NetGrrl: Zeitgeist

Posted: 06/05/2006 07:00:04 [Link]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Skeletal remains found in a Mississippi state park seven months ago have been identified as those of a missing Kingman woman.

It took a confession from Sharon Miller’s roommate to Florida officials in late April to put an end to her family’s desperate search and to solve a mystery for Mississippi authorities.

Holmes County, Mississippii, Sheriff Willie March says Debby Arva told the Jacksonville, Florida police that she had killed someone in Mississippi.

Arva was arrested May first on a murder charge after leading investigators to the spot where the bones had been found last November. Authorities used D-N-A and dental records last week to identify the remains as Miller.

Police says Arva and Miller had lived together in a mobile home park in Kingman and then moved to the New Orleans area. However, police the two women evacuated to Memphis as Hurricane Rita threatened the area last September.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Hell, Mich., heats up for 6-6-6 party.
Some say day for devil; to locals, it’s for tourism

Associated Press

HELL - They’re planning a hot time Tuesday in Hell.

Tuesday bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance.

And there’s not a snowball’s chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.

Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town’s self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.

“I’ve got ‘666′ T-shirts and mugs. I’m only ordering 666 (of the items) so once they’re gone, that’s it,” said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. “Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you’ve celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell.” [more...]

[Vic's note: those of us who didn't suffer the immediate and long-lasting destruction tend to forget all the little things that are still missing from Katrina victim's lives.]

Roll ‘em: Moviegoers excited by theater’s reopening

Monday, June 05, 2006
By JOHN SURRATT

The Mississippi Press

GAUTIER — Steve Richards peered through the spaces in the gate blocking the entrance to the soon-to-open Ritz Theater in the Singing River Mall.

“I’m glad to see it opening back up,” Richards, who works at Sears, said. ” Now I won’t have to go to D’Iberville to watch a movie.”

Closed since Hurricane Katrina, the former Village Theater in the mall was bought by its former manager, Carolyn Gaffney, and her daughter, Kristy. It is expected to reopen Friday at 1 p.m.

The theater’s new name brings back a bit of Pascagoula’s history, when the former Ritz Theater at the intersection of Pascagoula Street and Watts Avenue showed films to area residents. The building that held the theater is now a law office.

News of the theater’s reopening was greeted with joy by a number of people who were at the mall Sunday afternoon. [More...]

By KURT MOORE
The Marion Star

Editor’s note: The subjects in this weekly series are chosen as we go about the business of reporting local events. Their stories have everything to do with how we live our lives.MARION - Emilee Lamb-Hart and other students of Krista Gerhart’s fourth- and fifth-grade class had read and heard about the devastation that Hurricane Katrina left behind. A trip to the affected region offered Emilee, 10, the kind of first-hand look that one can’t get from just reading books.

While she couldn’t take her classmates with her, she found a way to include them in the experience.

Emilee traveled with her mom, Pam Lamb-Hart, and 24 other members of Mount Gilead’s Trinity United Methodist Church in April on a mission trip to hurricane-struck D’Iberville, Miss. [More ...]

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

1920s saw tourism boom; 2006 sees Tivoli’s doom

June 04, 2006