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Belden, Endville home delivery begins next week
Other towns will be phased in through September 29.
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$90 million released to four-lane Highway 9
Board also approves for Cochran Road improvements
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Petition for beer sales in county circulating
Veteran pastor opposed to issue (see end of original story)
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BIZ BUZZ: Toyota posts more MS job openings
As of noon Thursday, Toyota has 33 openings on Toyota.com/jobs for its Blue Springs plant.
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BLOG: New growth in Pontotoc
Check out this blog from a Pontotoc360.com user and share your opinion on growth in Pontotoc.
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Tax assessor granted extension for tax rolls in Pontotoc County
County supervisors granted the tax assessor a 30-day extension for getting them crucial information for setting a budget.
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Work at pair of elementary schools under way
New construction at both Pontotoc Elementary School and D.T. Cox Elementary School is under way.
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Suit seeks to block Miss. 'personhood' initiative
Abortion opponent Les Riley of Pontotoc led the effort to gather more than 106,000 signatures for the initiative.
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Intersection at Cairo Loop needs 3-way stop sign
by Sandra Priest/Special to the Progress
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Mayor Tom Todd met with Ecru Aldermen last Tuesday evening to conduct the regular board meeting for the month of July.
UPDATE: Body identified, Lewis Faiella
by Pontotoc Progress
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Pontotoc County Coroner Kim Bedford says a body found on Pontocola Road on Friday evening is not going to be ruled a homicide.
Sheriff’s department finds dead body in home
by NEMS Daily Journal
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The Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Department is awaiting autopsy results on a body found on Pontocola Road on Friday evening.
California or Bust
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These young people aren’t rushing to California to pan for gold, but they are going by way of leg work on their bicycles.
Two charged with passing counterfeit bills in Pontotoc
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Federal charges of manufacturing money are pending
'Plenty of peaches'
by Carlie Kollath/NEMS Daily Journal
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Peach season finally is getting started at Cherry Creek Orchard in Pontotoc.
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Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies, left, bring in a suspect arrested during a crime suppression sweep in Phoenix on Thursday, July 29, 2010.  This was Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 17th immigration and crime sweep after hundreds of immigrant rights supporters delayed the effort with a rally at a downtown jail, in opposition to Arizona's new immigration law. A judge put the most controversial elements of the law on hold, but allowed other portions to take effect. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country.


Fri Jul 30 14:36:12 -0500 2010

FILE - In this file photo made Oct. 25, 2007, the BP (British Petroleum) logo is seen at a gas station in Washington. BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of its effort to repair the company's badly damaged reputation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of efforts to repair the company's badly damaged reputation.


Fri Jul 30 11:41:44 -0500 2010

Former President Bill Clinton talks to people as he leaves a restaurant in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on Friday, July 30, 2010. Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.


Fri Jul 30 14:30:14 -0500 2010

Laura Fattal, left, Cindy Hickey, center, and Nora Shourd, mothers of three American hikers jailed in Iran, participate in a demonstration outside Iran's mission to the United Nations, in New York,  Friday, July 30, 2010. Saturday marks a year since the hikers were arrested along the Iraqi border. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.


Fri Jul 30 13:56:30 -0500 2010