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Paris L. Gray, a 12-year photographer at the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, N.J., known professionally for his compelling coverage of sensitive events and personally for his unique style of yellow-tinted glasses and eclectic hats, died Sunday morning after a battle with cancer.

Gray was one of the legions of journalists who visited and worked in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the state last year…

Jim Cortese, a retired Commercial Appeal editor and columnist, died Sept. 20 at Hillcrest-South Assisted Living in Knoxville. He was 89. He began his career as a journalist in Holly Springs…

Marty Russell, columnist for the Daily Journal in Tupelo:

“I got one of those phone calls Tuesday that every adviser to a college, student-run newspaper dreads and all of us have to deal with on a regular basis. The gist of it was, ‘Why can’t you do something about what these students are saying about us in the newspaper?’”…