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Record Sell Out for St. Jude Half-Marathon
MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - Organizers say the 2012 St. Jude Half Marathon sold out in record time, but there are still options for runners wanting to participate in the December 3rd event. Limited spots are still available for participants who also sign up as a St. Jude Hero and commit to raise at least $500 to benefit St. Jude Children’s
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Nephew Charged in Deadly Restaurant Stabbing
MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - Memphis police arrested the nephew of a man stabbed to death in a north Memphis restaurant Tuesday night. Officers were called to Oleo's Home Style Cooking at Willis Street and Chelsea Avenue around 5:45 p.m. on May 15. When they arrived they found 67-year-old Leo Miller with a stab wound to his chest. The victim was
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Friends & Family Remember MS Highway Murder Victims
DESOTO COUNTY, MS (abc24.com) - Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance says his team is re-interviewing a woman who claimed she was pulled over by a man pretending to be a police officer, as the search for the suspected Mississippi highway killer enters its second week. Tate says the woman called police after she was pulled over on April 2nd by
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West Nile Virus Swarms Shelby County
MEMPHIS, TN - They County's health department has already found mosquitoes with the virus in Bartlett, Southwest Memphis and Nutbush. This is the first time mosquitoes testing positive for the virus have been found this early in Shelby County. They expect new areas to be added weekly. The health department warns residents to be cautious. Vector Control Manager, Dr. Daniel
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Dangerous Complex Reduces Crime with Community Action
It was once on the brink of foreclosure, where crime statistics nearly out numbered residents, but in the last few years a once grim apartment complex in Hickory Hill has become one of the biggest success stories in Shelby County.
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Natural Hair Movement
National Hair Meet Up Day is Going on at Playhouse on the Square on May 19th.
Mid-South
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Police Arrest 4 Members of Occupy Little Rock
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP, abc24.com) - Police arrested four members of Occupy Little Rock as the city evicted the group from its protest site in downtown Little Rock. Officers made the arrests shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday - nearly seven hours after the group's permit expired. Police spokesman Terry Hastings says police waited until mid-afternoon to give the protesters time
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Arkansas Mom, Premature Son Die After Stabbing
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP, abc24.com) - A man has been arrested on a murder charge after his pregnant wife who had been stabbed in the chest staggered into a police station in western Arkansas and collapsed. Fort Smith police spokesman Sgt. Daniel Grubbs says authorities rushed 32-year-old Celestia Duffin to a hospital where doctors delivered her baby prematurely, but both
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Edwards defense rests, closing arguments tomorrow
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow at the North Carolina trial of two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, with jury deliberations expected to start the following day. The defense rested today without calling Edwards or his former mistress to the stand. The defense also chose not to question the former senator's oldest daughter, Cate, who has
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Ex-Houston cop not guilty in teen suspect beating
HOUSTON (AP) — Leaders of Houston's black community are expressing outrage after a jury found a former police officer not guilty of official oppression in the beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect. Andrew Blomberg is the first of four fired police officers to stand trial in the alleged beating of Chad Holley in March 2010. Security camera footage of Holley's
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NKorea nuclear reactor construction progressing
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-based institute says new satellite imagery shows that North Korea has resumed building work on a reactor after months of inactivity. That indicates the North is pressing on with efforts to expand its nuclear program, the institute says, despite international criticism. North Korea says the reactor is intended to generate electricity but its active pursuit of
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Slain journalist remembered in London
LONDON (AP) — Leading politicians and journalists have gathered in London to pay tribute to slain war correspondent Marie Colvin. Colvin, 56, was killed on Feb. 22 when army shelling struck the building that served as a makeshift media center in the Syrian city of Homs. She worked for the Sunday Times of London. Her editor John Witherow described the