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Pops at the Park Last Updated: 10:45 PM 07/04/08 - From young to old, thousands packed Bonita Lakes park in Meridian for the annual "Pops at the Park " Fourth of July celebrations. (Full Story)

Guard And Reserve Special Report-Part 3 Last Updated: 10:30 PM 07/04/08 - These two families say they have been fortunate. Neither dad has had to leave home for more than several weeks at a time, but if they were deployed for a long stay..they know their families back home will support them. (Full Story)

Former N.C. Senator Jesse Helms Dies Last Updated: 12:10 PM 07/04/08 - The White House says the nation has "lost a great public servant and true patriot." (Full Story)

Zach Scruggs To Report To Prison Next Month Last Updated: 11:52 AM 07/04/08 - The younger Scruggs had hoped that U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. would delay his reporting date so he could be home for the birth of he and his wife's third child. (Full Story)

Governor Barbour Criticizes Lawmakers On Medicaid Last Updated: 11:51 AM 07/04/08 - He's criticizing them for not being able to fill a budget hole for Medicaid. (Full Story)

City Files Suit Against Jennings Last Updated: 7:58 PM 07/03/08 - Meridian's N-A-A-C-P Education Chair Randle Jennings went before the City Council Tuesday to ask the City to help find some programs for teens in the summer. (Full Story)

Guard And Reserve Special Report-Part 2 Last Updated: 7:06 PM 07/03/08 - Guard Officials say it is important that the men and women of the 186th get the sense of being deployed while they train. To achieve this the 186th flew down to Gulfport's Combat Readiness Training Center for the wing's annual training (Full Story)

Attorneys Ask For Stay In Death Row Case Last Updated: 1:07 PM 07/03/08 - Attorneys for Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop are asking for a stay of his scheduled July 23 execution. (Full Story)

Medicaid budget Still A Problem Last Updated: 1:05 PM 07/03/08 - Mississippi lawmakers will return to the Capitol next Tuesday to continue their special session. (Full Story)

Drug Roundup Arrests Last Updated: 7:07 PM 07/03/08 - MORE THAN A DOZEN ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN A DRUG ROUNDUP IN CLARKE COUNTY. (Full Story)

Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed Last Updated: 6:49 AM 07/04/08 - Creation of a new Earth Systems Science Agency is urged in this week's edition of the journal Science, by merging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey. (Full Story)

Wind keeps California fires raging on 2 fronts Last Updated: 5:41 PM 07/04/08 - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes. (Full Story)

July Tropical Storms Last Updated: 6:48 AM 07/04/08 - Tropical Depression Two developed before sun-up Thursday morning off the coast of Africa, and by midday Thursday the National Hurricane Center had upgraded it to Tropical Storm Bertha. (Full Story)

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