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Man wanted for questioning in murder captured
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
Dyersburg Police apprehended a man linked to a 2002 Kentucky murder on Thursday after a brief chase in the 1000 block of Bose Street. Arrested and charged with evading arrest and aggravated burglary is Luvell West, 28, who was caught hiding in a home he had broken into while attempting to avoid capture...
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Fitzhugh says it's 'DOGS' again
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
A budget proposal that state legislators said they could not accept during last year's rancorous debate over tax increases may be the only option available to Governor Phil Bredesen, who promised to balance Tennessee's budget in 2003-04 without new revenues...
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Sells files motion for summary judgment in heavyweight fight lawsuit
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
A motion for a summary judgment has been filed in an $800,000 lawsuit against Dyer Investment Company over disputed proceeds from a heavyweight prizefight in Memphis. The motion, on behalf of Darrell L. Sells, was filed March 5 in Dyer County Chancery Court by Dyersburg attorney Robert G. Millar...
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Tennessee Department of Transportation to pave the median between the lanes of the U.S. Highway 51 Bypass
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
More than two years after the city board voted to ask the Tennessee Department of Transportation to pave the median between the lanes of the U.S. Highway 51 Bypass, the agency has scheduled dates for contracts to be let. The 4.1-mile long project will be let in two segments, said a TDOT spokesman...
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Soybeans help improve electrical transformers
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
A Dyersburg company is part of an effort to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. ERMCO is offering electrical transformers that use soy oil instead of petroleum-based oil. If customers embraced the new technology, the country would need about 40 million gallons less petroleum imports...
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Car to be given away in Red Cross fund-raiser
(Local News ~ 03/10/03)
Can you picture yourself zipping through Dyersburg in a red convertible? It could happen -- and for less money than you'd think. How about $5? The Green Village branch of First Citizens National Bank is giving the car away this month. Anyone who makes a $5 donation to the American Red Cross through the bank may enter the drawing...
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Last time was in 1984; thousands packed gym
(High School Sports ~ 03/10/03)
The boy's substate basketball game at the Dyersburg High School gym on Monday will be first time since 1984 the school has played host to the competition, when a crowd estimated at more than 2,500 people packed the stands to witness DHS vanquish Memphis-Hamilton...
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Lady Trojans fall to Melrose
(High School Sports ~ 03/10/03)
A young and courageous Dyersburg Lady Trojans basketball team was no match for the veteran, physical Melrose Lady Golden Wildcats Saturday night at the sectional tournament in Memphis. Dyersburg fell to Melrose 76-58. The Lady Golden Wildcats will go on to the AA state tournament in Murfreesboro, as will the Westview Lady Chargers of Martin, who defeated the Ridgeway Lady Roadrunners 66-46 in a AAA match up earlier in the evening...
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Lella Lorene White
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Mrs. Lella Lorene White, 92, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, March 6, 2003 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center Hospital. She was a member of Grace Presbyterian Church and a member of the Usher and Trustee boards. Funeral Services will be today at 1:30 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church in Dyersburg with Rev. Calvin White officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Geneva Davis
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Geneva Davis, 77, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, March 9, 2003 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She was a retired employee of Dyersburg Fabrics for 48 years and attended East Dyersburg Pentecostal Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of J.W. Curry & Son Funeral Home with the Rev. John Morris and the Rev. Ron Lovins officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Jacob Scott
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Jacob Scott, infant son of K.J. and Jamie Scott of Ridgely, died Sunday, March 9, 2003 at LeBonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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George Russell Williams
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
who for 36 years ran Williams Furniture at Four Points, died Saturday night at his home south of Dyersburg. Born Oct. 27, 1930 to Fred and Evie Williams in St. Joseph, Tenn., he moved with his family to the Bruceville community in 1937 along with a sister and five brothers. Williams was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving on the U.S.S. Coral Sea for two years and at Norfolk, Va. for two years...
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Dr. John McQueen Guttery Jr.
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Renowned local dentist Dr. John McQueen Guttery Jr. died Friday at Dyersburg Manor Nursing Care. He was 87. "There wasn't a finer or better dentist in the world," said longtime friend Billy Yates. "Dr. Guttery was a good citizen, a great contributor to the community. He will be missed."...
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Buddie Adcock
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Buddie Adcock, 83, of Dyersburg, died Friday, March 7th, 2003 at his residence in Dyersburg. He was a farmer and known to locals as "the man in the window" because of his tendency to stand at the window of his residence and wave to the passers-by...
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V. J. Shanklin
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Mr. V. J. Shanklin, of Dresden, TN, died at 86 years of age on Wednesday, March 5th, 2003 at Dyersburg Manor Nursing Home. Mr. Shanklin, a retired Dresden High School Ag. and FFA teacher, was born in Latham, TN to the late Roscoe and Charity Jones Shanklin. He was a member of Southside Church of Christ in Dresden and a former member of the Weakley County Commissioner and Rotary Club...
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Jeffrey Wayne McDavid
(Obituary ~ 03/10/03)
Jeffrey Wayne McDavid, 35, of Clarkton, MO, died on Friday, February 28, 2003, in Clarkton, MO. He was born on April 14, 1967, in Paris, TN to his mother Patricia Crowe McDavid and father Donald Richard McDavid. He worked at Plastene Supply in Portageville early in life and was united in marriage on May 26, 2000 in Piggott, AR to survivor Dawn "Shelly" Simpson...
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DHS journeys back to Elizabethan Period
(Community News ~ 03/10/03)
Dyersburg High School students and faculty journeyed back in time Friday. Making the trip possible were freshmen English students who shared their talents and creativity to show a peek into the Elizabethan Period. The project coincides with the freshmen's study of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."...
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'A play for the entire family'
(Community News ~ 03/10/03)
It's a story of a boy, a father's favoritism, his brothers' jealousy and how sticking to your dreams can overcome any obstacle, no matter how impossible it may seem. Masquerade Theatre in Union City will present Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" beginning Friday...
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