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Dyersburg State grows with opening of Tipton County campus
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
Dyersburg State Community College has completed another landmark step in providing continuing education for surrounding counties with the official opening of a new academic building in the DSCC Jimmy Naifeh Center in Covington on Friday. State and local officials were on hand to celebrate the opening of the building, which has been constructed along the main axis of the new campus...
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Retired 25:40 director Lhota thanked for contributions
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
For her family, it was a chance to meet some of the people they've heard about over the years. For the community -- which included city and community leaders, members of the Matthew board, former Matthew clients and friends -- it was an opportunity to say thank you and good luck...
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3 caught stealing meat from restaurant
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
Dyersburg Police arrested three men early Friday on burglary charges after a report of stolen meat from LePanto's Restaurant was hidden in a room in the Colonial Inn hotel. Kenneth Pollock, 22, of Reynolds Ave.; Charles Goforth, 29, 8311 Forked Deer Rd. in Gates; and Kevin Morgan, 25, 112 Susan Dr. were lodged in the Dyer County Jail after police found almost $500 worth of frozen meat at about 3:20 a.m...
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Police burglary detail hampering business break-ins
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
The police detail ordered by Chief Terry Ledbetter on Dec. 24, 2006 to stop the increasing burglaries of businesses across the city has met with success. The three men who broke into the walk-in freezer at LePanto's Restaurant are each considered "persons of interest" in the other burglaries on South Main Street and St. John Avenue, said police spokesman Lt. Steve Isbell...
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Police officer shoots self by mistake
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
A reserve Millington police officer accidentally shot himself through the leg while shopping for a car at a Dyersburg auto dealer on Friday. A Dyersburg police report said Thomas Michael Jordan, Jr., 22, discharged a single 40-caliber bullet into his right thigh while trying to remove a handgun he had placed in his front pants pocket at 10:12 a.m. Jordan, who works as a security guard at LeBonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, was shopping for a vehicle at Moody Wadley, 1609 Forrest St...
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Contract signed after board said no, committee learns
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
Former Dyersburg mayor Bill Revell evidently signed a contract in July 2006 allowing a wireless firm to dictate its own needs on the city's emergency services tower, contrary to the board and safety committee's advice. Public safety communications manager Mark Grant told the city's Public Safety Committee on Friday he discovered during an audit that Cingular Wireless's annual lease payment for space on the tower had been less than expected. ...
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Rural routes attracting drug transporters to avoid law
(Local News ~ 01/08/07)
Tipton County Sheriff J.T. "Pancho" Chumley said the remote stretch of Highway 14 from Memphis to Brownsville is a well-known corridor for illicit drugs. "Highway 14, Highway 71, Highway 51," said Chumley. "They're off the interstate system and the drug traffickers use them to avoid the interdiction teams they know are waiting for them."...
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