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Don't call it false advertising. The same flashing Temple Baptist Church billboard that invited people to its annual patriotic celebration and community picnic also gave its uninviting temperature:103 degrees.

Temp: 85.0 F Heat Index: 85 F Meridian, Key Field, MS 12-year-old Seth Harris has died.

It was a landslide victory in the race for mayor in the city of Sandersville. When the final vote was counted, Walter "Buzz" Jack had defeated opponent Jimmy Hill by a 157 to 42 margin, or 79 percent to 21 percent of the 199 total votes cast.

It is an encouraging story of faith and a family's fight to save a dying child. Seth Harris is suffering from complications of a bone marrow transplant and Wednesday was awaiting the arrival of an overseas experimental drug that could prolong his life.