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Massive Brawl Erupts at Memphis Juvenile Court
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - It was chaos at Memphis and Shelby County Juvenile Court. A near riot broke out as 50 teenagers got out of their cells and started fighting late Monday night.It happened around 11:15 Monday night after a 16-year-old set off the building's sprinkler system."If they're all out at one time, they could overpower anybody," says Robert Denine. ...
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Memphis Hopes to Lure Justin Timberlake to FedEx St. Jude Classic
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - He brought sexy back. Now Memphians want him to come back. There's a campaign to get Justin Timberlake to play at next year's FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament.Golfers and those who couldn't care less about the sport all agree Timberlake and the tournament would be a winning combination."I think it's a great idea," says Scott ...
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Memphis Centenarian Celebrates 36 Years of Hospital Service
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - A Memphis woman is celebrating two milestones.Tuesday is Ms. Sarah Freeman's 100th birthday. Methodist South held a celebration for Ms. Freeman that morning.They're also honoring her 36 years of service as a "Pink Lady" at the hospital.Ms. Freeman credits her longevity to the man upstairs. "It's the Lord's blessing that he ...
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Davis to Attend Last Southaven Board Meeting as Mayor
SOUTHAVEN, MS (localmemphis.com) - It's the end of an era in Southaven. Tuesday is the last board meeting for Mayor Greg Davis and five aldermen. Davis, who has been mayor for 16 years, lost his re-election bid June 4 to Darren Musselwhite. There are some Southaven residents who are sad to see Davis leave, but others say the city is overdue for a change.Resident Ruth Bennett said, "I ...
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Aladdin Jr. opens this weekend in Germantown
At Germantown Community Theater, area children are escaping the drudgery of classrooms and textbooks this summer to spend time in the magical realms of Agrabah and ...
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Southaven mayoral candidate ask to examine ballots
Two weeks after finishing in last place in the Southaven mayor's race, Democratic candidate Coria Williams has asked the city to examine ballots from the June 4 ...
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Section of Bartletts Brunswick Road to close to improve sight lines at intersection
Drivers along part of Brunswick Road in Bartlett will need to look for an alternate route as the suburb closes a stretch between Ellis and Patches to make an intersection ...
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Memphis Cat Rescue Mewtopia Seeks Help with Relocation
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - More than 100 cats will be without a home, at least temporarily, as Memphis cat rescue group scrambles to move to a new facility.Mewtopia Cat Rescue’s landlord will not renew the group’s lease that ended this month. The organization has been in their East Memphis building for 12 years; now it has to vacate by the end of July, and their new facility ...
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Former Memphis officer arraigned on vehicular homicide charges
A former Memphis police officer was arraigned Tuesday on criminal charges stemming from an on-duty traffic accident last year in which a Mississippi woman and her daughter were ...
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Memphis lawyer disbarred must pay back five clients
The action by the Tennessee Supreme Court follows several years of complaints and suspensions involving ethical misconduct allegations, such as lack of diligence, incompetent representation and misrepresentations to clients, other lawyers and to the Board of Professional ...
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Memphis City Councils Budget Talks Underway
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - Memphis City Council members are debating right now whether to cut hundreds, possibly thousands of city jobs, or to raise taxes to an historic high.Meanwhile, the Tennessee State Comptroller is keeping an eye on everything. He says if the city council can't produce a balanced budget, he will.Every year when the council votes on a budget, it's a long ...
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Bartlett Police Officer Charged with Assault
BARTLETT, TN (localmemphis.com) - A Bartlett police office has been charged with Simple Assault stemming from a domestic fight Sunday night.According to the police affidavit, police responded to a domestic complaint at Methodist North Hospital on Sunday, June 16. The female victim, who is the wife of Bartlett Officer Quentin Crowley, said sometime after midnight they were fighting over marital ...
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Brothers Sought for 1-Year-Olds Shooting
JACKSON, TN (localmemphis.com) - Jackson police are searching for two brothers accused of a shooting that sent a one-year-old to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, June 17, at The Villages Apartments in Jackson, Tennessee. Investigators say there was a confrontation involving Tony and Justin Byrd, who are ...
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Two Bartlett police officers investigated for separate incidents
Two Bartlett police officers are in trouble from recent events -- one arrested over the weekend on a domestic assault charge, and a second charged administratively for abuse of the department's sick leave ...
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LIVE UPDATES Memphis City Council tries to pass budget
Our City Hall reporter, Toby Sells, will post periodic updates from Tuesday's Memphis City Council meeting, with members hoping to pass a budget for fiscal year 2014 (which begins July 1). The meeting starts at 3:30 ...
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Live on Local 24 Midday Taking Diabetes to Heart
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - Celebrity chef Art Smith was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2008 and weighed more than 325 pounds. After a regiment of exercise and healthy eating, Chef Smith joins Local 24 Midday to share the key to his success in managing the disease.As a chef who has type 2 diabetes, cooks for a living and is around food all the time, he knows it can be challenging to ...
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3 men in custody after carjacking collision
A Dodge Durango crashed into the FedEx store at Third and Union on Tuesday afternoon. The vehicle was allegedly stolen during a carjacking, according to Memphis ...
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Senate OKs Tenn. bill to ban texting while driving
While Chrysler and the federal government wrangle over whether a Jeep recall is warranted, owners of the 2.7 million affected vehicles may find their options haven't ...
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City Council budget meeting Lots of ideas no easy solutions
The Memphis City Council mulled budget options in a nearly three-hour session of budget hearings Tuesday morning that brought few new ideas but allowed council members to state where they stand before what could be a final budget vote Tuesday ...
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University of Memphis fares well in national ratings on teacher training
The university was just one of 13 schools nationwide with three stars in more than one program -- its undergraduate program that trains elementary teachers and its graduate program for middle and high school ...
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Act of Vandalism Starts Huge Fight at Juvenile Court
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - A late-night act of vandalism prompted a fight to break out among dozens of detainees at Juvenile Court on Monday.Investigators say just before midnight on Monday, June 17, a 16-year-old being held at Juvenile Court managed to use a long mop handle to break the sprinkler system in his cell. When the sprinkler system went off, all of the cell doors opened ...
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Teenager sparks large fight at Juvenile Court
As many as 50 detainees at Juvenile Court brawled late Monday night after they were accidentally released from their cells, officials said ...
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Cathie Anderson Pop artist Tennessee Loveless features Sacramento icons in painting
Troy Carlson is well outnumbered by Mickey Mouse as he looks over the artwork by Tennessee Loveless. Carlson's Stage Nine Entertainment Store in Old Sacramento will be the site of the TENxTENxTEN show of Loveless' work Saturday and ...
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Orchestra Lays Off Catering Dining Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The financially strapped Nashville Symphony has laid off its catering and dining staff.The Tennessean reported symphony CEO Alan Valentine and Board Chairman Ed Goodrich announced late Monday what they called a "difficult decision." They said affected workers were told Monday that their jobs would end Aug. 4. The number of people being laid off wasn't ...
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63 Cited after Teens Party Got Out of Hand
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Madison County Sheriff's deputies have cited 63 people after teenagers were caught drinking at a party thrown by a 19-year-old.According to The Jackson Sun, Sheriff David Woolfork said people gathered at the home of James Mac Hardwick Jr. and Sara Kathleen Hardwick. Woolfork said the couple knew there was underage drinking at the party held by their son, ...
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Memphis needs to become metro city government
The politics involved in discussions on whether or not the city of Memphis and Shelby County should be consolidated into a metropolitan government are often heated and always divisive. The issue is a controversial one with many opinions; one advocacy group believes that the failure to consolidate may hamper the development of city and wider county area.
Memphis and Shelby County are among 31 other pairs of cities and counties in the United States considering consolidation into a metropolitan government, as well as 6 taking steps towards consolidation and a further 43 that have either merged fully or partially. As the county seat of Shelby County, Memphis is the economic, transport and communications hub of the county, the land area of the city alone takes up almost of the entire county. Read more
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