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Williams uses first week to work out kinks
(Professional Sports ~ 01/23/04)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - After six months on the sidelines, Venus Williams knows her game needs work. And the experience that comes with winning four Grand Slam tournaments is helping gauge her progress. So she wasn't too concerned when she made 23 unforced errors during a second-round match Thursday at the Australian Open against 17-year-old Vera Douchevina, a Russian ranked 112th...
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Promise of a Super Bowl close to coming true
(Professional Sports ~ 01/23/04)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Caught up in the excitement of securing an NFL expansion team, Jerry Richardson uttered a promise that would haunt him for the next nine years. The owner of the Carolina Panthers guaranteed his team would win a Super Bowl within its first decade. What followed was a laundry list of off-field arrests, atrocious behavior and years of losing that made the Panthers and their owner look like fools...
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Grizzlies win six in a row, but Brown still worries about consistency
(Professional Sports ~ 01/23/04)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis Grizzlies are playing better than ever, beating the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday for their sixth win in a row. But coach Hubie Brown still worries that his young team can go from hot to cold in a matter of minutes...
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North Side invades Dyersburg
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/04)
The first 36 games were just a prelude. Just an overture of what was to come. Not to say that the other contests were not important, but for No. 7 Dyersburg and No. 5 Jackson North Side, Friday's matchup has been a head-on collision waiting to happen...
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Girl Scout cookie-selling season starts tomorrow
(Community News ~ 01/23/04)
Mmmm! Girl Scouts across the Dyersburg area on Saturday will begin offering for sale their beloved cookies in an annual rite of late winter. "They are going on sale this Saturday," said Dyersburg/Halls cookie chairman Beverly Jelonek. "The pre-sales start and the cookies will arrive on Feb. 23."...
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For DIS's HOSTS program, 'those mentors make the difference'
(Community News ~ 01/23/04)
When then-Dyersburg Intermediate School principal Danny Walden asked Pat Davidson to get involved with the HOSTS program three years ago, she wasn't sure what she had gotten herself into. Davidson had already been teaching for 33 years and would soon be able to retire. So why did she agree to take on this new program that focuses on "Helping One Student To Succeed"?...
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John Darrell Gill
(Obituary ~ 01/23/04)
John Darrell Gill, 52, of Trimble, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at his residence. He was sales manager for Nix-A-Mite Exterminators, a U.S. Army veteran, a member of Trimble First Baptist Church and a member of Trimble American Legion. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home with Dr. William Oakley and the Rev. Albert McCadney officiating. Burial will be in Pierce Cemetery in Trimble...
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Embree Edward Paulk
(Obituary ~ 01/23/04)
Embree Edward Paul, 69, of West Frankfort, Ill., formerly of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at Franklin Hospital. He was a former employee of Colonial Rubber Works and a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Union Funeral Home in West Frankfort, Ill. with the Rev. Alan Summers officiating. Burial will be in East Fork Cemetery...
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James Franklin Wilson
(Obituary ~ 01/23/04)
James Franklin Wilson, 82, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a retired farmer and construction worker. Services will be at 1 p.m. today in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Carmon Dennison officiating. Burial will be in Dyer County Memorial Gardens...
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Ervin Jelks
(Obituary ~ 01/23/04)
Ervin Jelks, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by H.H. Hudson Funeral Home.
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Lloyd "Tootie" McManus
(Obituary ~ 01/23/04)
Lloyd "Tootie" McManus, of Trimble, died today at Wesley Care Center in Dyersburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home.
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Fourth felony in two years leads to two-year prison sentence
(Local News ~ 01/23/04)
A Dyersburg woman who committed four felonies in two years pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery Tuesday in circuit court and was sentenced to serve two years in prison. Rashijda Branch, 25, of 517 Fairbanks St., also agreed to a full revocation of a five-year probation sentence she received after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary and forgery charges in March 2003. The sentences will run concurrent so her total effective sentence is five years in prison...
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Cole named to parole board
(Local News ~ 01/23/04)
Former five-term state representative Ronnie M. Cole of Dyersburg was named Thursday by Gov. Phil Bredesen to a term on the Tennessee Probation and Parole Board. "I'm honored that Gov. Bredesen selected me to serve on this board," Cole said. "The mission of the board is to minimize public risk and to promote proper behavior of inmates at the least possible cost to taxpayers."...
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Landowners' plan to open Stokes Creek panned; basin authority may revive river restoration effort
(Local News ~ 01/23/04)
A plan to blast a pilot channel through the clogged Stokes Creek canal could ignite another attempt at river restoration in the Tigrett community. Jimmy Barbour and five other landowners along Stokes Creek applied last fall for state and federal permits to open a 4,000-foot pilot channel through the creek bed and to remove six beaver dams. ...
- Rucker, Minter talk trash-but cleanly (Professional Sports ~ 01/23/04)
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