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IN NATIONAL HEADLINES
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide. The comments from Gen. David Petraeus followed a protest yesterday by hundreds of Afghans over the plans by Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Tropical Storm Hermine rolled into south Texas early this morning. Hermine made landfall in northeastern Mexico late yesterday and crossed into Texas within hours, bringing with it winds of up to 65 mph (100 kph). It moved on a path similar to the one Hurricane Alex took in late June, and like that Category 1 storm, threatened to dump up to a foot of rain in some areas and cause flash flooding.
IN LOCAL HEADLINES
Some school district superintendents are crying foul over some state leaders' plans to squirrel away $127 million in Medicaid stimulus money instead of doling it out this year. A large portion of the money was to be used to help offset cuts to public schools, but educators learned last week that Gov. Haley Barbour and some House and Senate leaders want to put the dollars in Mississippi's rainy day fund.
Jackson youths will have to call it an early night if the City Council approves a new curfew at its meeting this morning.. Under the proposed new law, children ages 17 and under would have to be home by 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and by midnight on Friday and Saturday. The new statute also makes it a crime for children ages 5-17 to loiter during school hours. The new curfew could take effect within a month.
IN SPORTS
FOOTBALL SCORES
MSU OVER MEMPHIS 49-7
SOUTH CAROLINA STOMPS USM 41-13
OLE MISS LOSES IN DOUBLE OVER TIME TO JACKSONVILLE ST. 49-48
Darelle Revis is back with Jets, but It’s going to cost them. The deal includes $32 million in guarantees, including $7.5 million in total 2010 compensation, according to league sources. It culminated a seven-month odyssey that began when the Jets told Revis after the season they wanted to rework his contract, and included two secret negotiation sessions at the Roscoe Diner in upstate New York.
Now the Jets get back to football after what Revis described as an eye-opening experience. He was surprised to see "how nasty it can get."
A big contract can ease the nasty.
IN MUSIC
Duff McKagan's run as Jane's Addiction's bassist is over after just five months. The band announced the split on Monday saying, "We wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record. We love the songs we worked on with him -- and the gigs were a blast -- but musically we were all headed in different directions. From here Duff is off to work on his own stuff so we wish him all the best." McKagan is about to start a new album with his own band Loaded.
Corey Taylor's book Seven Deadly Sins will publish on March 1st. The Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman tells his story by using examples from his life of each of the biblical seven deadly sins. Taylor says he's "very proud" that he didn't use a ghostwriter and penned the entire book himself.
Stone Sour's new album, Audio Secrecy, is in stores today.
Nikki Sixx's has a new book in the works, a follow-up to The Heroin Diaries. This Is Gonna Hurt is set to be published on March 22nd. It mixes photos that the Motley Crue bassist has taken over the years with the stories behind them.
Sixx and Sixx A.M. are recording an album with some songs inspired by the photos in the book.
Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro will be honored at PETA's 30th Anniversary Gala and Humanitarian Awards on September 25th at the Palladium in Hollywood. 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin will host the event. Navarro appears nude in a new PETA ad campaign called "Ink, Not Mink."
According to Church of England priest Reverend Rachel Mann, Christianity can learn a lot from Black Sabbath and heavy metal music. She says, "Since Black Sabbath effectively created it in 1969...heavy metal has been cast as dumb, crass and, on occasions, satanic -- music hardly fit for intelligent debate, let alone theological reflection. Yet, as both priest and metal music fan, it strikes me that the Church, especially in these agonized times, has a serious gospel to learn from this darkest and heaviest music," especially the genre's ability to deal with violence and death. "[It] seems to offer its fans a space to accept others in a way that shames many Christians." |
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