Leaders attend annual New Year's prayer breakfast
New Year's Day for some city and county leaders is now synonymous with the Annual City Councilman Myron Lowery's Prayer Breakfast.
Lowery started the event 22 years ago to help bring politics and prayer together to fashion a better community.
The gathering of local politicians and the people in an atmosphere of
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Chilly Mud Island water skiers ring in 2013
Near the banks of the mighty Mississippi, crazier words may never have been spoken on a New Year's Day.
"It's actually a beautiful day to ski," one unnamed skier uttered.
The water temperatures by some bystanders were estimated to be at 48-50 F. Thirty skiers gathered on Mud Island for the Collierville Ski
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A giant guitar that was supposed to drop down a pole to ring in 2011 in Nashville got stuck 10 feet above the zero mark.
The following year, a lighted musical note did not even make it that far.
So it must have been a relief to the "Bash on Broadway" organizers at the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau when this
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - North Little Rock has sworn in its first new mayor in more than 20 years.
Joe Smith won the city's top post in a runoff election against former state Sen. Tracy Steele. Smith takes over for outgoing mayor Pat Hays, who has served as the city's leader since 1989.
Hays decided last year not to seek another term as mayor.
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