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In case you missed it, Marshall Ramsey’s year-in-review.

The Laurel Leader Call took the wraps off its new Oak Street Magazine just in time for Christmas.

The St. Louis Dispatch, via MiamiHerald.com, spills some ink over Tunica. Apparently the newspaper just discovered the landscape of the small river town was changed significantly by the arrival of casinos and other developments…starting nearly 16 years go.

The 5th Circuit Appeals Court has dismissed a suit brought against a Madison attorney for legal advertisements his firm placed two years ago soliciting Mississippi residents to join a possible class action civil case against Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.

Jeffrey Peyton, publisher for the last three-and-a-half years in Columbia, has departed the semi-weekly newspaper for the Moulton Advertiser in Alabama, which was recently purchased the family owners of the Decauter Daily.

Peyton is succeeded at the Columbian-Progress by Julie Johnson, longtime advertising director, who was recently named publisher of the 5,000-circ Marion County newspaper.

From The AP: The family that owns Landmark Communications will announce as early as Thursday that it plans to sell the company, which owns the Weather Channel and nine daily newspapers, according to its flagship newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot.

Community newspaper publisher LCNI, which owns the New Albany Gazette, which recently unveiled a new Website design, is also owned by Landmark.

The Weather Channel alone could fetch as much as $5 billion from salivating media conglomerates.