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Lobbyist, DRMC officials featured tonight at county legislative body
(Local News ~ 12/11/07)
A lobbyist from the Tennessee County Commissioners Association is scheduled to explain to the Dyer County Commission tonight why the state's Open Meetings Law should allow for discussions among elected officials currently deemed illegal. According to the agenda sent to commissioners, the commission is considering "endorsing proposals made by the state concerning Sunshine Law."...
- DHS choir members named all-state (Local News ~ 12/11/07)
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Red Ribbon Week essay winners selected
(Local News ~ 12/11/07)
"Drugs are consuming America and it's time that we put our foot down." Those are the words of Hayden Austin, an eighth-grader at Three Oaks Middle School and first-place winner in his grade division for the countywide Red Ribbon Week essay contest. Dyer County schools concluded this year's anti-drug campaign on Wednesday, Nov. ...
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Trucker reported missing for week
(Local News ~ 12/11/07)
A missing-persons report has been issued for a Dyersburg truck driver who has not been seen since Dec. 4. John Little, 45, a driver for Bur-Kan Transportation, 324 Nathan Lane, is described as six-feet tall, 250 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes...
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Suspect, 17, accused of robbing cab at gunpoint
(Local News ~ 12/11/07)
A 17-year-old repeat offender was held on a $100,000 bond Monday in city court after he was arrested for the Friday morning robbery of a cabdriver at gunpoint. Larry James "Snoogy" Wallace, 1214 Tibbs St., who has been emancipated as a legal adult, is charged with aggravated robbery for the 5:45 a.m. attack...
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Finley soldier hurt by bombing in Iraq
(Local News ~ 12/11/07)
A Finley man is recovering in Kuwait after being hurt by a roadside bomb in Iraq in October. Justin Andrew Hill, 19, is the son of LaDonna and Billy Hill of Finley and a 2005 Dyer County High School graduate. He is assigned to the U.S. Army's First Cavalry Division and was working missions from the Qauyyarah West Airfield about 150 miles north of Baghdad when he was hit by the explosion...
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Obituaries for Dec. 11, 2007
(Obituary ~ 12/11/07)
Wanda Hilliard O'Dell, 81, of Halls, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007 in Memphis. She was a homemaker and a member and elder of Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Halls. Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Poplar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Poplar Grove Cemetery near Halls...
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