Provides the latest RSS feeds for Memphis News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Memphis Sun.com http://www.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:59:04 -0400 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:59:04 -0400 30 And it seems Nashville city officials and Sounds management can't help but squabble about every little development involving the aging South Nashville attraction.Yet attendance at Greer Stadium has he... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16374382/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:04:34 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16374382/ HONOLULU (AP) - The U.S. Marshals Service says it's arrested a U.S. Navy sailor wanted for allegedly raping a boy in Memphis, Tennessee. John Davis was arrested Friday at Marine Corps Base Hawaii i... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371170/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:30:04 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371170/ Memphis, TN - Traffic hasn't been allowed on Main Street in Downtown Memphis since the Mid-America Mall was created back in 1976. The mall runs along Main from Poplar Avenue to Beale Street and was on... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371172/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:30:01 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371172/ Memphis, TN -- We often hear it's the young and elderly we need to watch out for when the temperatures rise, but people in the prime of the lives also need to play it safe in the extreme heat.Many tim... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371171/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:30:00 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371171/ Memphis, TN- Police are looking for a man who talked his way into a senior living center and stabbed an elderly woman in the face with a fork.It happened around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371169/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:30:03 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16371169/ A Tennessee Army National Guard unit will be leaving next month for a yearlong deployment to Iraq. Guard officials said Tuesday approximately 80 soldiers from the Headquarters and Headquarters Company... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16368251/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:29:57 -0400 WBIR http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16368251/ (Memphis 7/22/2008) Crime in Memphis takes on a whole new meaning. It's not just victims who suffer, it's also witnesses. An 11-year-old boy witnessed a violent carjacking Friday in a Wal-Mart... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369189/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:59:51 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369189/ FRANKLIN, Tenn — Nissan Motor Co President Carlos Ghosn said Tuesday the automaker has reached an agreement with the U.S. state of Tennessee to jointly study the infrastructure needed to suppor... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16367486/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:39:17 -0400 Japan Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16367486/ ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Athens say a man detained a suspected drunken driver in a school yard before the suspect was given his eighth DUI charge. Officers said Randall Dewayne Hyde, 41, rest... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369379/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:55:42 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369379/ SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) - The owner of a southern Tennessee furniture store has been charged with killing one of his employees. Ken Qualls, owner of Savannah Furniture Exchange, was arrested on Tuesda... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369380/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:55:35 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16369380/ Crews work to clean up a major accident that injured several people in Arkansas. PRAIRIE-MONROE COUNTY, AR - The Arkansas State Police are on the scene of an accident that happened near the 203 mile... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16366260/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:45 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16366260/ george.brown@wreg.com (Shelby County 7/22/2008) A Shelby County deputy was not hurt today when his squad car was rammed by burglars trying to get away. It all happened in the 5400 block of Sungrove Ci... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16364111/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:52 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16364111/ MPD Enforcer 2.0 Blog MEMPHIS, TN - The City of Memphis wants to know who's operating a controversial blog. Its called the "MPD Enforcer." Bloggers regularly criticize the department and... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16366259/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:45 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16366259/ DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Kid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall. DeKalb County's district attorney's off... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16364270/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:49:21 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16364270/ KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville police are investigating the slaying of a 19 month-old boy.Joseph Manning Jr. was admitted to East Tennessee Children's Hospital early Saturday morning and died aroun... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361001/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:53:55 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361001/ FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that Nissan (Nasdaq: NSANY) and the State of Tennessee are forming a partnership to promote zero-emission... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16357831/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:10:03 -0400 Congoo http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16357831/ Eds: APNewsNow. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Utility crews worked through the night to restore power after a powerful storm disrupted electricity to more than 45,000 customers in the Knoxville area. ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358856/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:34 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358856/ FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A 25 year-old Wisconsin soldier based at Fort Campbell has been killed in Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that Army Lt. Nick A. Dewhirst of Onalaska was kil... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358857/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:35 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358857/ FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A former psychologist who evaluated sex offenders at North Dakota's state mental hospital faces federal charges of possession of child pornography.Joseph Belanger, 61, pleaded not g... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361000/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:53:54 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361000/ Police Search for 3 Suspects Who Stole an Uzi Tech 9 and a 9mm handgun, among other Items, from a Home in Shelby County and Rammed a Deputy's Car While Escaping http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361003/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:53:56 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361003/ LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A Little Rock man faces a capital murder charge after police say he slammed a 1 year-old girl into a wall, then told officers the girl fell out of bed.Investigators say Patrick Lynn... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361002/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:53:57 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16361002/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A jury member says reaching a verdict was difficult at the public corruption trial of former state Sen. John Ford. The 66 year-old Ford was convicted in Nashville last week... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358858/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:36 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16358858/ South Lake Tahoe, CA - "Li'l Smokey," a black bear cub rescued by a firefighter, is fighting for his life in the hands of a California wildlife care center. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355460/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:51:14 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355460/ YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) -- A gathering for professional wrestlers at a suburban New York City restaurant ended with the arrest of a wrestler known as "The Sandman." http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355461/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:51:13 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355461/ Advertisement With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon and concerns mounting about climate change, interest in cleaner vehicles is growing rapidly. All major automakers are developing envir... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16350436/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:54:26 -0400 The Detroit News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16350436/ Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. is a third-party administrator specializing in management of employer sponsored benefit programs. Founded in 1975, MAA offers claims administration for self-funded... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16351551/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:33:01 -0400 Insurance Journal http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16351551/ Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Attacking Nazi Death Camp Survivor A New Jersey man who once claimed insanity was convicted Monday of a hate crime for accosting Nazi death camp survivor and scholar El... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355458/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:51:16 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355458/ OVERTON COUNTY, TN - An Amber Alert has been canceled for a missing 12 year-old. Police believed Heather Bull may have been in Middle or East Tennessee.Investigators in Overton County, Tennessee say H... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355459/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:51:15 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16355459/ george.brown@wreg.com (Memphis 7/22/2008) New Memphis City Schools superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash announced he is making major changes at the school and administrative level. Among the changes announc... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16352722/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:21:17 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16352722/ Eds: APNewsNow. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - There's a new chimpanzee at the Knoxville Zoo. Workers arrived Saturday morning to discover a 32-year-old chimp named Daisy had given birth - the first ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16352921/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:42:50 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16352921/ A story about a favorite Tennessee song accompanies Nissan's dedication of its new North America headquarters 25 years after becoming the first automaker in the South. While working almost three decad... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342001/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:44 -0400 WBIR http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342001/ Where: Veteran's Memorial Park, 115 Floyd Mayfield Drive La Vergne, 793-3224.Why: Call 287-8690 for further details.Big Band DanceWhen: 7:30 p.m. July 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Sept. 6.Where: Cent... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341870/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:40 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341870/ But enrollment has been building slowly. Current enrollment is 24,176 children and the state has said its goal was to reach 40,000 by the end of fiscal year 2009."We're very hopeful we're going to get... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342697/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:48 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342697/ "The numbers are not stacking up yet, and the major impact of that is that it opens up the possibility of having to do something more unpleasant, which is (in) the form of actual layoffs, later on in ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344448/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:36 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344448/ He said that the average individual ratepayer owns about $1,824 worth of his or her local electric cooperative, and that many cooperatives could afford to refund 10 percent to 30 percent of that to me... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344447/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:35 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344447/ Metro Nashville's new nonprofit grant process is making life easier for some organizations and more challenging for others.The city announced $2 million in grants to 26 organizations in three categori... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344446/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:27:33 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16344446/ Paul McCulloch joined American E&S Insurance Brokers as senior vice president and broker in its Nashville, Tenn. office. McCulloch will focus on building national programs and facilities. With more t... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342792/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:11:40 -0400 Insurance Journal http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16342792/ tom.powell@wreg.com (Memphis 7/21/2008) -- Residents along Brackenbury Lane in Cordova are picking up after a pop-up thunderstorm caused some minor damage Monday. Jeff Summers says the wind picked up ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16343442/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:01:31 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16343442/ Memphis, TN - Ten days have passed since the California-based bank, IndyMac, went belly up. IndyMac is the seventh U.S. bank to fail since the credit meltdown started last summer. It is the 5th bank t... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341027/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:36:09 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341027/ Memphis, TN- A Mid-South lawn care company is now under state investigation after 105 complaints to the BBB from customers.We first told you about "Turfco" in August 2007. On Wednesday, July... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341029/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:36:08 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341029/ Memphis, TN -- MPD Homicide Investigators are questioning the daughter of a a 67-year old man stabbed to death at the Belle Harbour Apartments on Mud Island today.Eyewitnesses told police the man was ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341028/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:36:07 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16341028/ KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Severe thunderstorms have rolled through the Knoxville area, leaving more than 37,000 customers without power. No injuries were reported early Monday evening after the heavy... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339606/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:38:02 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339606/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A small group of Tennessee National Guard soldiers will be deploying this month to spend a year in Africa conducting humanitarian support operations. The 775th Engineer Deta... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339604/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:38:01 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339604/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gibson Guitar Corp. has begun promoting its instruments in the virtual world. The Nashville company is following the trend of other companies such as IBM and Nissan North A... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339605/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:38:00 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16339605/ MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a 67 year-old man died from a possible stab wound, on Mud Island in Memphis.According to investigators, police were called to the 1300 block Armand around 2:53 p.m., Monday,... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337012/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:46:46 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337012/ This is a news release sent to Eyewitness News Everywhere by the City of Memphis: MEMPHIS, TN (July 21, 2008) Current tempretaures are now heading toward the upper 90s and residents who are vulnerable... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337013/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:46:44 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337013/ Bartlett, TN -- A Bartlett security company is warning its Mid-South customers to beware of people coming to the door, claiming to sell or upgrade alarm systems.Clyde Harden of Interactive Security El... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337011/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:46:47 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337011/ WASHINGTON (AP) - Government inspectors have found the same salmonella strain responsible for a nationwide food-poisoning outbreak in a Mexican-grown jalapeno in a Texas plant, prompting a new warning... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337014/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:46:43 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16337014/ Bobby Joseph Jones has been charged for Felony Child Abuse of a 3 year-old girl in Brighton, Tennessee. BRIGHTON, TN – Tipton County Sheriff's Deputies say a 4 year-old child died in an Ohio Hospi... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332020/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:36 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332020/ MEMPHIS, TN – Investigators are searching for a robbery suspect who led police on a chase that ended in a wreck.According to police, a man walked into the ABC Wireless store on East Rains Road and r... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332018/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:35 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332018/ MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a man has been arrested for using counterfeit $100 bills at downtown Memphis businesses.According to investigators, Quincy Johnson has been arrested and charged with four co... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332015/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:33 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332015/ El Paso police say a Fort Bliss soldier was kicked in the face, stabbed and raped -- allegedly by her spouse -- before she was abducted from her off-post apartment, according to an affidavit obtained ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16328939/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:20:05 -0400 ABC 7 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16328939/ UNION CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Long-time West Tennessee radio personality Steward Byars has died. He was 48. Byars broadcast a morning show on KYTN in Union City and WCMT in Martin for more than 20 year... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330026/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:02:03 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330026/ (Getty Images) MAMMOTH, Mo. (AP) - Ozark County authorities say a 22 year-old Arkansas man was shot and killed in a dispute with a landowner at a southern Missouri creek. Sheriff Raymond Pace to... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332021/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:37 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332021/ Paramedics work on a man who, police say, was shot in the area of Winchester and Outland. (My Reporter: Marcus Walter) MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis police are on the scene of an 18 year-old shot in South... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332017/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:34 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332017/ (Getty Images) MEMPHIS, TN – Memphis police are asking for your help identifying a man who is in extremely critical condition following a hit and run.According to investigators, the hit and run ha... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332016/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:33 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332016/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville public health officials said two rabid bats were found in the city. WTVF-TV reported three house cats were euthanized last week after encountering one of the bats... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330025/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:02:02 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330025/ TIPTON COUNTY, TN –Sheriff's Deputies are searching for a man who they say is wanted for a home invasion in Tipton County.According to investigators, a man walked into a home in the 9000 block of Mt... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332019/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:36 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332019/ This is a news release sent to Eyewitness News Everywhere: July 21, 2008The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Memphis, TN has issued a Heat Advisory for the Memphis/Shelby County area. That ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332014/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:02:32 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16332014/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Forecasters said summer heat and humidity have reached cautionary levels in western and some south-central Tennessee counties. The National Weather Service issued a heat ad... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330024/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:02:01 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16330024/ American City Business Journals , Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the pr... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16331147/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:48:40 -0400 Memphis Business Journal http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16331147/ Memphis, TN -- Police say a man was shot and killed at an old car wash that has been turned into a neighborhood hangout in North Memphis called "Da Club".According to police, the homicide ha... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326840/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:38:25 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326840/ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A report to be released in Birmingham says HIV has taken hold in the Deep South, plaguing some of the poorest people in the country and creating a health disaster. The repo... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326839/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:38:26 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326839/ LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas wildlife authorities are sending a pair of barn swallows to the Smithsonian to confirm what could be an incredibly rare find: a set of conjoined twin birds. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326841/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:38:22 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326841/ MARIANNA, Ark. (AP) -- Trial is to start Monday, July 21, 2008, in Marianna for a man charged with three counts of capital murder for killing his mother-in-law and her parents. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326843/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:38:21 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326843/ MIAMI (AP) -- Tropical Storm Dolly is moving over Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and headed for the Gulf of Mexico, where it could become a hurricane Tuesday, July 21, 2008. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326842/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:38:20 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16326842/ Memphis, TN- Memphis firefighters are battling a fire at an Southeast Memphis apartment complex. Investigators say it is suspicious. The 2-alarm fire broke out Sunday evening, July 20, 2008 at the Ede... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16317789/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:20:54 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16317789/ george.brown@wreg.com (Memphis 7/20/2008) Residents of Ross Ridge like to take pride in the way their neighborhood looks. They have a home owners association, neighborhood watch program and manicured ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16316040/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:50:38 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16316040/ (Getty Images/File) MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The county mayors at Knoxville and Memphis say their residents should be able to attend community colleges for free. Mayors A.C. Wharton of Shelby Count... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16308169/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:38:29 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16308169/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Only Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia spend less on their local libraries than Tennessee. According to Nashville newspaper The Tennessean, communities in this state spen... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16307265/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:47:04 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16307265/ Jesse Jackson (Frazer Harrison/File, Getty Images) LOS ANGELES (AP) - The owner of a comedy nightclub in Los Angeles says the Reverend Jesse Jackson should pay a fine for using the N-word during a b... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306058/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:45 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306058/ WASHBURN, Mo. (AP) - Three people were found dead in a small town in southwest Missouri, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The patrol said a trooper on Friday night saw three people lying in... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306059/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:44 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306059/ (Getty Images/file) TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas inmate enjoyed 23 minutes of freedom today that could cost him many more years behind bars. A prison spokeswoman says 31 year-old Joe D. Keaton... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306060/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:44 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306060/ WEST FORK, Ark. (AP) - A 17 year-old Arkansas girl has been rescued after spending about 17 hours trapped in a cold, dark cave at Devil's Den State Park in northwest Arkansas. Authorities say Bian... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306061/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:43 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306061/ CLINTON, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of an Anderson County deputy has died after the motorcycle her husband was driving crashed into a van that turned in front of them. 22 year-old Crystal May, of Heiskell,... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306062/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:42 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16306062/ It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville, Tenn., suburb for a routine traffic violation. By the... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16300754/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:14:50 -0400 Deseret News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16300754/ Posted on: Sunday, 20 July 2008, 00:00 CDT A for-profit Tennessee psychiatric service company has sued Aliquippa Community Hospital for nearly $2 million, claiming the medical center failed to live u... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16298769/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:09:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16298769/ (Memphis 7/19/2008) The last three weeks have been a nightmare for Shawanna Roach. On June 27th, the ceiling in her rental home on Durby Circle collapsed while she and her five children were inside. T... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16299159/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:40:53 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16299159/ RAWLS SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - A man who attempted to rob a woman in a Rawls Springs home ended up shooting himself in the leg and was facing an amputation, according to the Forrest County Sheriff's Depa... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295928/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:42:25 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295928/ JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - The Madison County Sheriff's Department said an inmate was found dead at the J. Alexander Leech Criminal Justice Complex. The Jackson Sun reports 48 year-old Diane Gray was b... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295926/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:42:23 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295926/ Mississippi Death Row Inmate Dale Leo Bishop JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop is just days away from the execution he asked for eight years ago. Bishop is sched... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295927/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:42:22 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295927/ stephanie.scurlock@wreg.com MEMPHIS (07/19/2008) - For the first time the family of a Mid-South blues radio D.J. is speaking out about the violence that has ripped through their family. It's the t... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295070/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:12:03 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295070/ CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Volkswagen AG is ready to start hiring for its new $1 billion Chattanooga assembly plant, starting with about 50 jobs related to purchasing and the start of construction. ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295133/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16295133/ The suspension applies to his new team Salavat Yulaev Ufa's games in the inaugural Champions Hockey League, a tournament to determine Europe's top club team that starts in October. It also would apply... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16286286/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:05:44 -0400 The Tennessean http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16286286/ brian.kuebler@wreg.com (Memphis 7/18/2008) Reached by phone today, new Chief of School Security Gerald Darling told News Channel 3 he is excited to work with the community in order to make schools saf... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16286225/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:41:26 -0400 News 3 http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16286225/ The "Inn Town Suites" motel was robbed at gunpoint Friday, July 18, 2008.Memphis Police were on the scene at the motel located in the 3500 block of Hickory Hill Road around 6:00 p.m.Tenants ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16284563/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:33:16 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16284563/ Hernando, MS -- Eyewitness News Everywhere uncovered a DeSoto County bail bondsman, shut down by the state of Mississippi, because his clients weren't showing up to court.A Southaven woman says Garner... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16281053/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:47:55 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16281053/ By By DUNCAN MANSFIELD KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Valley Authority's "megasite" economic development program is proving to be a megahit with major manufacturers.The plan hatched by the nation'... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16280088/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:04:29 -0400 MSNBC.com http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16280088/ PITTSBURGH (AP) - Doctors on Friday said children suffering from high levels of sodium in their blood - like a 4-month-old infant allegedly poisoned with salt water by his mother this week - are at hi... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278776/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:47:17 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278776/ PITTSBURGH (AP) - Doctors on Friday said children suffering from high levels of sodium in their blood - like a 4 month-old infant allegedly poisoned with salt water by his mother this week - are at hi... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278777/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:47:16 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278777/ KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) - The prosecution continues presentation of its murder case against Clifford Leon Houston, charged in the killing of a Roane County deputy and another man. The Knoxville News-... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278779/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:47:15 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278779/ NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former state Sen. John Ford has been convicted in a federal public corruption trial in Nashville. The jury returned guilty verdicts on all six counts - two of wire fraud an... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278780/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:47:14 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16278780/ MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Murfreesboro police detective says a Rutherford County sheriff's deputy in an unmarked car struck and killed an 11 year-old girl. Detective James Boske said the girl w... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16275850/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:38:27 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16275850/ WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) - Highway workers will close a lane on the Interstate 40 bridge between Arkansas and Tennessee next week to conduct a routine inspection of the structure. The Arkansas High... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16275851/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:38:26 -0400 Eyewitness News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ca80f72a3dd6ba88/id/16275851/