Last Week's Most Read Stories

Man found murdered in hotel (05/04/08)

Deputy captures image of tornado (05/02/08)
A Dyer County Sheriff's Department deputy on Friday witnessed the formation of the funnel cloud near the Chic community as it crossed the Great River Road into the Bradleytown area. Deputy Adam Fisher was parked on the county line on the south end of the Obion River bridge into Lauderdale County with his vehicle facing north when the dashboard video camera caught a video image of the tornado...

Dyersburg High School names Top 10 seniors at 'the Honors' (05/01/08)
It was Oscar night at Dyersburg High School on Thursday evening as honor students took their turn on the red carpet and DHS officials named the Top 10 students of the Class of 2008. Titled, "The Honors," the Academy Awards theme was carried throughout the event from the giant Oscar and red carpet leading to the Commons to the statues presented to worthy students at the event...

Tornado touches down near Chic, destroys trailer (05/02/08)
A house trailer was completely destroyed and a house damaged when a tornado touched down north of the Chic community in the southwest corner of Dyer County on Friday. Also destroyed was a center pivot irrigation system, which was sitting near the trailer...

College storm-chasers catch Earle tornado (05/03/08)
The tornado that tore into Earle, Ark. on Friday was captured on video as it descended from churning clouds by a community college a storm-chasing team from Chicago. "We were north of it and behind it a little bit, watching the clouds," said College of DuPage meteorology professor Paul Sirvatka, whose team stopped overnight in Dyersburg after chasing storms across the Great Plains for the last week. ...

Four injured in collision on 104 (05/07/08)

Fight over nightclub settled by consent (05/05/08)
The partnership operating Club 51 will dissolve by June 28, but the nightclub itself is expected to remain open. Tasha Roberson, 420 Fairbanks, intends to become the club's sole proprietor. Roberson sued her partners, Ebonie Strayhorn, 2125 Joshua Loop, and Brenda Jackson of Peachtree Apartments, for extortion, failure to pay their share of the rent and turning off the utilities. ...

Fire consumes Key Corner home (04/30/08)

Men sentenced on drug charges (05/02/08)
A number of men pleaded guilty to drug charges and were sentenced in Dyer County Circuit Court on Tuesday, April 15. Among them were: On one of the charges, he was fined $2,000 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, followed by 9 months in a community corrections program...