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Songwriter Hank Cochran is recovering at a Nashville hospital following surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his pancreas and lymph node.

Songwriter Hank Cochran is recovering at a Nashville hospital following surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his pancreas and lymph node.

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head.

A basket full of Quiver River Aquaculture Inc., catfish are pulled from their pond near Moorhead, Miss., for transport to another farm.

Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head - another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops.

The national average price of gasoline has risen past the $4-per-gallon mark and there are few locales in the nation where the pain at the pumps is felt more deeply than in the more economically disadvantaged ...

“If they can find activities that are relatively short in duration, this helps them feel like they have some power over their lives. When things like this happen, one of the senses is that they have no control or power.”

The first step in emotional recovery after last Friday's storms is trying to return to normalcy, says Buddy Wagner, who heads the Mississippi College Counseling & Testing Center. via The Clarion-Ledger

“The industry is fundamentally unsound”

The U.S. catfish industry is at a crossroads, struggling to compete with cheaper imported fish while feed prices are hitting record highs. via Arkansas Online

While we are proud of the preservation of the Winterville Indian Mounds just nouth of Greenville, we should remember that an Indian civilization inhabited the entire Delta thousands of years ago. via Delta Democrat Times Online