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State moves ahead with child care finger scanners
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,07/18/13-3:03PM , 158 Reads
JACKSON — After more than a year’s delay, the Mississippi Department of Human Services is requiring that parents use a finger scanner to sign children in and out of federally subsidized child care.
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Capital murder trial might be postponed
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Thu,07/18/13-3:02PM , 142 Reads
STARKVILLE — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has asked a judge in Oktibbeha County to let him withdraw as attorney for a Sturgis man, whose trial on capital murder charges is scheduled for Monday in Starkville.
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School merger group must prepare report
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,07/18/13-3:01PM , 143 Reads
STARKVILLE — A commission looking at the possible consolidation of the Starkville and Oktibbeha County schools will hear from the public on Aug. 22.

The Commission on Stark-ville/Oktibbeha Consolidated School District also must prepare a report for the Mississippi Legislature by March 1, 2014. The results of the study are not binding.
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Mississippi blues guitarist, singer ‘T-Model’ Ford dies
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Wed,07/17/13-2:21PM , 158 Reads
JACKSON — James Lewis Carter “T-Model” Ford, a hard-living blues singer who taught himself to play guitar when he was 58 years old and his fifth wife left him, died Tuesday at his home in Greenville.
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