Flags are at half staff at the Bruce National Guard Armory after the death of 223rd guardsman James Harley "Flash" Gordon in an automobile accident Wednesday afternoon.

Retired Mississippi journalism educator and newspaper publisher S. Gale Denley of Bruce died of complications from kidney disease on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. He was 72.

“This was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Howard Morgan said. “I think we needed to keep it all together. I’ve thought about it a lot and I couldn’t come to a decision to go anywhere else.”

The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday approved its largest electric rate increase in more than 30 years, citing skyrocketing fuel costs and a three-year drought that has sharply reduced its ability to generate cheap hydroelectric power.

Ten years ago, Bernard Sykes was heralded as one of the state’s “Dandy Dozen” football players. The dominating 6’2” 250 pound DE/LB verbally committed to Ole Miss before ultimately attending Northwest Community College on a football scholarship. He helped lead the Rangers to a national championship in 1999, but that’s when the good times ended. Sykes spent the next eight years in prison on an armed robbery charge.