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A4 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016 ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL, McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI www.enterprise-journal.com Pit bull attacks deputy, K-9 PICAYUNE (AP) Authorities say a Hancock County sheriff's deputy and his canine partner were attacked by a pit bull while attempting to serve an arrest warrant. Chief Deputy Don Bass said Deputy Colin Freeman and his K-9, Ringo, were helping other deputies with the arrest about 7 p.m. Wednesday east of Picayune. Bass said the suspect they were looking for was not at home. Bass says Freeman and Ringo were trying to leave when the pit bull came out of the house and attacked Ringo, locking its jaws onto Ringo's hind leg.

Freeman separated the two dogs, but the pit bull turned on the deputy and bit him on his leg. Bass says Freeman shot the dog. He says both dogs survived. Freeman returned to duty Thursday. jjBBflHn2BHHB SUBMITTED Air Force band to perform Thursday at SMCC www.eventbrite.comeusaf-band-of-the-west-sum-mit-ms-tickets-20024078558.

Doors open one hour before the start of the concert. Seats not occupied 15 minutes before the show will be open to non-ticket holders. The U.S. Air Force Band of the West and the 41 st Army National Guard Band will perform in the Hurst Auditorium at Southwest Mississippi Community College at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

The show is free, but tickets are recommended for guaranteed seating. For tickets, visit Bert Case dies after extended illness JACKSON (AP) Bert Case, whose booming voice and aggressive reporting defined television news in Mississippi from its infancy until last year, has died. WAPT-TV assistant news director Aaron Vogel said Case died Thursday afternoon at the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, surrounded by family and friends. He was 76 and would have celebrated his 77th birthday Saturday.

Case had been hospitalized since Sept. 1 after a diagnosis of sepsis, a complication from an infection. His condition had improved last year, but his wife, Mary Wei-den, said it began to get worse again this month. A Jackson native, Case joined the campus radio at the University of Mississippi in 1957 and took a job at Memphis radio station WMPS in 1960. Colleagues say that's where Case developed his distinctive intonation, including the "Berrrrrt Case" signoff.

After serving as an Air Force information officer, he returned to Jackson in 1965, joining WJTV-TV, serving as news director and anchor. In 1970, he jumped to WAPT, launching newscasts at the station as its news director. Then in 1974, he moved to WLBT-TV, the longtime ratings leader in the Jackson market, serving as a reporter, anchor and news director. WLBT asked Case to retire in 2 0 1 4, setting off a round of honors, but he was barely gone a couple of weeks before resurfacing as a reporter at WAPT, still covering tornadoes and buttonholing politicians, sometimes outhustling competitors young enough to be his grandchildren. "He had a nose for news and he wasn't afraid to get out there and get the story, said retired WLBT-TV news director Dennis Smith.

"He just could not stand not working in broadcast news, covering some story. He was just a news hound." He cemented his place in Mississippi journalism history in 1999 when he and a cameraman drove up to Gov. Kirk Fordice, who had moved out of the Governor's Mansion into a suburban Madison home. He asked about Fordice's trip to Paris with not his wife Pat Fordice, but a former girlfriend of his youth, Ann Garber Creson. Fordice, characteristically confrontational, told Case that if the reporter returned after he was no longer governor, "I'll whip your Later that month, Fordice announced he was divorcing to marry Creson.

"I'm very sorry I never got to reconcile our differences," Case told The Clarion-Ledger when Fordice died in 2004. "I don't think he should be remembered for that incident." Other officials saluted him Thursday, including U.S. Sen Thad Cochran, who was a fraternity brother at Ole Miss. "Like he did for many Mis-sissippians, he became a fixture in my life," Cochran said. "With insight and thoroughness, he brought us news of the good, the bad and the humorous with unwavering fairness." The newsman also achieved Internet fame a 2010 video of Case swatting at an aggressive dog with a reporter's notebook and shouting "You get away from here! has been viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube.

Some legends about Case aren't true, though, like the claim that he tied himself to a tree to witness Hurricane Camille as it slammed into the Gulf Coast in 1969. "I did not strap myself to a tree, but I did think about it," Case told the Daily Mississip-pian in 2005. "My cameraman, Bob Bullock, said, 'Bert, you'd He was probably right. But after Camille, I was glad to see that the tree I had wanted to strap myself to was still standing." RESERVE YOUR Recycle One Robison and Holmes Roto Rooter Sanders Eye Clinic Scenic Rivers Sears Hometown Store Shooters Discount Simmons Security SMCC SMCC Career Workforce Smith Bros. Collision Southern Ag Credit Southern Bone Joint Southern Cash and Pawn Southern Touches Bridal Southwest Distributors Southwest Health System St.

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