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Take the pressure off the coach's wife by loading all needed equipment
(High School Sports ~ 09/17/07)
After the game between Dyersburg and North Side Friday night, I couldn't help but reflect back on the contest on the drive home from Jackson. The game itself was one I, along with my good friend Charles Dawson among many others, believed the Trojans needed to win pretty...
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Choctaws suffer first loss at McNairy Central
(High School Sports ~ 09/17/07)
A brutal first half took Dyer County out of the running quickly at McNairy Central on Friday, where the Choctaws fell to the Bobcats, 38-7. A hard-hitting McNairy line kept the Dyer County offense from making many significant gains either on the pass or along the ground while the Bobcat offense unleashed a triple-threat rushing attack that yielded four touchdowns and 240 of McNairy's 341 offensive yards...
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Halls to name new fire chief
(Local News ~ 09/17/07)
Halls Mayor Trent McManus expects to appoint a new fire chief at the next meeting of the city board on Monday, Oct. 1. The appointment will replace Halls Fire Chief Ricky Hughey, who resigned from the job in order to accept a position with the Halls Public Works Department...
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Depot Days kicks off year-long celebration
(Local News ~ 09/17/07)
With four events completed and another yet just around the corner, the main event of the annual Depot Days celebration is here. The 15th annual Depot Days celebration will be held Saturday in downtown Newbern. This year's Depot Days' theme is "Celebrating Newbern: 150 Years Past, The Beginning of a One Year Long Sesquicentennial Celebration."...
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'In the Heat of the Night' marks 40th
(Local News ~ 09/17/07)
While there's talk of Memphis once again becoming a film location, West Tennessee and the movies aren't strangers. Forty years ago this summer, it was Dyersburg on the big screen. And now, when Mary Ledford sees "In the Heat of the Night" on the small screen, it brings back pleasant memories...
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Man, 61, mauled by dog
(Local News ~ 09/17/07)
A Newbern man is in a Memphis hospital today after he was mauled by a pit bull Saturday morning. Coy Rushing, 61, is at The Regional Medical Center in Memphis with severe arm lacerations from bites suffered from a pit bull. According to Newbern police captain Jim Richards, Rushing had knocked on the door of Tim Cummings's residence at 532 E. Johnson St. to inquire about work Cummings wanted Rushing to do...
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Man found dead in suspicious fire
(Local News ~ 09/17/07)
Investigators are calling the death of a man found in a house that burned Saturday morning suspicious. Firefighters found the body of Eric Lomax, 20, in the smoldering remains of his residence at 340 Revell Rd. at about 3:24 a.m., more than three hours after passing motorists at 12:07 a.m. alerted authorities the house was fully engulfed in flames...
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Obituaries for Sept. 14, 2007
(Obituary ~ 09/17/07)
Derrick Dukes Derrick Dukes, 40, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 at Metro General Hospital in Nashville. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles F. McCright officiating. Burial will be in M.C.C.O. Cemetery in Newbern. Cosmopolitan Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements...
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Obituaries for Sept. 16, 2007
(Obituary ~ 09/17/07)
Fred Joseph Caldwell Jr. Fred Joseph Caldwell Jr., 83, of Tiptonville, died Friday, Sept. 14, 2007 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a retired farmer and a Navy veteran of World War II. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today at the Tiptonville Chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Bro. Don Reel officiating. Burial will be in Tiptonville City Cemetery...
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Obituaries for Sept. 17, 2007
(Obituary ~ 09/17/07)
Virgie Isbell Virgie Isbell, of Newbern, died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson-Williams Funeral Home. Grace Lumpkins Grace Lumpkins, of Lomita, Calif., formerly of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007 at Lomita Care Center...
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What did you think of Mary Winkler's appearance on the Oprah show last Wednesday?
(09/17/07)
Marilyn Driver Fowlkes "The interview might have come a little soon after her release from prison. But I believe that whatever she did was more or less for the kids. It sounds like her husband mistreated her." --- David Kelly Union City "I don't understand the purpose of going on television and bragging about it. I didn't get a chance to watch the show, but I've seen clips of the interview and have read about it in the paper. There had to have been money involved."...
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