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October 23, 2009

(8:35 a.m.) Two Dead

BASSFIELD, Miss. (AP) — Two men died in a two-vehicle accident on Mississippi 42, just east of Bassfield.

Jefferson Davis County Coroner Greg Blackwell says 32-year-old Matthew Hal Daily of Carson and 50-year-old Otho Parker Graves of Bassfield were pronounced dead at the scene Wednesday night in the head-on collision.

The accident is still under investigation by Mississippi Highway Patrol.

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