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VICKSBURG, MS-- - The Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau has announced a new online sweepstakes that offers twice the fun. The Vicksburg Casino Getaways Sweepstakes will award two VIP vacation packages, ...

DEVENS - The voters from Ayer, Harvard and Shirley are likely headed for a so-called Super Town Meeting in late February or early March to vote on the controversial 246-unit affordable apartment project proposed for Vicksburg Square in Devens.

The seventh annual Vicksburg Ice Festival and Chili Cook-off on Saturday is still a go even without the snow, but there's a good chance the ice fishing contest is off the hook.

Vicksburg's new marketing and branding campaign will focus on the Mississippi River city as the "Key to the South."

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - Archaeologists have identified 13 unmarked, unrecorded graves at Vicksburg National Cemetery. The graves will be marked with yellow survey flags until permanent headstones bearing the word "Unknown" arrive.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - After more than three years and $8.6 million, a main corridor between downtown Vicksburg and Interstate 20 is about to reopen.

The National Park Service announced the final results of an 18-month study of unmarked and unrecorded burials in Vicksburg National Cemetery.

WLBT has obtained information about suggestive text messages from the mayor of Vicksburg to his former Chief of Staff, Kenya Burks. Burks is no longer on the job and has filed a federal lawsuit against her former boss.

As for the festival itself, the temperatures in the low to mid 40s were melting the two dozen or so ice sculptures around town. But the mild temperatures also drew hundreds to the event in downtown Vicksburg, with a record 11 area restaurants and businesses competing in the chili cook-off.

Ameristar Casino Hotel Vicksburg is hosting an on-site job fair from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 31.