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Collections for troops, Life Choices on Saturday
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
The local Jackson Hewitt Tax Service is providing the opportunity to help two organizations at one single event. The office will be a collection site for The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes. It will also hold A Shower of Giving for Life Choices Pregnancy Support Center...
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Church to host concert April 1
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
Every life has a purpose. From the time Paul Saik was a small child, his has been to touch the lives of others though his talents and love of music. Saik will be featured in concert at 6 p.m. April 1 at First Baptist Church in Dyersburg. There is no admission charge. Nursery will be provided. Everyone is invited to attend. For more information, call 285-4811...
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Most of county's waste diverted from household use landfill to compost, recycling, better sites
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
While Dyer, Gibson and Crockett counties produced more solid wastes in 2006, residents and businesses also recycled more. An annual report prepared for the Tri-County Regional Solid Waste Board reported that the three counties combined generated 13.87 percent more wastes overall than in the previous year...
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$100,000 bond set for suspect in standoff
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
The man who holed up for six hours in a Pate Street home on Tuesday after allegedly shooting a teenager on Monday was ordered held on a $100,000 bond. Marlos "Fat Rat" Lakeith Tipton, also known as Marlos Mann, 34, arrived in the courtroom of the Dyer County Jail on Friday, where Dyersburg City Judge Dean Dedmon heard the case. Tipton has several evading arrest warrants and is considered a flight risk. He was in handcuffs and leg shackles on Friday, with two police officers flanking him...
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Tanner: Vote not for troop withdrawal
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
Citing the need for Iraqi citizens to "take control of their own country," U.S. Rep. John Tanner (D-Union City) on Friday voted for a timeline for American troops to exit the embattled nation. Tanner's vote in the majority 218-212 party-line count was for emergency supplemental appropriations, but included benchmarks for progress in the war tied to troop presence...
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Byars hearing on rape charge delayed
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
The man accused of raping a 14-year-old in Knoxville in November was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on the charge in an East Tennessee courtroom, but the hearing was rescheduled after his attorney asked for more time. Timothy Byars, 44, asked to be allowed more time for discussions with his legal counsel, Knoxville attorney Tommy Hindman. Byars is alleged to have raped a Dyersburg girl in November in Knoxville before a track meet...
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Man charged with Ky. murder from 2000
(Local News ~ 03/26/07)
A Tiptonville man wanted as a suspect in a grisly murder of an 18-year-old Kentucky girl in 2000 was arrested on Sunday morning when he turned himself into police. Quincy Omar "Q-Dog" Cross, 31, of 823 McBride St. in Tiptonville, is charged with complicity to commit murder in the brutal killing of Jessica Currin in August 2000. The girl's body was found strangled, beaten, stabbed and burned on the back lawn of the Mayfield, Ky. middle school...
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