Mayor Bill White abandoned his campaign for U.S. Senate on Friday in favor of a run for Texas governor. The Democrat immediately becomes his party's strongest candidate with $4 million in his Senate campaign fund that he can transfer to a governor's race fund.
Pascagoula received the state’s blessing in its efforts to move the Round Island Lighthouse from the island to U.S. 90 and the entrance to the city.
Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
How low can he go?
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Mayor Bill White abandoned his campaign for U.S. Senate on Friday in favor of a run for Texas governor. The Democrat immediately becomes his party's strongest candidate with $4 million in his Senate campaign fund that he can transfer to a governor's race fund. White, a wealthy attorney, chipped in more than $1 million himself. "I'll be a Governor who challenges Texans to ...
