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NEW ORLEANS — A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast in coming days to test the enormous levees lining the Mississippi River on its course through the Deep South, adding another element of danger to a region already raked by deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms.

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Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is cutting its sales and earnings forecasts for the current quarter, saying phone shipments are going to be fewer than expected.

The stock plunged 15 percent on the news.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) – The death toll this week from tornadoes and severe storms pummeling the South rose to 25 people and the nasty weather is not yet over, emergency officials and weather forecasters said on Wednesday.

Governors in Alabama, Arkansas and [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration is releasing President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer announced Wednesday.

Obama will discuss the decision to release the certificate Wednesday morning, the White House announced.

“This whole birther debate has been really bad for the Republican Party,” Pfeiffer said. But the discussion is “crowding [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – At a time when many disabled children were sent to institutions, Snow decided to keep her daughter Valerie Rose at home and care for the child herself. Snow abandoned music for a while and entered into ill-fated business decisions in the quest to stay solvent enough to take care [...]

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Another round of severe storms is predicted for tonight including the potential for long track torandoes and severe thunderstorms along and north of Interstate 20.

An Outbreak of severe Thunderstorms, Incl the Potential For strong, Long Track tornadoes, May from the Arklatex Into the Tennessee Valley tonight Into Wed.

This Outbreak of Severe storms May Impact [...]

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To prepare for expected flash flooding, about 1,000 people were evacuated Monday. A total of 59 people were rescued from homes and cars within a 90-minute period Monday night, said Poplar Bluff Police Captain Mike McClain.

McClain said the levee along the river has been sandbagged to plug overflows in the city limits.

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(Reuters) – Tornadoes and floods, which killed seven people in Arkansas and left thousands without power, threatened at least two more days of destruction, weather forecasters said on Tuesday.

“Tuesday and Wednesday will be particularly bad,” warned Meteorologist Dan Kottlowski on AccuWeather.com.

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Nicolas Cage, the Oscar-winning star of “Leaving Las Vegas,” bought a seven-bedroom home with a panoramic view of the city’s casino-lined Strip in 2006 for $8.5 million. By January 2010, it was in foreclosure.

The next owner, who property records show paid $4.2 million, has put the house on the market [...]

Republican Haley Barbour said on Monday that he won’t be a presidential candidate in the 2012 election.

For the last few months, Mississippi’s governor had made several trips to speak to voters in the nation’s early primary states.

Barbour had said he was considering a run for president, but wouldn’t make his final decision until after the [...]

The new deaths come days after the worst bloodshed since unrest began. At least 95 people were reported killed across Syria on Friday and a further 12 on Saturday, as mourners came under fire.

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William Eggleston’s 1974 film Stranded In Canton provides a rare behind the scenes look at the bohemian lifestyle of his circle of friends in Greenwood and Sumner, MS, Memphis, and New Orleans in the 1970’s. A Paris Review review article in 2010 tells about some of the people who were closest to Eggleston and are [...]

AP – Syrian security forces fired on funeral processions that drew tens of thousands Saturday, one day after the bloodiest crackdown so far in the uprising against President Bashar Assad. The shootings pushed the two-day death toll to more than 120 and two lawmakers and a religious leader resigned in disgust over the killings.

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AP – Yemen’s embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.

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AP – The United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don’t want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far apart on how to tame the deficit, the unthinkable is suddenly being pondered.

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AP – Heavy fighting raged anew in Misrata and killed 24 people Saturday as Moammar Gadhafi’s forces gave up more ground inside Libya’s third-largest city. The U.S. said its first Predator drone attack in the country destroyed a government rocket launcher that had menaced civilians in the western city.

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AP – With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.

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