Mississippi man fights cancer, closes historical restaurant

Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 12:02 am | Updated: 12:37 am, Sun Jan 21, 2018.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Billy Fokakis usually only closes his longtime Hattiesburg restaurant, Coney Island Cafe, for a week at Christmas and a week around the Fourth of July. Other than those times, he hasn't missed a day of work in the more than three decades he's run the place.

But things are different now. Fokakis shut down the restaurant indefinitely Dec. 22 so he could undergo treatment for an aggressive form of cancer.

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