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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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Movie Review

Popeye [DVD]

Popeye [DVD]

In the highest echelon of glorious misfires, Robert Altmans Popeye ranks in the top tier. A would-be blockbuster cofinanced by two major studios (Paramount and Disney), Popeye is a bizarre hybrid of high-concept Hollywood profiteering and the intrepid artistry of a once-vaunted auteur at the edge of a deep career decline that would last a decade. Add into all that the fact that it i ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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