Monday, June 17 2013 10:36 AM EDT2013-06-17 14:36:40 GMT
FT MYERS, FL (WBBH/CNN) - Video footage showed a Florida teen swimming with a 30 foot whale shark. Chris Kreis spends most of his time working in the family business. "I started when I was 3-years-old,"More >>
A Florida teen was caught on camera swimming with a 30 foot whale shark.More >>
Monday, June 17 2013 11:24 AM EDT2013-06-17 15:24:53 GMT
Mississippi sheriffs can ban people from openly carrying guns into courthouses, according to state Attorney General, Jim Hood. Hood released a document in anticipation of the law that starts July 1 withMore >>
Mississippi sheriffs can ban people from openly carrying guns into courthouses, according to state Attorney General Jim Hood.More >>
Saturday, June 15 2013 8:33 PM EDT2013-06-16 00:33:48 GMT
Hundreds of individuals who never graduated from high school had a second chance to walk across the stage on Saturday. The Mississippi National Guard Youth Challenge Academy had their graduation exerciseMore >>
The Mississippi National Guard Youth Challenge Academy Class 38 graduate with 218 cadets on Saturday. More >>
Friday, June 14 2013 11:43 AM EDT2013-06-14 15:43:50 GMT
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The surveyor for Greene County has been arrested for crimes in Perry County. The Attorney General's office says Billy Eugene Brewer, 69, was arrested at his home. Brewer faces four counts of false pretenseMore >>
The Attorney General's office says Billy Eugene Brewer, 69, was arrested at his home. Brewer faces four counts of false pretense and four counts of fraudulent use of identity.More >>
Parents desperate to get their troubled sleepers to bed are turning to synthetic melatonin, which is a supplement sold over the counter. But expert warn it could have adverse effects on child development.More >>
Many adults turn to sleep aids like melatonin, but now more parents are giving them to their kids, too. We talked to physicians to see what they had to say about how it could affect your child's development. More >>
1870: Hiram Revels Becomes First Black U.S. SenatorMore >>
February 26, 1877
Political Deal Brings End to Reconstruction
Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York won the popular election for president in 1876. But Republican Rutherford B. Hayes challenged the electoral college returns from four states, and it was left to Congress to determine the winner.
At a conference at the Wormley Hotel in Washington, D.C. on this date in 1877, Hayes declared that he would withdraw federal troops from the states of the former confederacy if he became president. That offer gained Hayes support from southern Democrats in Congress, and he was declared president-elect.
True to his word, Hayes withdrew federal troops and 1877 marked the end of the Reconstruction period. Southern states began adopting poll taxes and other methods of denying blacks the right to vote, initiating the era of Jim Crow laws that remained on the books in many places until the 1960s.
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