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Can't find out any info down here.

Oxford, MS A fire swept through a fraternity house at the University of Mississippi early Friday and three students were missing, officials said. The three students, members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, were not immediately identified.

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30550 Friday, January 17, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporations proud of 'gay' politics Magazine honors 5 firms for promoting homosexuality -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 17, 2003 10:45 p.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Out magazine is honoring five corporations this month for their aggressive sponsorship of homosexuality and promotion of "gay" and transgender politics, reports the Culture and Family Institute. Anheuser-Busch, Kodak, ChevronTexaco, Wells Fargo and Philip Morris Companies Inc. were given space in the magazine, which celebrates "gay" and lesbian life, to make statements...

<p>Three University of Mississippi freshmen have been placed on probation, must perform community service and turn in research papers for writing racist graffiti on fellow African-Americans' dorm doors at Ole Miss in November.</p> <p>Punishment, announced Thursday, was handed down by the University Judicial Council, a student-faculty panel, after a 4 1/2-hour meeting Wednesday night.</p>

<p>Colin Powell opposes unilateral action against Iraq. President Bush favors it. Who do "you" trust?</p> <p>The slow leak in the GOP has widened into a serious hull breach. She's taking on water and listing to the right. Abandon ship!</p> <p>The Republican Party is more out of step with average Americans than ever before, and the gap is widening every day. From the environment to business ethics to military aggression overseas, the GOP appears again and again to unapologetically represent the interests of polluters, corrupt businessmen, military industrial contractors and oil tycoons foreign and domestic.</p>

<p>Longtime Mississippi stage actress Lydy Becker Caldwell, mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley, was fatally stabbed Thursday during an early morning break-in at her northeast Jackson home.</p> <p>Willie Earl Wilson, 33, a felon on probation, was arrested 10 minutes after she died, said Robert Graham, a spokesman for the Jackson Police Department. Wilson was charged with capital murder.</p>

I-20 and Highway 80 between Monroe and Ruston, Louisanna are shut down. Does anyone know why? My brother has been stuck in traffic for 30 minutes sitting at a standstill. Can't find anything posted on KNOE website. Ya'll got any answers?

My mother's 14 year old Siamese cat was killed Thursday night by a pack of dogs. Scares me because the cat was locked in a screen porch and the dogs tore through the door to get him. She's really distraught(sp?) and I told her I would try to help her find another one. So come on guys, help me out. Oh, and about the dogs, my Dad's going to take care of them. We figure if dogs are vicious enough to tear through a screen door, my 3 year old might look like easy pickings.

Racial dispute overshadows board action By STEVEN G. WATSON Managing Editor CANTON — A successful attempt to reorganize the Planning Commission erupted into a discussion over race Tuesday before the board was trimmed in half, with one alderman claiming he “didn’t get the white vote” and therefore was responsible only to his African American constituents. Planning Commission Chairman Miriam Buttross Kuory came before the board asking aldermen to reorganize the city’s 16-member Planning Commission, saying it was to large. As Kuory made her proposal to the board, Alderman-at-Large William Truly expressed his opinion that the Planning Commission did not represent...

Has anyone else heard that all the cropdusters have been grounded? Rumors going around down here in Mississippi are that the FBI has grounded all crop-dusters. Is this happening anywhere else or is this just another rumor?