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June 20, 2008 -
Helena-West Helena is an east Arkansas Delta community going through hard times. The seat of Phillips County, one of the state's poorest counties, it got its hyphenated name two years ago after two cash-strapped towns merged in hopes of improving the local economy, which has struggled since the closing of the Mohawk Rubber Co. back in the 1970s.
June 20, 2008 -
Today kicks off the 76th annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Miami, the biggest gathering of city leaders in the country. Democratic nominee Barack Obama is slated to the crowd over the weekend, as is Bill Clinton.
June 19, 2008 -
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finally told they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.
June 19, 2008 -
President Bush echoed the call of Republican presidential candidate John McCain this week in calling for an end to the 27-year-old federal ban on offshore oil drilling along the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
June 19, 2008 -
Blackwater Worldwide CEO Erik Prince, President Gary Jackson, and spokesperson Anne Tyrrell traveled from the company's compound in Moyock, N.C.