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Although Mississippi could avert the crux of the national housing crisis, the number of properties beleaguered by foreclosure filings in the year of 2010 climbed up more than double from a couple of years earlier as stated by a national tracking firm on Thursday.

On top of that foreclosure action surged in the state during the later part of the year.

Two sisters from the state of Mississippi, who are currently serving life sentences for an armed robbery that they had committed almost two-decades ago in the year 1993, would finally be able to breathe fresh air. Apparently, the Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour has suspended their sentences for an indefinite period of time.

About 20% of the kids in Mississippi are obese, a new government study has found. On the contrary, Oregon kids are at the bottom of the obesity tally. Also, their leanness is a mystery for the health officials, who would be more than happy in solving it to meet federal goals for childhood obesity.

It has been reported that on Saturday, a cyclone, almost a mile broad tore via central Mississippi.

According to state authorities, 10 people died, counting three children, and injuring dozens more.

With two kidney recipients having contracted a brain infection from the organ donor - a child at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson - the health officials are looking to re- assess their policies pertaining to donors suffering from certain neurological conditions. Thus far, the decision about the donors rests entirely with the individual transplant centers.

With Georgia and Mississippi states having completed their 'sales tax holiday' last weekend, at least 13 other US states have geared up for the characteristic 'windfall' of the tax-free back-to-school items - ranging from clothing and shoes to school supplies and computers.

According to a U.S. government study 35% of black Americans were obese, leading ahead of other major racial or ethnic groups.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that 29% of Hispanics and 24% of whites are obese and overall 26% of U.S. adults are obese.

According to a recent report adult obesity was shown to have risen in 31 states to over 25 % and correspondingly the childhood obesity also showed an increase wherein they have more than tripled since 1980.

Mississippi has topped the charts for the fifth year in a row as the state with the highest obesity among both children and adults.

The latest annual rankings by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit public health group have shown that in 31 states more than one in four adults are obese.