Meridian Star AP Story Template 2012-02-10T17:37:56-06:00 urn:uuid:35e52d33-5cc7-4062-aa27-17c70a47bb62 Hard road for Mississippi to recover jobs By ALAN SAYRE urn:uuid:22aafafb-43db-4724-a7e7-c979f4201e8d 2010-12-31T06:00:00-06:00 <p> &#160;Struggling back from the Great Recession has been a hard road for Mississippi. And although there are bright spots in the works for 2011 and beyond, economic forecasts say the state&#8217;s recovery will be a yearslong process &#8212; provided another national slowdown is not in the works.</p> Sondra Brantley urn:uuid:ec7c798f-c8e8-4a02-824e-943ef7d4bfa9 2010-12-29T06:00:00-06:00 Jamal Thompson urn:uuid:3f586cc2-34e1-4a2e-b0c9-5bde4f656be5 2010-12-29T06:00:00-06:00 Earl D. Thomas urn:uuid:30b90da6-d446-4413-b2c3-188f58fc4ff5 2010-12-29T06:00:00-06:00 The Long Run By Trent Lott urn:uuid:fc4bc2cd-c2c7-4e2b-a905-93a3e69080ae 2007-11-04T01:46:00-05:00 Amtrak is improving, and we should keep that going by investing in it. Congress has made reforms to the nation’s national passenger rail line, and a record 26 million passengers rode the rails this year. Ticket revenues have increased by 11 percent, and the nation’s first high-speed rail corridor’s popularity is growing thanks to on-time performance pushing 90 percent. Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter in Texas urn:uuid:5d509395-e2b6-43e1-9870-42b01652eb5b 2006-02-13T07:52:00-06:00 WASHINGTON (AP) — The honor of hunting with the vice president of the United States turned into a medical emergency for a Texas attorney.