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Ordinance against mean dogs raised by city board
(Local News ~ 07/18/06)
With city workers being chased atop trucks and postal workers refusing to deliver mail along certain streets, city board members are clamoring for an ordinance against ownership of vicious dogs. Alderman Freeman Dudley on Monday night said mail deliverers and city workers are afraid to work in certain areas of the city because of aggressive dogs...
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Bankruptcy fee hike would hurt those 'too poor to go broke'
(Local News ~ 07/18/06)
A proposal in Congress to increase the filing fee for Chapter 7 bankruptcy will penalize those least able to pay it, a local bankruptcy attorney said Thursday. "It's getting to where some people are too poor to go broke," Gerald Ketchum said. "I think the fees are high enough already and the proposed increase would present another obstacle to them."...
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Kitten tossed from car gets chance to recover
(Local News ~ 07/18/06)
If cats truly have nine lives, one little kitten may have only eight left to live. The kitten had one broken leg, another leg that didn't work, and dried blood in her ear. Someone tossed her out of a car while Kelley Seaton and a friend stood outside a local restaurant talking on June 26...
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City board considering curfew for minors
(Local News ~ 07/18/06)
Dyersburg Mayor Bill Revell told the city board of aldermen Monday night that a curfew for children should be considered for the city that sent minors home at 11 p.m. during the weekdays and at midnight on weekends. Revell said the city board had considered a curfew in years past but backed away from adopting such a measure. ...
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Mowing accident maims child, 3
(Local News ~ 07/18/06)
A three-year-old boy was maimed Monday in a lawn mower accident on Bruceville Slab Road. Elijah Wayne Ables, the son of Wayne and April Ables, was running to his mother, who was cutting grass on a 42-inch riding lawn mower. According to the Dyer Cou-nty Sheriff's Department report, April Ables stopped the mower, but the child stepped into the blade path before it stopped rotating. ...
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