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Drivers disagree on cause of wreck
By CHARLIE SMITH
Fri,09/29/17-11:20AM , 6,606 Reads
A rural mail carrier and auto parts store employee collided Friday morning just off U.S. 98 in Columbia, but there were no serious injuries.
The wreck happened before 10:30 in front of Pearl River Valley Opportunity Inc., and the two drivers offered differing accounts of what happened.
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Opioid addiction on increase
By CHARLIE SMITH
Thu,09/28/17-12:00AM , 7,284 Reads
A fellow veteran Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agent called John Harless recently in tears.

“I just left a house,” the agent said. “The woman is seven months pregnant; she’s laying in the bathroom dead with a needle in her arm. Her husband and her 3-year-old are standing outside the door. They had no idea she had this problem.”
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Internet costs us more than it helps
By CHARLIE SMITH
Wed,09/27/17-3:24PM , 25,566 Reads
It wastes our time. It rots our children’s brains. It robs our local businesses. It puts down our defenses to allow foreign countries to meddle in our elections. It ruins families with pornography. It gives hate groups like ISIS a platform to recruit within our nation.
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Sadly, guns in church make sense
By CHARLIE SMITH
Wed,09/27/17-3:22PM , 23,429 Reads
A Mississippi law passed in 2016 allowing guns in churches received national attention and was mocked by many who saw it as an unnecessary extension of 2nd Amendment rights to what should be a place of peace.

But, unfortunately, events this weekend confirmed why it is wise to have responsible gun owners carrying weapons in the pews.
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