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Local case lingers despite convictions across state for illegal photography, privacy invasion
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Parents in Good Hope Subdivision north of RoEllen in September discovered images of their children were appearing on the Internet after an anonymous person who found the images mailed letters and CDs of the pictures and videos to the children's parents in an attempt to draw attention to the problem of child predators on the Web...
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Eagle-watching season begins at Reelfoot Lake
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Bald eagles have been returning to Reelfoot Lake for several weeks, just in time for the official eagle-watching season and the Reelfoot Lake Eagle Festival. Winter is the time to see eagles soaring over Reelfoot Lake, catching fish, snatching wounded ducks or sitting high atop a bare cypress tree...
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3-state pursuit starts at city
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
A high-speed police pursuit that started Friday morning near Dyersburg ended in a Clay County, Ark., field when the suspect crashed his vehicle into a pond and subsequently was arrested. Clay County Sheriff Ronnie Cole arrested Mario Dumond Williams, 26, of Sikeston, Mo., at gunpoint as the suspect emerged from a creek bed on to a field row, the sheriff said Friday...
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Man convicted in connection to child death held on bond for abuse
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
The man convicted in April 2003 in connection with the shaking death of his infant boy and sentenced to 12 years in prison was held on a $25,000 bond Friday in Dyersburg City Court after a girlfriend accused him of verbally abusing her. Christopher Patrick, 29, was out on parole when the woman called police on Dec. 28. Appearing in court with Patrick, she told Judge Lyman Ingram she didn't want him to return to prison...
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City vows to be more 'developer friendly'
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Beset by complaints from area developers that Dyersburg's rigid policies regarding utility hookups were hampering commercial growth, the Water, Sewer and Gas Committee on Friday said it would in the future consider variances on a case-by-case basis...
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AG Bivens out front on new state anti-meth campaign
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Dyersburg's Phil Bivens, district attorney for the 29th Judicial District that encompasses Dyer and Lake counties, will take a leading role in a new statewide anti-methamphetamine campaign launched by the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference...
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First Tennessee sues Burnett, co-signers for $1.3 million in defaulted loans
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Dyersburg real estate developer Frank Burnett has been sued by First Tennessee Bank for default on seven promissory notes with outstanding balances totaling more than $1.3 million. According to the lawsuit, Burnett executed the seven loans between Feb. 13, 1997, and July 18, 2003...
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Tennessee announces 2006 field days and special events
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has announced its 2006 calendar for field days and special events. Thirteen events have been scheduled at Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station facilities throughout the state beginning in May 2006 and running through October. Field-day topics include beef cattle production, ornamental horticulture and landscape design, and tobacco and turf-grass research and production...
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'Most wanted' criminal caught for home burglaries
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
A man wanted for burglaries in Dyersburg and a member of an East Tennessee county's 10 most wanted list was arrested last week without incident Thursday during a routine traffic stop. Anthony Ray Billings is a suspect in the Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 burglaries of homes on Friendship Street in South Dyersburg in which a number of guns, knives and electronic goods were stolen. Billings, of Atoka, was developed as a suspect by investigators after interviews with several people familiar with the matter...
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Sheriff ordered deadly force to end pursuit
(Local News ~ 01/03/06)
Pemiscot County, Mo. Sheriff Tommy Greenwell said Friday that he authorized his deputies to use deadly force against a Sikeston, Mo. man who led police on a high-speed chase that started near Dyersburg. Clay County, Ark. Sheriff Ronnie Cole arrested Mario Dumond Williams, 26, of Sikeston at gunpoint as the suspect emerged from a creek bed on to a field row, the sheriff said...
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