Sunday 20th May, 2012
Crews find missing teen in Tennessee River
APNewsNow. LINDEN, Tenn. (AP) - Search crews have found the body of a 16-year-old boy who went missing in the Tennessee River. WSMV-TV (http://bit.ly/L9009y) in Nashville reports crews found the ...
Casinos in Arkansas Are an Uncertain Bet
(West Memphis, AR) Two companies are proposing amendments to Arkansas's constitution in order to legalize full-service casinos in the state. Nancy Todd, a political consultant and professional ...
The Walking Dead comes to East Tennessee
The Walking Dead have invaded East Tennessee, or at least the crew from the hit AMC show of the same name. The actors and crew came to the Green Acres Flea Market off Alcoa Highway, Sunday. The ...
Accident in Memphis sends four to hospitals, snarls I-240 traffic
Commercial AppealThe accident happened just after 2 p.m. in the westbound lanes west of Airways, according to the Memphis Fire Department. A car was overturned and people were trapped, the department ...
Heather Walker, Memphis Mother, Banned From Facebook After Posting Photos Of Terminally Ill Son
Huffington Postanencephaly, a rare birth defect where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull . To share his memory with family and friends, Walker took ...
Two injured by hit-and-run driver in the Cooper-Young area of Memphis
Commercial AppealAbout 12:30 a.m., the women were hit by a blue Ford Expedition at Cooper and Oliver about 12:30 a.m.. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene east-bound on ...
Kobe blames Gasol for Game 4 loss MAY 20
General SourcesLos Angeles Lakers trudged off the Staples Center floor late Saturday, a single loss now separating them from season's end, another fourth-quarter collapse once again causing their undoing. ...
Obama Closes the Gap in Tennessee
Political WireVanderbilt University poll shows President Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee. Romney barely edged Obama among likely voters, 42% to 41%. ...
Survivors of Joplin, Mo., tornado pick up the pieces, move forward a year later
Commercial AppealChildren play in Joplin, Mo., on a freshly poured concrete slab at Jeff Taylor Memorial Park, a FEMA trailer site named for the Riverside, Mo., policeman killed by lightning when volunteering after ...
No hints at violence in sovereign citizen Jerry Kane's file
Commercial AppealAfter sovereign citizen Jerry Kane was pulled over on May 20, 2010, his son, Joe Kane, opened fire on Interstate 40 and shot and killed Sgt. Brandon Paudert and officer Bill ...
Memphis-area planners consider area around I-269
Commercial AppealLinking Millington and Hernando in the most roundabout of ways, Interstate 269 will be more than just a 60-mile bypass loop around Memphis when it's completed in the next five or so ...
Olive Branch Elementary honors parents
Commercial AppealOn a recent field trip Olive Branch Elementary School parent Phillip Saturday volunteered to chaperon his son's kindergarten class on a recent outing. Saturday a member of the school's ...
Wendi C. Thomas: We can balance moral budget
Commercial AppealThis budget would include $450,000 for people experiencing homelessness, funding that got preliminary approval Wednesday from seven of the 13 county ...
Hernando team takes home top honors at World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
Commercial AppealMelissa Cookston (right) of Yazoo's Delta Q, along with Beverly Weaver soak in the news of their team's victory Saturday as the grand champion of the 2012 Memphis in May World Championship ...
Sparkly prize rewards Downtown knowledge
Commercial AppealArmed with cellphones, more than 300 people disregarded traffic signals and ignored irate drivers Saturday as they darted across streets and snaked through alleys vying for a diamond in Downtown ...
Review: Feisty Miranda Lambert fires up Southaven crowd
Commercial Appeal"On Fire" is an uncharacteristically self-serving, if accurate, name for country singer Miranda Lambert's current tour, which stopped at Southaven's Landers Center Friday ...
Chris Peck: Memphis needs long-term plan
Commercial AppealMemphians share a certain bond of common understanding about this question. Living here, you learn quickly to use one of these chestnuts to fill in the blank when any conversation includes the ...
Otis L. Sanford: Chumney bid is 'quiet' for lots of reasons
Commercial AppealThe reason Chumney is at a huge disadvantage is multifaceted. For one thing, despite her political successes throughout the 1990s, Chumney is best known now for a string of election ...
In brief: Southaven awaiting $850K transportation grant
Commercial AppealSouthaven officials said the Mississippi Department of Transportation plans to soon release an $850,000 state grant the city was set to receive to construct a nearly 3-mile bike path and walking ...
Mississippi Outdoors: May 20, 2012
Commercial AppealBe safe: National Safe Boating Week runs through Saturday, and officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks recently posted a news ...
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