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Key Club hosting fund-raiser
(Community News ~ 03/03/04)
The sophomore members of the Dyersburg High School Key Club are sponsoring a Womanless Beauty Revue at 7 p.m. Friday in the DHS Little Theater. Tickets are $3 and available at the door. All money raised will be donated to the Dyersburg-Dyer County Union Mission New Life Youth Camp for sponsorships and to the John Elder fund...
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Shifting times force end to man's dream
(Local News ~ 03/03/04)
Concepts such as universal building codes were unknown when Willie Toles was born in a ramshackle farmhouse in the Menglewood bottoms 63 years ago. When he opened his small business, the Avalon Club, along Meeks Street in 1963, terms like "planned business developments" or "zoning ordinances" were usually bandied about in major metropolitan areas, not small towns like Dyersburg...
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State budget on track for passage, lawmakers say
(Local News ~ 03/03/04)
Study by TDOT of feasibility of widening Highway 211 to four lanes between Dyersburg and Newbern.
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Man who threatened suicide bomb pleads guilty
(Local News ~ 03/03/04)
The man who in December threatened to detonate explosives during a two-hour standoff with police in his Dyersburg home before the department's Special Response Team broke into the room and seized him entered a guilty plea in Dyersburg City Court on Tuesday...
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Carter sentenced to federal prison
(Local News ~ 03/03/04)
Jerry U. Carter, the former Dyersburg doctor indicted in 1999 on 100 counts of fraud and conspiracy, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to serve 70 months in prison. The counts had been reduced to a count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and a count of Medicaid fraud, to which he had pleaded guilty on Feb. 11...
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Billy M. Coleman
(Obituary ~ 03/03/04)
Billy M. Coleman, 78, of Dyersburg, died Monday, March 1, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a businessman and landowner, affiliated with Coleman Discount Sales for 20 years. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Waymon Hogue officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Lisa Joy Dean
(Obituary ~ 03/03/04)
Lisa Joy Dean, 45, of Ridgely, died Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She was a restaurant employee and a member of Ridgely Church of God of Prophecy. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Cryer Funeral Home in Obion with the Rev. Clayton Mahan officiating. Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Obion...
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Ruth Lynn Dunlap
(Obituary ~ 03/03/04)
Ruth Lynn Dunlap, 92, of Ridgely, died Monday, March 1, 2004, at her residence. She was a homemaker and a member of Ridgely First United Methodist Church. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ridgely First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dean Emerson officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Dyersburg. Curry Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Buck Rinks
(Obituary ~ 03/03/04)
Buck Rinks, 64, of Tiptonville, died Monday, March 1, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a retired farmer and a Baptist. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at the Tiptonville chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernest Mayo officiating. Burial will be in New haven Cemetery in Ridgely...
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Irvin Leon Tillman
(Obituary ~ 03/03/04)
Irvin Leon Tillman, 95, of Dyersburg, died Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at Oakwood Manor in Dyersburg. She was a retired agent with Illinois Central Railroad, a member of First Baptist Church for 50 years plus, a member of Hess Masonic Lodge #93, member of Easter Star and a retired red coat volunteer with Methodist Hospital...
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Titans trying to postpone price of continued chase for Super Bowl
(Professional Sports ~ 03/03/04)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Titans remain in full chase mode for another Super Bowl berth, spending what they need to compete and willing to draw the line only when they have serious questions. The Titans restructured or extended a handful of contracts and reached new, long-term deals with All-Pro linebacker Keith Bulluck, tight end Erron Kinney and receiver Drew Bennett to get below the NFL's salary cap by Tuesday's deadline...
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Feds were told Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield received steroids
(Professional Sports ~ 03/03/04)
Barry Bonds walked silently through the San Francisco Giants' bustling clubhouse. Asked about a report that he had received steroids and human growth hormone from a nutritional supplements lab implicated in a drug-distribution ring, Bonds softly replied: ''Get out of my locker.''...
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Manning deal done as teams prepare for free agency
(Professional Sports ~ 03/03/04)
Peyton Manning got a record new contract Tuesday, solving a major salary cap problem for the Indianapolis Colts on a day most NFL teams also cleared cap room for free agency. Except, as usual, the Washington Redskins. The highest-profile player released Tuesday was San Francisco quarterback Jeff Garcia, who declined to accept a cut in his $9.9 million salary for next season. That made him one of the top players on the free agent market, which opens Wednesday...
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Marge Schott, controversial Reds owner, dies
(Professional Sports ~ 03/03/04)
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Marge Schott, the tough-talking, chain-smoking owner of the Cincinnati Reds who won a World Series but was repeatedly suspended for offensive remarks, died Tuesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was 75. Schott was hospitalized about three weeks ago for breathing difficulties and repeatedly needed treatment for lung problems in recent years. Christ Hospital spokeswoman Dona Buckler did not release a cause of death...
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Some old song for Trojans
(High School Sports ~ 03/03/04)
MUNFORD -- Beating a team four times in one season is a difficult task to accomplish. The opposing team has seen just about everything you can do. There are no secrets by the time that fourth game approaches. However, none of that seemed to bother Jackson North Side Tuesday when it took the floor against Dyersburg in the boys Region 7-AAA championship. In the most lopsided of the four games, the Indians defeated Dyersburg 57-46...
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North Side zones out Lady Trojans in title game
(High School Sports ~ 03/03/04)
MUNFORD -- In three previous meetings the Lady Indians have shown they have an extra gear when playing Dyersburg. It's just another level the Lady Trojans had not been able to reach. This was the case again Tuesday when the two teams met for the Region 7-AAA championship in Munford. After 20 minutes of a tug-of-war battle, the Lady Indians toppled Dyersburg in the final 11 minutes to win 54-39...
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Release of brain behind '97 heist today
(Local News ~ 03/03/04)
The man responsible for the burglary of $386,000 from a Dyersburg bank in 1997 is to walk out of a federal corrections center in Texas today, his five-year sentence complete. Earl Israel, 72, was indicted in May 1999 on four counts related to the December 1997 burglary of $386,755.36 from First Citizens National Bank's Green Village branch. He entered a not guilty plea in January 2000, but changed his plea to guilty a month later. He was sentenced in March 2000...
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