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Robert D. Church Jr. has earned the designation certified forensic accountant from the American College of Forensic Examiners International. Church also is certified in financial forensics from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

The bankruptcy of Little Rock-based Affiliated Foods Southwest Inc. has wiped out about $34 million in investments held by more than 600 employees or members of the cooperative.

New hope for the economy just gave the stock market its best July in 20 years. Investors placed big bets over the last month that the profit machine at U.S. companies will continue to rev higher and that the longest recession since World War II is finally easing its grip. If that turns out to be wrong, the huge gains of July mean there will be an even bigger price to pay if companies don’t deliver.

Vicksburg Area Job Fair: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Vicksburg Convention Center, 1600 Mulberry St., Vicksburg.

MANILA (Reuters) – Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, whose ouster of one of the 20th Century’s most corrupt dictators made her a global icon of democracy, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer. She was 76.

The University of Memphis will receive a $2 million Defense Department earmark to train nursing students to treat battlefield injuries and another $1.5 million to develop sensors for detecting battlefield dangers.

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in the newly renovated Hancock County, Mississippi, courthouse.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats pushed forward healthcare reform legislation in a key congressional panel on Friday but the battle over President Barack Obama’s top domestic policy goal looked ready to move outside Washington as lawmakers prepared for a month-long break.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bombs near five Shi’ite mosques killed at least 28 people across Baghdad on Friday, police said, and Iraqis blamed local forces now taking over from U.S. soldiers for failing to protect them.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats pushed healthcare reform legislation forward in a key congressional panel on Friday but the battle over President Barack Obama’s top policy goal looked ready to move outside Washington as lawmakers prepared for a month-long break.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A second New Jersey mayor and a state assemblyman who were both arrested in a federal corruption probe resigned Friday under pressure from voters and the state’s governor.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The deepest U.S. recession since the Great Depression showed signs of easing in the second quarter, buttressing hopes for a second-half recovery, though it may be anemic as consumers are still strapped for cash.

MANILA (Reuters) – Former President Corazon Aquino, whose “people power” revolution swept dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer, her family said. She was 76.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bombs near five Shi’ite mosques killed at least 28 people across Baghdad on Friday, police said, and Iraqis blamed local forces now taking over from U.S. soldiers for failing to protect them.

WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress moved to triple the funding for the government’s successful “Cash for Clunkers” auto rebate program, which has brought car buyers back into showrooms and raised the outlook for an industry beset by abysmal sales, bankruptcies and job cuts.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday began distributing millions of dollars to help cash-strapped states respond to the H1N1 pandemic amid a deep economic recession that has decimated local health budgets.

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

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The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others–as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders–serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as the rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few–as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men–serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away," but leave that office to his dust at least:

Henry David Thoreau

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, a leading force for U.S. healthcare reform, said on Friday he has prostate cancer but still plans to run for re-election next year.

DETROIT (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said on Friday that it is recalling another 440,000 vehicles — including some of its best-selling Accord and Civic models — for a potentially lethal airbag defect.