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Spurned investors refile lawsuit over Lewis-Tyson fight
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
A lawsuit over financing of a Memphis heavyweight fight has been refiled, this time charging fraud and asking for more than twice as much money on damages. The new complaint, filed in Dyer County Chancery Court on Feb. 6 by Covington attorney Mike Whittaker, accuses John Ford, Kent Ford and Billy Walker and their firm, Dyer Investment Co., of breach of contract and fraud. It asks for $6.2 million in damages...
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Local students win big at DECA competition
(Community News ~ 02/16/04)
Dyersburg High School students won more than a dozen first-place awards in a business leadership conference and regional competition held recently at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The Regional DECA competition at UT Martin featured contests in areas of marketing and business such as Apparel and Accessories, Food Marketing, Marketing Management and Retail Merchandising. ...
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Right Choices to hold creative arts contest; abstinence to be theme of drawings, writings, songs and videos
(Community News ~ 02/16/04)
A little creativity could bring big rewards for middle and high school students in Dyer, Crockett, Lauderdale and Obion counties. Right Choices of West Tennessee is holding a Creative Arts Contest. Artists, writers, musicians and videographers are being asked to create works of art that convey a positive and motivating message about abstinence from sexual activity...
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Pet Stop wins Golden Tennis Shoe Award
(Community News ~ 02/16/04)
In the last six months or so, more than 75 kittens made a pit stop at The Pet Stop before finding permanent homes. No ordinary pet shop kittens, these little balls of fur had been turned over to the Dyersburg-Dyer County Humane Society for one reason or another...
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County's teen pregnancy rate drops to Top 20
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
When it comes to high teen pregnancy rates, Dyer County is no longer one of the top 10 counties statewide. It is, however, still in the top 20, Nancy Deere announced during the Zero in on Adolescent Pregnancy (ZAP) meeting, which was held Tuesday afternoon at the local health department...
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Two arrested trying to sell stolen goods
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
Two Ridgley men suspected in the theft of more than $4,000 of equipment from a Lanes Ferry body shop on Wednesday were arrested Thursday after they tried to sell the items. According to the DCSD report, Jason Belt, 22, and Jeffrey Dwayne Johnson, 21, are suspected in breaking into a store owned by Barry Davis sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning and taking hand tools, power tools, a computer, a stereo, a fax machine and various other items...
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State investigating lottery ticket fraud
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
Reports of fake lottery tickets across Tennessee have spurred an inquiry into fraud by the state Attorney General. Sharon Curtis-Flair, communications director for the office, declined to comment about the investigation except to say a number of the agency's attorneys has been tasked to examine the alleged fraud...
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Deputies nab two with arrest warrants by accident
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
A man wanted for aggravated robbery in Crockett County and a man wanted for auto theft in Jackson were arrested by the Dyer County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday night while deputies were checking for suspects on an unrelated matter at a local hotel room...
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Alternative fuel producers likely to be first in at Cates Landing
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
Producers of alternative fuels such as ethanol or bio-diesel will be among the first businesses to settle in Lake County when the Cates Landing river port becomes a reality, a state official said Friday at the Port Authority meeting in Tiptonville Ed Harlan, agribusiness development officer of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, said the national energy bill moving through Congress includes "significant" incentives for alternative energy ventures...
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River port now depends on local financing
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
Political forces in Washington and Nashville are behind the proposed Cates Landing river port and the time has come for county governments across the region to begin allocating dollars for the project. Dyersburg Electric System General Manager Jimmy Williamson, chairman of the Northwest Tennessee Port Authority, told an audience in Tiptonville on Friday morning some $750,000 had been raised without local participation but the time for that had finally arrived. ...
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Dyersburg TRC maintains goals for third year
(Community News ~ 02/16/04)
Since it opened in 1968, the mission of the Tennessee Rehabilitation Center at Dyersburg has been to provide program participants individualized, quality, timely services that will lead to full-time employment and improved quality of life. In November, the center received recognition for achieving that mission during the 2002-03 fiscal year...
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Free puppy
(Community News ~ 02/16/04)
The gimmick was simple enough. Get a prescription filled at Belew and Ray pharmacy in downtown Dyersburg, and you get a free puppy. The problem was that owner Mark Bowers discovered customers took him seriously and didn't come in to get their prescriptions filled fearing they might get stuck with an unwanted pet. ...
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Police to enforce law prohibiting motorized scooters on city streets
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
The Dyersburg Police Department this week will begin enforcing the law prohibiting the illegal use of motor scooters on public streets and highways. Chief Bobby Williamson said although the department regularly enforces the unauthorized use of motor-powered vehicles like four-wheel all-terrain vehicles and go-carts, "parents are now buying children the very popular small motor scooters and allowing them to ride on the city streets...
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Threats at Okeena draw jail sentence
(Local News ~ 02/16/04)
A Dyersburg man pleaded guilty Feb. 10 in Dyer County Circuit Court to making threats with a gun at Okeena Park last October and was sentenced to serve 60 days in the Dyer County Jail. Jonathan T. Robinson, 26, of No. 35 McNeil Apartments, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault and also must serve three years of supervised probation...
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Jenny Essary
(Obituary ~ 02/16/04)
Jenny Essary, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004 at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Wanda Hart
(Obituary ~ 02/16/04)
Wanda Hart, of Ridgely, died today at Ridgely Care & Rehabiliation. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Choctaws start district tourney this week
(High School Sports ~ 02/16/04)
The Dyer County boys' basketball team will find itself in unfamiliar territory Tuesday when the Choctaws battle Gibson County in the opening round of the 2A District 13 tournament at Martin-Westview. It has been quite some time since a Dyer County squad has had to compete in the tournament's first days. With the dominance it has held over the district the past few years, the Choctaws had grown accustomed to seeing its name on top of the tourney brackets...
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