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Cruise ship smokestack catches fire in Turks & Caicos
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,05/26/22-12:41PM, 26 Reads
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The smokestack of a Carnival Cruise ship docked in the Turks & Caicos Islands caught fire on Thursday and officials allowed guests and crew members to go ashore as heavy smoke billowed into the air.
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Mississippi Covid-19 Update : May 26, 2022
By PRESS RELEASE - MSDH
Thu,05/26/22-12:34PM, 72 Reads 0 Statewide
Listed below is the daily COVID-19 update for the state of Mississippi.

New cases of COVID-19:

505

New COVID-19 positive test results reported to MSDH as of 3 p.m. yesterday.
Repeated tests for the same individual are counted only once.

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Karla Hailer, a fifth-grade teacher from Scituate, Mass., takes a video on July 19, 2017, where a memorial stands at the site in Salem, Mass., where five women were hanged as witches more than three centuries years earlier. Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday, May 26, 2022, formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

329 years later, last Salem 'witch' who wasn't is pardoned
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Thu,05/26/22-12:17PM, 47 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been officially pardoned.

Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Editorial: Two big state challenges
Thu,05/26/22-11:38AM, 82 Reads 1,131 Statewide
Mississippi lawmakers are patting themselves on the back for a variety of accomplishments this legislative season including raising teacher pay up to national levels, implementing medical marijuana, reducing the state income tax and funding local infrastructure, among others.
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