Family members fight to keep 4-year-oldâs memory alive after overdose death
Family members fight to keep 4-year-oldâs memory alive after overdose death By Caroline Wood | May 10, 2021 at 10:47 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 7:54 AM
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Itâs a call no parent wants to receive but is one that came for a Laurel man â his daughter had died.
Jan. 31 is a day Wesley and Kathy Byrd will never forget.
âAround noon, my brother came into the room, woke me up. He asked me to sit up and he told me, he said, you know, âRhiannonâs dead,ââ said Wesley Byrd, father of Rhiannon Byrd. âAnd I mean I fell apart.â
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Mar 12, 2021
ROME, Ga. â An award-winning feature co-written by a student from Doerun helped the Berry College student newspaper place third in the state for general excellence in its division at the 2020 Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
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