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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) Leaders of a Mississippi county are honoring a high school homecoming queen who gave her crown to a friend whose mother had just died of cancer. Forrest County Sheriff Charlie Sims presented Covington a citizenship award, and the county Board of Supervisors voted to pay her community college tuition.