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Metropolitan BancGroup Inc., holding company for Metropolitan Bank, ended the year with its 13th consecutive quarter and fourth consecutive year of increased earnings, the bank, co-headquartered in Ridgeland and Memphis, said in a press statement. The privately held Metropolitan Bank reported pre-tax, full-year earnings of approximately $5.02 million for the year ending Dec. 31, 2012. [...]

The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Jackson is full of stories — and now it has a new way to tell them. The first of four new kiosks is operational, and three more are scheduled to be online by the end of next week, said Rick Cleveland, the museum’s executive director. The [...]