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Gun sales slowed in Mississippi in January based on federal background checks, though sellers say the decline is more a symptom of short supplies of firearms rather than waning demand. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama saw the largest declines in background checks from December to January, by about one-third. Nationwide, [...]

Even with the bad news this week that daily newspapers in New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville all will reduce their publications to three days a week, there was more good news out of the Warren Buffet camp. Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire [...]