By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

A Yazoo County family who discovered their horse dead from a gunshot wound to the head is offering a reward for information on the shooter.
David and Kim Woods were devastated when they found their horse dead on their Bentonia land on Oct. 19.
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Radio talk show host Kim Wade speaks with supporters of the Bentonia Lighted Cross Project fundraiser Saturday at Bentonia Baptist Church. Wade, radio DJ Scott Steele and Herald Publisher Jason Patterson judged the barbecue contest in which Glen Cleveland was named the winner. Many plates were sold to support the effort to erect lighted crosses on private property in Bentonia.

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A year after the incident, a Yazoo County man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of his wife.
A Yazoo County grand jury indicted Michael Bates for manslaughter in the death of his wife, Kelley Bates.
According to the indictment, Michael Bates struck his wife with his vehicle and killed her by culpable negligence. Bates drove her to the emergency room that night.
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Sue White (left) hugs her daughter Georgia at the survivor’s tent sponsored by the Yazoo County Health Network during A Walk Thru the Zoo. She has inspired many with her positive attitude while battling cancer.By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

“I am going to get to the other side of this. I have got to do this well.”
That is what Sue White tells herself everyday. Those simple words offer her hope, encouragement and comfort.
When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she had no words. Cancer didn’t happen to people like her.
But now those words pull her though the darkness, and things are looking brighter.
“I really feel like we are in the third quarter of this,” she said. “And we are ahead.”
The Yazoo City native never thought she would be sharing a story about her journey with cancer. Cancer happened to other people, not her.
Her life was in order. She had a family. She had a solid job at Stub’s Restaurant, where she has been a waitress for 19 years. Everything was the way it was supposed to be.
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