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  • Tenn. bill to allow grocery store wine sales fails

    When the recession hit and RV sales plunged (58 percent from 2006 from 2009), unemployment in Goshen, Ind. soared to the highest in the nation: a staggering 20.9 percent in March ...

  • DeSoto County Adding More Tornado Sirens

    DESOTO COUNTY, MS (abc24.com) - What if a tornado like the one that hit Oklahoma struck here? DeSoto County's Emergency Management Agency is asking that question this week.Their goal is to make sure the county is as prepared as possible, that includes being able to warn every citizen of severe weather."I see it really having the potential to save some lives after what happened in ...

  • Boy Scouts to Accept Openly Gay Boys Gay Adults Still Banned

    GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal.Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout ...

  • Germantown proposes cutting Tennessee Shakespeare Company from budget

    Vanessa Morosco and Tony Molina as the Macbeths in Tennessee Shakespeare Company's production of "Macbeth". Germantown has proposed funding cuts to the Tennessee Shakespeare Company, leading to a letter-writing campaign from supporters in hopes of getting the money returned. The $70,000 was part of cuts as the suburb tries to hold its property tax rate increase to 44.5 cents, but ...

  • Oklahoma tornado stunned storm chasers from Memphis

    Left to right: Storm chasers Christian Johnson, Jeremy Johnson and Jake Riley. Christian and Jake are from StormChaseTN. (Photo courtesy of Jeremy ...


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Viewed in retrospect, one can easily recognize Christopher Nolans noiresque no-budget feature debut Following as a harbinger of things to come, an exercise in the kind of temporal gymnastics, sleight-of-hand shifts in perspective, and rigorous insights into the dark depths of human na ... ...

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  • Memorial Day changes in Shelby County

    City Hall will be closed. Residential garbage collection will be delayed a day. The Arlington Preservation Tennessee Antiquities is holding a Memorial Day service at 9 a.m. at Arlington Cemetery on Chester ...

  • Beale Street Club Owners Hope to Re-open Friday

    MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - Club 152, which was shut down last week by the District Attorney, expects to be back in business by this weekend. With the Sunset Symphony and a Grizzlies playoff game this weekend, club owners have a sense of urgency to get Club 152 reopened as soon as possible. The club's lawyer spent all day in negotiations with prosecutors. The nuisance order was set to be ...

  • DeSoto Co. Residents Urged to Report Flood Damage

    HERNANDO, MS (abc24.com) - Supervisors and first responders in DeSoto County are urging homeowners to report flood damage. How many reports they receive will determine whether the county gets state help for cleanup and recovery.Tuesday's storms are long past, but DeSoto County is still dealing with what the weather left behind."Our people were out all night Tuesday night, all day ...

  • Norfolk Southern Opens Bulk Transfer Facility in Tennessee

    has unveiled its new $5.9 million Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer terminal in Knoxville, Tenn., which will allow customers to transfer a large array of commodities between railcars and trucks.The Class I railroad's new terminal, adjacent to its railyard, is near Interstate 275, I-40 and I-75. The facility, which features 48 car spots and a truck scale, can handle dry and liquid bulk commodities ...

  • Beale Street club reaches tentative agreement to reopen

    The Beale Street nightspot was closed last week as a public nuisance after authorities said a six-month undercover investigation found illegal drug sales, fights and other criminal activity ...

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