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Weeks-long boil water notice lifted in Mississippi capital

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A boil-water notice has been lifted in Mississippi’s capital city after nearly seven weeks. Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson officials made the announcement Thursday. Emergency repairs are still underway after…

Popular Gulfport restaurant closes its doors

A popular Mexican restaurant in downtown Gulfport has closed its doors for good. Owner Mercedes Carranza posted on the restaurant's Facebook page today that the restaurant is closing. A sign on the locked doors of the eatery on Highway 49…

AARP offers help with voter registration

The Pascagoula Public Library will host AARP Voter Registration Drive on Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m. in the meeting room.   Guest presenter, Irma Martin with AARP, will be at the library to help people register to vote and educate…

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor is laid to rest, at last

CHICAGO (AP) — A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War…