COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi newspaper is now being run by the fourth generation of the same family.
Peter Imes, 39, became publisher Saturday of the Commercial Dispatch , a daily paper based in Columbus. He succeeds his father, Birney Imes III, 66, who will continue to write a weekly column.
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