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So yesterday I went to to O.E.C Japanese Express that just open here in Grenada. 
This is the first Japanese restaurant Grenada has had so I had to try it out. I order the Titanic Roll. 
It was EPIC!!!!!! It was the best thing I have ever eaten. Not only was that good the fried rice was really good.
So if you’re in the Grenada area and haven’t tried O.E.C. Japanese Express go and try. 
It’s right next to Game Stop.
One of my favorite events during this past school year was going to the B.B. King Museum. When we first arrived the museum didn’t look like your typical museum. That’s because it was the warehouse were B.B. King first got started. One part of the museum is 108 years old!Before we started the tour we watched a movie about B.B. King. Then we started he tour. For a class assignment we had to do a scavenger hunt. We learned many things from doing that assignment. One of the ex-bits I like the most was this bus that we could watch another movie about B.B.. Another ex-bit was a guitar made of bottle caps. Then afterwards we shopped at the gift store then left for Crystals restaurant. The food there amazing! After we left there we left for Grenada. While we were heading back we had the chance to see on of the places that was in the help.
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=16271
Dispatch Staff Report
March 27, 2012 3:23:48 PM
The third suspect in Saturday’s fatal shooting of a Mississippi State University turned himself into law enforcement authorities today in Florida.
Trent Deundra Crump, 21, of Flowood, surrendered to authorities, after investigators with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations released information about his travel.
MSU officials subsequently issued a public call for help in locating Crump, who now is being held by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department in Gainesville, Fla. on an outstanding capital murder warrant.
The two other suspects –Dontae Harvey and Mason Perry Jones, 21, of Jackson — Monday were arrested and charged with capital murder in the death of John Sanderson, 21, who recently transferred to MSU from Holmes Community College.
“The dedication and hard work of our campus police and the extraordinary cooperation of assisting law enforcement agencies have resulted in the swift apprehension of those we believe are responsible for this tragic incident,” said MSU President Dr. Mark Keenum.
Sanderson was shot multiple times outside a dorm room on the first floor of Evans Hall, Saturday night.
Police have not disclosed a possible motive for the crime, but MSU spokeswoman Maridith Geuder said the sale of a controlled substance is the underlying charge in the capital murder charge.
Sanderson, who lived in Rice Hall, probably was “visiting” Evans Hall the night of the shooting, said MSU Vice President of Student Affairs Bill Kibler.
Evans Hall, one of the older dormitories on campus, is arranged as a quadrangle. The first floor, where the incident occurred, opens into a courtyard. The three higher floors have balconies overlooking the courtyard. Evans Hall, which holds about 300 male students, has two main entrances — the north entrance accesses the first floor and the south entrance accesses the second floor, which features a game room and office, along with residents’ rooms.
“This is the first time in our school’s history that such a tragic event has occurred involving a student being shot on campus,” Keenum said Sunday. “Our campus is known as a safe place, and I want to assure students, parents, faculty and staff that it continues to be safe.”
Entry to dormitory rooms is gained through three levels requiring key-card access — at exterior entrances, entrances to wings or floors and at residents’ rooms.
However, the key-card access system was not activated at the time of the shooting, which occurred before 10 p.m. And, Kibler noted, non-residents can be brought into the dorm by residents, at any hour.
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http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120326/NEWS90/120329766/-1/NEWSMAP
DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — A person of interest was in custody Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a student at Mississippi State University.
Mason Perry Jones was arrested Sunday night at a bus station in Memphis, The Clarion-Ledger reported. He was being held Monday in DeSoto County, Miss., according to WREG-TV.
School officials said 21-year-old John Sanderson, of Madison, Miss., was shot at around 10:00pm Saturday at Evans Hall, a residence for 288 male students on the northwest side of the Starkville campus.
Three male suspects fled the scene, and Sanderson died later Saturday at Oktibbeha County Hospital.
Police are still looking for two men, WREG reported.
A weapon was recovered from the Mississippi State campus after the shooting, according to Bill Kibler, vice president of student affairs.
Dr. Mark Keenum, president of the university, said the shooting appeared to be an isolated incident.
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=16254
Slim Smith, Dispatch Correspondent
March 26, 2012 12:59:20 PM
STARKVILLE – An arrest was made Sunday in connection with the weekend fatal shooting of a Mississippi State University student.
MSU Police Chief Georgia Lindley today confirmed Mason Perry Jones was arrested for the death of MSU student John Sanderson, 21, of Madison, who died of multiple gun-shot wounds following a shooting at Evans Hall dormitory shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday.
Jones was arrested in Memphis about 7 p.m. Sunday, by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. Jones was arrested on an outstanding armed robbery warrant out of Jackson, which was not related to Saturday’s shooting, Lindley said, noting UPD was informed by the marshal’s service on Sunday afternoon an arrest was imminent and informed of the arrest, as soon as it was made. Though he has been arrested, charges have yet to be brought against Jones.
“The U.S. Marshal’s Service was one of many agencies that have volunteered to help us in the investigation,” Lindley said. “They came in (Sunday) afternoon and began working the case. We are very grateful for all of the assistance. Obviously, this is a very important matter to us.”
Lindley would not confirm Jones is the primary suspect and would not elaborate on whether police now know the identities of two other men sought in connection with the shooting. The UPD has not yet interviewed Jones and Lindley would not comment on whether other agencies have interviewed Jones, as part of the investigation.
Witnesses reported three black males were involved in the shooting and left the scene in a late-model blue Crown Victoria.
Police recovered a handgun on campus early Sunday morning. Surveillance tapes from cameras at the entrances of Evans Hall were being reviewed as a part of the investigation, said Bill Kibler, Vice President of Student Affairs at MSU.
“Our goal now is to identify the suspects and bring them into custody immediately,” Kibler said Sunday. He declined to reveal a possible motive for the shooting, but said police had information from witnesses who “knew what was taking place.”
Evans Hall, one of the older dormitories on campus, is arranged as a quadrangle. The first floor, where the incident occurred, opens into a courtyard. The higher floors have balconies overlooking the courtyard. Evans Hall has two main entrances — the north entrance accesses the first floor and the south entrance accesses the second floor, which features a game room and office, along with residents’ rooms.
Kibler said the shooting took place outside one of the first floor dorm rooms and 24 students subsequently were relocated from their first-floor rooms to preserve the integrity of the crime scene.
“This is the first time in our school’s history that such a tragic event has occurred involving a student being shot on campus,” MSU President Dr. Mark Keenum said Sunday. “Our campus is known as a safe place, and I want to assure students, parents, faculty and staff that it continues to be safe.”
Entry to dormitory rooms is gained through three levels requiring key-card access — at exterior entrances, entrances to wings or floors and at residents’ rooms.
However, the key-card access system was activated at the time of the incident, which occurred before 10 p.m. And, Kibler noted, non-residents can be brought into the dorm by residents, at any hour.
A deadly shooting spree on the campus of Virginia Tech in 2007 – when almost two hours passed before students/staff/faculty were notified that a shooting had taken place – led to changes on campuses across the country to get the word out more quickly.
Ben Grace, an MSU freshman who lives in Evans Hall, Sunday said he received a torrent of text messages after the incident.
“I was getting all these texts and I’m thinking, “Why is everyone texting me?” Then I got a call from a friend and he told me what happened. I just grabbed my laptop and went over to stay with a friend at South Hall.”
Another Evans Hall resident, Phillip Bajoras, said he walked into the North Entrance at about 10 p.m. Saturday.
“There were a lot of people standing around and I was wondering what was going on,” he recalled. “Somebody was saying somebody got stabbed. Somebody else said he was shot, but nobody said they heard any gunshots.”
Barojas said he looked over the balcony and could see the victim, who was being attended to by “a couple of people” just outside one of the rooms while police were clearing the courtyard.
Having recently transferred from Holmes Community College, Sanderson was in his first semester at MSU.
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http://news.yahoo.com/arab-strongman-gadhafi-death-era-passes-151535237.html
CAIRO (AP) — He often looked like a comical buffoon, standing before audiences, bedecked in colorful robes, spouting words that most of the world considered nonsense.
Yet the death of Moammar Gadhafi was a milestone in modern Arab history, in some ways more significant than the overthrow of lesser autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt.
Gadhafi was the last of the old-style Arab strongmen — the charismatic, nationalist revolutionaries who rose to power in the 1950s and 1960s, promising to liberate the masses from the shackles of European colonialism and the stultifying rule of the Arab elite that the foreigners left behind after World War II.
He was swept aside by a new brand of revolutionary — the leaderless crowds organized by social media, fed up with the oppressive past, keenly aware that the rest of the world has left them behind and convinced that they can build a better society even if at the moment, they aren’t sure how.
Gadhafi was the last of a generation of Arab leaders such as Gamal Abdel-Nasser of Egypt, Hafez Assad of Syria and Saddam Hussein of Iraq who emerged from poverty, rising to the pinnacle of power either through the ranks of the military or the disciplined, conspiratorial world of underground political organizations.
None of the latter crop of Arab autocrats, including Assad’s son Bashar, Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh and even Egypt’s colorless, ousted president Hosni Mubarak, could rival them in their heyday in terms of charisma, flair, stature and power.
Their model was Nasser, the towering champion of Arab unity who ousted Western-backed King Farouk in 1952 and inspired Arab peoples with fiery speeches broadcast by Egyptian radio from Iraq to Mauritania.
But Nasser’s dreams of Arab unity and social revival crumbled in defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, when Israel seized East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. Nasser died three years later, and the fellow strongmen left behind led their countries instead into a political swamp of corruption, cronyism and dictatorship now challenged by the Arab Spring.
The hallmark of the Arab strongman was unquestioned power, the use of state media to promote a larger than life image and a ruthless security network that stifled even a whiff of dissent. That worked in an age before the Internet and global satellite television which opened the eyes of the strongman’s followers to a world without secret police and economic systems run by the leader’s family and cronies.
The Arab political transformation is far from complete. Autocratic rulers are facing challenges from their own people in Yemen and Syria. Bahrain’s Shiite majority is pressing the Sunni monarchy for reform. Rulers in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are maneuvering to contain the Arab Spring.
Iraq is struggling to build a democracy eight years after American-led arms brought down Saddam’s rule.
With Gadhafi’s passing, however, a milestone has been passed. The future belongs to a different style of ruler, whoever it may be.
It may be difficult to imagine that the Gadhafi of his final years — with his flamboyant robes, dark and curly wigs and sagging, surgically altered face — was a trim, handsome, vigorous 27-year-old when he came to power as a strong and vigorous leader. Over the years he had become a caricature figure associated with grandiose dreams such as a “United States of Africa” or seizing all of Israel and sending Jews “back to Europe.”
Even when he was younger, eccentricity was the mark of Gadhafi’s public persona.
A generation ago, President Ronald Reagan described him as the “mad dog of the Middle East,” and his fellow Arab leaders such as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat considered him a dangerous megalomaniac.
Journalists covered his speeches and international visits primarily for amusement.
Images of Gadhafi’s final moments — toupee gone, terrified, confused, powerless in the grip of men who may be about to kill him — make the ousted tyrant appear more pitiable than powerful.
All that was far from his image when he and his comrades toppled a Western-backed monarchy in 1969 in a bloodless coup, promising to transform his poor, backwater country into a modern state.
Promising a new era for his people, Gadhafi closed a U.S. air base, forced international oil companies to hand over most of their profits from Libyan oil to the Libyan state and shook the world with his unabashed support for terrorist or insurgent movements in Northern Ireland, Palestine, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Oil gave him a reach beyond his sparsely populated desert land and enabled him to pursue his revolutionary dreams.
In the 1980s, the lobbies of Tripoli’s few hotels were populated by representatives of what the West considered the most dangerous groups on Earth — stiff North Koreans wearing lapel buttons of their leader Kim Il-Sung, Palestinian extremists huddled over cups of sweet tea, European anarchists and revolutionaries — all come to town to seek the oil-fueled largesse of the “Brother Leader.”
While insisting that Libya was the freest nation on Earth, Gadhafi ruthlessly suppressed dissent, dispatched agents to assassinate his opponents abroad and drove thousands of Libyans into exile.
It all came crashing down in the final battle in his hometown of Sirte. A man who came to power as an Arab revolutionary and self-styled leader of the oppressed and downtrodden died a brutal and inglorious death at the hands of the people he purported to lead.
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Eds: Robert H. Reid is Middle East regional editor for The Associated Press and has reported from the Middle East since 1978.
Murder suspect Dillon Seals was caught today about 12:15 and is now in custody at the Grenada County Jail. Seals was found in the attic of a house on Highway 8 East near the former Dixie Auto Auction
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