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Eugene Cook --- VET
(Obituary ~ 01/14/04)
Eugene Cook, 84, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was retried from General Motors Company, a member of the Dyer County Senior Citizens Association and a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Dyersburg, where he was a member. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Josie Louise Fultz
(Obituary ~ 01/14/04)
Josie Louise Fultz, 92, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, at Maple Ridge Manor. She was a homemaker and a member of Rehoboth Church of Christ. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Zion Cemetery in Elbridge with Brother Glen Burse officiating...
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Vickie Davis
(Obituary ~ 01/14/04)
Vickie Davis, of Obion, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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Pet of the week - Spirit
(Community News ~ 01/14/04)
Spirit is a quiet, gentle 2-3-year-old gray-striped male cat. He is available for adoption at the Dyersburg-Dyer County Humane Society's animal shelter at 325 Church Ave. S. in Dyersburg. For more information, call the shelter at 285-4889.
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Sanctity of Human Life Week begins SundayPrayer vigil scheduled for Jan. 24
(Community News ~ 01/14/04)
438. That's the number of babies who were lost to abortion in Northwest Tennessee in 2003. They will be remembered Jan. 24 when Life Choices Pregnancy Support Center of Dyersburg and Dyer County Right to Life sponsor a prayer vigil at 1 p.m. at the Dyer County Courthouse. The public is invited...
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The rising cost of fighting fires
(Local News ~ 01/14/04)
It costs money to fight fires. This day and time, it costs a lot of money, and there is nothing Dyersburg Fire Chief Bob Veal says he can do to change that trend. As a new age of technology has dawned, the price tags on safety gear for firefighters and the equipment designed to extinguish blazes and save lives has jumped markedly. ...
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Tobacco shop to open downtown across from Baptist preschool
(Local News ~ 01/14/04)
The old downtown car wash at the corner of McGaughey Street and Mill Avenue had been vacant for years and, according to Gleyn Twilla who oversees code enforcement for the city, was turning into an eyesore, which was why he was glad someone was willing to take it over and transform it into a viable business...
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Several arrested by police in sweep
(Local News ~ 01/14/04)
Several people from across the region were arrested in an area-wide drug sweep Tuesday. The arrests, conducted by the Dyersburg Police Department and the West Tennessee Drug and Violent Crime Task Force - an interagency group of law enforcement personnel - continued through the night in Dyersburg and the surrounding area...
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Championship
(College Sports ~ 01/14/04)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Leaders of the Bowl Championship Series are looking at several proposals to change the way its national champion is decided, but a new format is far from complete. ''It is still really premature. We haven't zeroed in on one format,'' Mike Slive, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, said Monday while attending the NCAA Convention. ''All models are on the table.''...
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Grizzlies 115, Warriors 113, 2OT
(Professional Sports ~ 01/14/04)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Memphis Grizzlies are perfect this season in overtime games. And it's no wonder: Coach Hubie Brown uses 10 players per quarter. Shane Battier scored six of his 14 points in the second overtime, including the go-ahead basket, and the Grizzlies won their second straight road game after losing eight in a row, 115-113 over Golden State on Monday night...
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Clemens follows Pettitte from Yankees to Astros
(Professional Sports ~ 01/14/04)
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Rocket blasted out of retirement and landed back home in Houston. Three months after Roger Clemens threw his final pitch for the New York Yankees in the World Series, the six-time Cy Young Award winner signed a one-year contract for $5 million Monday with his hometown Astros...
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Lady Choctaws unable to run with Dyersburg in fourth
(High School Sports ~ 01/14/04)
When Dyersburg and Dyer County played earlier this season, the fourth quarter was like a plague to the Lady Trojans. They could not do anything right. Turnovers, bad shots and mistakes were the statistics that stood out in the defeat. Less than a month later, though, Dyersburg came into its rematch Tuesday with two different factors on its side. First, wan enthused home crowd to urge them on. Second was an improved Lecalia Newman...
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Trojans earn season sweep over Choctaws
(High School Sports ~ 01/14/04)
Wes Pitts had one goal heading into Tuesday's rematch with Dyer County. It wasn't to score 30 points or dish out 15 assists. His goals had nothing to do with individual stats. Nope, the Dyersburg senior only wanted to be able to say one thing when the game was over...
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