A career of almost 50 years in the newspaper business is coming to an end as Jim Cox will step aside as owner and publisher of The Clarke County Democrat, The South Alabamian and The Thomasville Times which he co-owns with Linda Breedlove. Breedlove is the widow of Mike Breedlove who originally owned The South Alabamian and hired Cox straight out of college 46 years ago. Cox would leave the county briefly to work for another newspaper but returned and took a job at The Clarke County Democrat in 1981. He purchased the newspaper in 1984. He and Mike Breedlove...

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