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Company accuses fired worker of fraud, kickbacks, consiracy
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
A massive fraud, conspiracy and kickback scheme at the Dyersburg Bekeart plant has been uncovered after what company officials call a "sweeping investigation" of more than two years against the plant's former facilities manager. Jimmy Campbell, 55, is alleged to have engaged what the company's attorneys said was an extensive scheme to demand and receive kickback payments from various contractors who provide general maintenance and services for Bekaert. ...
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Missing persons report filed; man alleged to have fled area
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
The man accused by Bekaert of defrauding the company through a kickback scheme with suppliers was reported missing shortly after he was fired on Wednesday. According to a report from the Jackson Police Department, Jimmy Campbell was reported missing by his wife at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Persons familiar with the matter said Campbell did not live at the home, but in Bradford, in Gibson County...
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Man arrested for making bomb threat
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
An 18-year-old man was arrested in Jackson on Wednesday by Newbern Police Department investigators for calling in the Aug. 29 bomb threat to Dyer County High School. Quincy Douglass was apprehended without incident at his home in Jackson shortly after 1 p.m. by investigators Jeff Box and Greg Barr...
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Tennessee has first human deaths from probable West Nile Virus
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
Four Tennessee senior citizens who tested positive for West Nile Virus have died. Because the test results have not been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the virus is listed only as the probable cause of death, the Tennessee Department of Health said Wednesday afternoon...
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Anti-lottery presentation to intermediate school teachers followed standard procedure: principal, schools director
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
An anti-lottery presentation made to teachers during a Dyersburg Intermediate School faculty meeting Tuesday followed standard procedure for city schools, the school's principal and the city schools director said Wednesday. "This was presented during a regular faculty meeting after school," DIS Principal Lou Newbill said. "If any other group expresses a desire to address our faculty they will be invited."...
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Second Army Guard unit in region mobilized
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
Two days after soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard's 115th Field Artillery Battalion in Covington and Memphis deployed for active duty, Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett on Wednesday announced a 120-soldier engineer company in Paris was being mobilized...
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Dyersburg Police Department awarded grant
(Local News ~ 09/05/02)
The Dyersburg Police Department has been awarded one of six grants presented in the State of Tennessee to target underage drinking. The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, through the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, awarded $11,200 to the Dyersburg Police Department to implement an underage drinking-prevention program. ...
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New women's basketball coach
(High School Sports ~ 09/05/02)
Dyersburg State Community College announced Wednesday that Elijah Taylor would be its new women's basketball coach. Taylor, of Dyersburg, is a physical therapy technician, personal trainer and safety coordinator at Sports Plus Rehab in Dyersburg. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education with concentration in Sports Management from the University of Tennessee at martin, and is working on a certification for Health and Human Performance at UTM...
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Macon Dawson pushes toward the finish line
(High School Sports ~ 09/05/02)
Dyer County's Macon Dawson pushes toward the finish line Wednesday during the JCM Invitational cross country meet in Jackson.
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DHS, DCHS pull off x-country surprises
(High School Sports ~ 09/05/02)
JACKSON -- It was a day of surprises and a possible sign of things to come, as the Dyersburg High School boys' and Dyer County girls' cross-country teams turned in unexpectedly strong finishes at the Jackson Central-Merry Invitational Meet, Wednesday at the University of Tennessee Ag Center...
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Members of the Dyersburg High School boys' cross-country team
(High School Sports ~ 09/05/02)
Members of the Dyersburg High School boys' cross-country team are (from left) Jon Houston, Eric Smith, Nik Schweikert, Brad Ward, Ben Richards and Tim Hawthorne. The Trojans took second place in the Jackson Central-Merry Invitational meet on Wednesday...
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Lona Evelyn Parker
(Obituary ~ 09/05/02)
Lona Evelyn Parker, 75, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002 at West Jefferson Hospital in Marrero, La. She was a homemaker. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel of J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home with Bro. Calvin Smith officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Mary Maude Algee Hearn
(Obituary ~ 09/05/02)
Mary Maude Algee Hearn, 78, of Tiptonville, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002 at her residence. She was retired owner of Lake County Motor Company/Chevrolet Dealership and accountant for Phoenix Gin Company, a life-long member of the First United Methodist Church in Tiptonville where she was choir director and organist for more than 50 years, playing her last service on Easter Day, 2002. ...
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Dyer County Fair host FCE Fashion Revues
(Community News ~ 09/05/02)
Kathleen Yates of Tiptonville won Best of Show in the adult division of the Dyer County Sew with Cotton Contest with her intricately pieced Seminole-inspired two-piece dress. Also winning awards in the Sew with Cotton suit or coat and dress competition were third-place winner Naomi King, second-place winner Regina Elam, fourth-place winner Bobbie Robinson and first-place winner Margie Vaughn. ...
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Jimmy Dean sausage recipe winners
(Community News ~ 09/05/02)
Showing off their award-winning Rudy's Farm/Jimmy Dean Country Sausage Cook-off dishes are first-place winner Wilma Smith of Dyersburg with her Harvest Casserole; second-place winner Debra Roberson of Dyersburg with Fiesta Tamale Pie; and third-place winner Michelle Piskorski of Dyersburg with a Mexican-inspired sausage casserole. Smith won $100 and a plaque; Robertson, $50; and Piskorski, $25. The cook-off was held Tuesday night at the Dyer County Fair...
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