By: The Evening Times of West Memphis' building burned to the ground Sunday morning, destroying a printing press and all the newspaper's equipment.
Officials don't yet know what caused the blaze, which began early Sunday and burned for several hours. Firefighters finished dousing the blaze before noon.
Editor Mike Bowie said the building's roof collapsed, and all the newspaper's property - including its printing press, classified ad records and computers - was destroyed in the blaze.
The afternoon newspaper publishes Monday through Friday, with a circulation of about 8,000, Bowie said. The paper has a second office in nearby Marion, where staff will temporarily work.
Monday afternoon's edition would be printed at the Daily News, a small independent paper across the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tenn., Bowie said.
"We're going to do everything in the world we can" to continue publishing normally, Bowie said.
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