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'City Watch' will make Dyersburg a safer place
(Local News ~ 11/04/03)
Computer technology is changing at such a rate of speed that end users often cannot determine which "sales pitches" for new software or programs are actually worth an investment. That is as true for emergency-services managers as it is with the average consumer in America...
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Whitaker urges vision for Reelfoot tourism
(Local News ~ 11/04/03)
Susan Whitaker, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, got her first look at Reelfoot Lake on Wednesday. She said she was impressed by how big the lake is and its picturesque nooks and crannies. "We just kept going and going," she said, referring to a boat tour provided by local resort owner Mike Hayes...
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Man hit by train remains in hospital
(Local News ~ 11/04/03)
The Dyer County man who collided with a train just south of Trimble Saturday morning remains in intensive care at the Regional Medical Center-Memphis trauma unit. Keith Thomas Jones was crossing the intersection, located at Locust Grove Road, while operating a fertilizer spreader when an oncoming train broadsided him...
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Woman leaps to death at bridge
(Local News ~ 11/04/03)
The body of a Munford woman who jumped to her death from the Interstate 155 bridge into the Mississippi River on Sunday afternoon was discovered in Arkansas about 63 miles south of the bridge on Monday, authorities said. Several witnesses called local law enforcement around 3:45 p.m. Sunday noting a woman had climbed over the guardrail and jumped from the bridge after parking on the side of the westbound lane...
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Federal check issued for river port
(Local News ~ 11/04/03)
The Delta Regional Authority, a federal agency created to help revitalize impoverished areas of the Mississippi River delta, officially issued a check totaling $325,000 on Monday for the design and engineering of the proposed river port at Cates Landing north of Tiptonville...
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What happened?
(High School Sports ~ 11/04/03)
SAVANNAH -- It was so close they could taste it. A region title was in the grasp of the Dyersburg High football team Friday. But a fourth-quarter meltdown and a seemingly unexplainable penalty snatched their Halloween treat from their mouths and they were left with only a cruel trick played on them...
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Black churches must unite says Convention presidential candidate
(Community News ~ 11/04/03)
Thick across the chest, with a short neck and wide, round face that exuded a blend of hearty good nature and smooth toughness, like dark hardwood, the Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson had a look about him one might associate more with a labor-union organizer than the pastor of a church...
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