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UPDATE: Nearly 1,000 attend ex-Choctaw chief's funeral
by The Associated Press
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Nearly 1,000 people gathered Monday for the funeral of Phillip Martin, the former chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
UPDATE: McGlowan in GOP race for north Miss. US House seat
by The Associated Press
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Conservative author and TV commentator Angela McGlowan says she's running for Congress in northern Mississippi.
A family on Wilmuth Street in Iuka reinflated a favorite outside display just in time for Monday s heavy snowfall. (Lena Mitchell)
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Winter Weather hits Northeast Miss.
by NEMS Daily Journal
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Storm brings snow to northern part of Northeast Mississippi.
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Obama's health care summit: Just for show? (AP)

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic and GOP ideas are stark — and the two sides have increasingly hardened their positions in this election year.


Mon Feb 08 18:52:53 -0600 2010
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota's powerful DC friends (AP)

FILE - In this May 9, 1996 file photo, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Then-West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, right, point across the new Toyota Motor Company's TM MV Plant as Toyota Motor Company's President Hiroshi Okuda, center, looks on during ceremonies at the site in Buffalo, W.Va. Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)AP - The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota supplier.


Mon Feb 08 15:30:08 -0600 2010
GOP cool to Obama call for two-party health talks (AP)

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation.


Mon Feb 08 15:55:05 -0600 2010