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Taylor announces electric vehicle innovation powered by the best-in-class battery Technology by Proterra
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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 12:24 PM
From press reports Taylor Machine Works, Inc. has always been at the forefront of innovation and problem solving throughout its 94 years of manufacturing.
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Diamond Lil for Jul 28, 2021
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Wed, 07/28/2021 - 02:10 AM
Comic By: Brett Koth

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Crime report for 7/23-7/26
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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:00 AM
GREENWOOD POLICE DEPT.
James Davis, 65, 710 Walthall St., DUI (first offense), released on bond.
Felicia Renae Triplett, 39, 308 6th St., contempt of court, public intoxication, jailed.
Cordaries Pugh, 26, Regency Inn, Room 207, evading (felony), failure to comply, resisting arrest, jailed.
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Trusting the therapeutic process
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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:00 AM
Every summer I tell myself that I’m going to read a ton of books with all my free time, but inevitably I am lucky if I can finish a couple.
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Tony Jeff on Angel Investing in Mississippi
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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 07:18 PM
Innovate Mississippi CEO Tony Jeff has helped raise $17 million in seed money for startups over the last three years and there's more to come, Jeff told the Rotary Club of North Jackson.

Innovate Mississippi has created an "angel investor" network of startups, mentor and investors to fuel growth in Mississippi's technology sector.
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Valour Cobbins, a winemaker by trade, has seen her downtown deli, The Bread and Butter Shoppe, become popular in just a few months. (By Riley Overend)

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Your Neighbor: Valour Cobbins: Deli owner busy with her ‘fun journey’
By RILEY OVEREND, 359 Reads
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:00 AM
The Bread and Butter Shoppe started as just a side project for Valour Cobbins, a winemaker who needed to generate revenue while getting her business off the ground at the former site of The Winery at Williams Landing on Howard Street.
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From left, DahKeivyon Pryor, Detondra Pryor, Lashaundra Pryor, Kenneth Pryor and Niafritedee Brewer enjoy the free food and school supplies they received during Sunday’s Back-to-School Megafest at Whittington Park. The event also featured music, games, free haircuts and items from local businesses, and representatives from the Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District helped parents get their students registered. Brandice Brown, a teacher at Amanda Elzy High School, organized the gathering. (By Gerard Edic)

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Preparing for school
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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:00 AM
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Janie Ruth Adams Simmons
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Wed, 07/28/2021 - 02:00 AM
Janie Ruth Adams Simmons passed away on July 2, 2021, at Indywood Glen in Greenwood.
She was born on May 3, 1937, to Noah and Ester Lee Adams in Baldwyn. She was employed by Mr. Whitty Wall, V&M Cotton Co., Ellis and Hirshberg, and Planters Bank. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Inverness.
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The state's defined benefit pension system got a massive boost from the stock market in fiscal 2020.

Preliminary data shows PERS had massive 30 percent investment returns in fiscal 2020
By Steve Wilson, 236 Reads
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 02:30 PM
According to preliminary data, the state's defined benefit pension system had its second-best year in investment income, a boost that will greatly help the flailing fund's bottom line.
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Attorney general candidate Lynn Fitch speaks during the Madison and Hinds County Republican Women candidate forum at The Lake House in Ridgeland, Miss., Monday, August 26, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America

Lynn Fitch asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
By Will Stribling - Mississippi Today, 129 Reads
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 11:24 AM
In a brief filed on July 22, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule Roe v.
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