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  • Column: 1963 title changed color of college game

    If you tuned into the start of the 1963 NCAA championship between little Loyola of Chicago and mighty Cincinnati, it looked like few, if any, of the college basketball games you'd ever watched before.


  • Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

    A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.


  • Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

    A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.


  • Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

    A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.


  • The civilian space travel industry is looking to states like New Mexico to expand legal protection if things go wrong. SpaceShipTwo is shown being carried to Spaceport America in New Mexico. (Associated Press)

    Spaceport wants protections from tourist lawsuits

    Spaceport America officials are urging legislators to limit potential lawsuits from wealthy outer space tourists who take off from New Mexico, saying such a bill is crucial to the future of the project.


  • Spaceport wants protections from tourist lawsuits

    Spaceport America officials are urging legislators to limit potential lawsuits from wealthy outer space tourists who take off from New Mexico, saying such a bill is crucial to the future of the project.


  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Making of a Patriot’

    In this tautly written account of one of the most dramatic moments in Benjamin Franklin's many-faceted life, there is enough to engage one's interest that a number of its imperfections can be overlooked.


  • Flames and smoke billow from a home in west Jackson, Miss., Tuesday evening, Nov. 13, 2012, after authorities say a small plane carrying three people crashed into the residence shortly after 5 p.m. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)

    3 pilots flying to safety meet die in Miss. crash

    Three pilots flying together to a federal safety conference died when their single-engine plane faltered in midair and crashed into a house that went up in flames.


  • Mississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91

    Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi native whose novel "Apostles of Light" was a 1973 National Book Award nominee, died Wednesday in Jackson. She was 91.


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