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Old Post Files for Tuesday, July 29, 2014
70 Years Ago: 1944 H.V. Cooper is elected state director of the National Education Association. 60 Years Ago: 1954 James Byrd is installed as commander ...
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WWI set stage for brothers’ deaths
A century ago today, a small central-European country that no longer exists declared war on an even smaller country that has only in the past few ...
by Josh Edwards, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:33 am
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VNMP visitors give local economy $30 million boost
More than half a million visitors to Vicksburg National Military Park pumped more than $30 million into the local economy during the sesquicentennial commemoration last ...
by Josh Edwards, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:29 am
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Tallulah doc’s girlfriend pleads guilty to 5 counts
Pattie Carr, who prosecutors say had her live-in boyfriend write her fraudulent prescriptions for more than 13,000 pills of painkillers, has pleaded guilty to five ...
by Josh Edwards, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:28 am
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Fatal wreck goes to grand jury
The case against a Warren County man accused of being intoxicated and causing a deadly crash on Washington Street tops cases to be presented to ...
by Josh Edwards, Monday, July 28, 2014 11:27 am
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WWII vet to get long-awaited medal
While George Long drifted in and out of a coma this week, his daughter received word that the World War II veteran would soon receive ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:10 am
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Crooks targeting seniors
Crooks and scammers are targeting Warren County’s senior population, and frequently the perpetrators are from close to home. The District Attorney’s Office has prosecuted a ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:05 am
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Thelma Dee Kleiser Sligh
Funeral services for Thelma Dee Kleiser Sligh, 85, of Natchez, who died Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg, will be ...
by Josh Edwards, Friday, July 25, 2014 11:30 am
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From every hill and molehill in Mississippi
I felt the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King’s world-changing ideas as I was seated in an aging wooden pew at Pleasant Green Baptist Church ...
by Josh Edwards, Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:06 pm
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Construction company owner indicted for fraud
A Warren County construction company owner accused of bilking money out of a community action agency was indicted in federal court Wednesday. Donald Walton, 51, ...
by Josh Edwards, Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:00 am
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Red Tops crooner dies at 87
Rufus Lee McKay, the vocalist for Vicksburg’s iconic Red Tops died Monday at River Region Medical Center. He was 87. Between 1953 and 1974, the ...
by Josh Edwards, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 10:58 am
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Church packed for Bethel concert
About 250 people filled the pews of historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Saturday as the church’s nationally renowned Young Adult Choir from the ...
by Josh Edwards, Monday, July 21, 2014 11:00 am
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50 years after visit, church recalls MLK in Vicksburg
A half century ago this week as Mississippians were still reeling from the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County and a new ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:00 am
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Escapee caught in county
An inmate who escaped from a work detail earlier this week in Lamar County was captured Friday afternoon following a two-hour standoff with Warren County ...
by Josh Edwards, Saturday, July 19, 2014 12:00 am
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Cub Scouts get soggy summer science lessons
With soda bottles, compressed air and plenty of water, more than five-dozen Warren County Cub Scouts earned credit toward science and engineering merit badges this ...
by Josh Edwards, Saturday, July 19, 2014 12:00 am
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Bethel’s famous choir in concert again
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Young Adult Choir that captivated the nation’s gospel scene in the late 1970s and early ’80s with musical prodigy ...
by Josh Edwards, Friday, July 18, 2014 10:35 am
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Vega retrial set for March
A Warren County teen accused of murder in the shooting death of her stepmother will go back to trial in March. Tyla Vega, 17, will ...
by Josh Edwards, Friday, July 18, 2014 10:32 am
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Body identified in Sunday night fatal fire
The body of a man found in a burned home on Old Mount Alban Road has been positively identified as a Warren County car dealer. ...
by Josh Edwards, Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:30 am
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Man charged; property returned to churches
A Vicksburg man accused of stealing musical equipment valued at more than $12,000 from two churches on Grove Street was held without bail this morning, ...
by Josh Edwards, Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:30 am
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Court denies appeal of drive-by shooter
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has affirmed the guilty verdict against a paralyzed Warren County man convicted of drive-by shooting on Jackson Street. The court ...
by Josh Edwards, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:30 am
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Tallulah doc’s trial moved to September
The prescription fraud trial for a Tallulah physician whose Vicksburg home was raided by narcotics agents in 2011 was delayed until September. Circuit Judge M. ...
by Josh Edwards, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:30 am
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Shoplifting case highlights legal changes
Kodey Goulette’s sentencing for shoplifting took less than a minute, but that few seconds, after a long delay Friday, set precedent for how the Ninth ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 13, 2014 1:30 am
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Junior Ranger Camp wraps up at park
After a week packed with arts, crafts, games and outdoor activities, Vicksburg National Military Park’s newest crop of young patrons seemed to barely realize they ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 13, 2014 1:26 am
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As numbers fall, Jews hope to save cemetery
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places could help save a symbol of Vicksburg’s once thriving Jewish population. The Mississippi National Register Review ...
by Josh Edwards, Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00 am
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Tallulah doctor seeks to delay prescription fraud trial
A Tallulah physician whose home in Vicksburg was raided by narcotics agents in 2011 will attempt Monday to have his trial delayed after retaining a ...
by Josh Edwards, Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00 am
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Concealed carry classes growing in county
Warren County’s latest enhanced concealed carry handgun class if filling up quickly, and demand for firearms classes is so high that the county has more ...
by Josh Edwards, Friday, July 11, 2014 11:13 am
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Former La. sheriff gets probation for hunting trip
The former sheriff of East Carroll Parish will spend three years on federal probation for going hunting with a convicted felon while he was still ...
by Josh Edwards, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:32 am
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Fields, as Grant, gets warm welcome
Gen. Grant sure got a warmer welcome this weekend than the first time he came to town. Dr. Curt Fields, a professor from Memphis with ...
by Josh Edwards, Sunday, July 6, 2014 12:00 am
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