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  • Tennessee sends help to Oklahoma so can you

    A number of Tennesseans are on their way to Oklahoma to help with search and rescue and recovery efforts after Monday's devastating tornado. Early Tuesday, a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle left Chattanooga with a Knoxville volunteer for the 13 hour drive to Moore. Once there, they will provide hot meals and other relief supplies to tornado victims. Louie Crowe from Knoxville and ...

  • Powerful thunderstorms may rake East Tennessee this afternoon

    KNOXVILLE -- A line of thunderstorms packing 60 mph winds with the potential for large hail is making its way across Middle Tennessee and should hit East Tennessee later this afternoon, according to the National Weather ...

  • Whalum makes case to judge on school board election loss

    Kenneth Whalum Jr. was in Chancery Court Tuesday, fighting to have the District 4 school board election last summer voided. Whalum lost by 106 votes to challenger Kevin ...

  • Council committee votes to pull RDC funding on cobblestones

    A $1.1 million budget request to restore the cobblestone landing on the Mississippi River was voted down on Tuesday by a Memphis City Council ...

  • Tenn. senate head questions stimulus use for cuts

    Electric car maker Tesla Motors has shifted into a good place: CEO Elon Musk intends to use the potential $1 billion from a new stock offering to pay off the maker's $465 million in Department of Energy ...


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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [DVD]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [DVD]

About midway through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Raoul Duke, the alter-ego of gonzo journalist and cult icon Hunter S. Thompson, is standing in the middle of a Las Vegas casino, completely blitzed out of his mind on any number of drugs, and in the voice-over narration, we hear him asking himself what he is doing there. He is supposed to be there covering a cross-country motorcycle race ... ...

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  • Study finds suburban poverty rate increasing in Memphis suburbs

    Discussions of poverty are often centered around urban blight among the nations inner cities, but a study released yesterday by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program should change that perception. In Memphis, for instance, the report found the percent change from 2000 to 2011 in the number of poor Memphians was 33.4 percent within the city limits and 42.5 percent in the ...

  • Local Opportunities to Help Oklahoma Relief Efforts

    MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - Several Mid-South business and charity organizations are calling for volunteers and donations to help relief efforts around Oklahoma City after the area was devastated by a massive tornado Monday.Newby's, located at 539 S Highland Street by the University of Memphis, is collecting the following items to be delivered to Moore, Oklahoma to aid those whose lives were ...

  • MATA driver wasnt wearing seatbelt in fatal crash police say

    Firefighters work the scene of an accident on I240 where a MATA driver was killed Tuesday morning after she was ejected from her bus. A cement truck collided with the bus at the South Parkway on ramp where the truck overturned blocking traffic on the freeway for ...

  • McKinney pleads guilty to second-degree murder in death of Memphis police officer

    After three trials and several years on death row, Timothy McKinney pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1997 death of Memphis police officer Don Williams, in exchange for a sentence of 15 ...

  • Slain musician Cunningham to be honored with brass note on Beale

    B. B. Cunningham Jr. was lead singer of the Memphis rock band the Hombres. The band scored a hit for 13 weeks in 1967 with the song "Let It Out (Let It All Hang ...

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