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NEWS ABOUT: Memphis

Memphis stories: 14 news summaries
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Rock Legend Chuck Berry, Top-Notch Short Story Writer

"Memphis, Tennessee" shows Berry's sociological side: Klinkenborg

Nov 2, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The original Chuck Berry version of “Memphis, Tennessee” isn't as well known as some others—by Johnny Rivers, say, or Buck Owens. But the real star is the tune, first released in 1959, which Verlyn Klinkenborg suspects is the “best short story in the form of a song... More »

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entertainment • music • Tennessee • rock and roll • Memphis • cover song • Chuck Berry • songwriter • short story • Johnny Rivers • Buck Owens

(Newser) - Pro-abstinence Tennessee State Sen. Paul Stanley has stepped down in the wake of revelations that he had an affair with his 22-year-old intern, reports AP. The 47-year-old married father of two admitted the affair to investigators after his intern's boyfriend allegedly attempted to blackmail Stanley for $10,000. "Due... More »

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blackmail • extortion • Tennessee • affair • abstinence • Paul Stanley • Memphis • sexual abstinence • state senator

 Timberlake 
 Opens 'Green' 
 Golf Course 

First to receive Audobon certification

Jul 27, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Justin Timberlake took his well-known passion for golf and channeled it into creating an eco-friendly course, the first in the nation to be dubbed an Audubon Classic Sanctuary, the Commercial Appeal reports. Mirimichi, located near Memphis, was a $16 million labor of love for the singer, who says that in... More »

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entertainment • golf • celebrity • Justin Timberlake • golf course • Memphis • eco-friendly

ANALYSIS

Flights at Calif., Fla. Airports Most Likely to Hit Birds

Sacramento has
highest US strike rate

Apr 27, 09 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Airplanes using airports in Sacramento, Calif., Kansas City, Mo., and Denver are the most likely to hit birds while landing or taking off. NPR used the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently released bird-strike data to calculate airports’ “strike rate”—the percentage of planes that collided with birds relative... More »

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FAA • Kansas City • Montana • JFK Airport • Sacramento • Memphis • bird strike

New Photos Bare Aftermath of King's Death

Life finally releases
grim images taken
after assassination

Apr 3, 09 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly published photographs by a Life magazine lensman capture the aftermath of the shocking assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including a motel worker sweeping away the blood of the civil rights crusader. Few journalists traveled to Memphis after the assassination, and Life declined to run the photos after his... More »

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photograph • civil rights • photographers • Martin Luther King Jr. • Memphis • Life • civil rights movement • Life Magazine

 Memphis Bids Hayes 
 Soulful So-Long

Family, friends, stars and fans gather to honor Isaac Hayes' life

Aug 19, 08 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands gathered at a Memphis-area mega-church to say a final farewell to Isaac Hayes, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. Family members mixed with musicians from across the genres, as well as Hollywood stars, politicians, Scientologists, African royalty, and thousands of ordinary people paying tribute to the soul legend who died... More »

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singer • memorial • Memphis • soul • memorial service • Isaac Hayes

 Elvis, Priscilla Barbies Wed

Graceland signs off on Mattel collectibles

Aug 13, 08 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elvis and Priscilla Presley wedding day Barbies are the latest in King kitsch, the AP reports. The $65 boxed set, released yesterday, draws on the couple’s 1967 wedding photo—groom in paisley, bride in tiara. One fan paid $6,800 for a pair of dolls signed by Priscilla, while... More »

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Mattel • Barbie • Elvis Presley • Graceland • Memphis • fashion dolls • Priscilla Presley

analysis

 Why Is Memphis the New
 South Bronx? 

Demolition of low-income housing has only redistributed the problem

Jun 29, 08 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a flattened national crime rate in large cities, Memphis was recently dubbed the nation's leader in violent crime, prompting Atlantic Monthly to ask: “Why has Elvis’s hometown turned into America’s new South Bronx?" Local experts offer an unsettling answer: demolition of low-income housing projects isn’t... More »

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poverty • gang violence • urban poverty • Memphis • public housing

 Lost Pyramid Found in Egypt 

4,500-year-oldtomb rediscovered

Jun 6, 08 3:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The remnants of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian pyramid lost for generations has been rediscovered by archaeologists, National Geographic reports. It's believed to be the tomb of  King Menkauhor—who ruled in 2,400 BC—and was found in the midst of a sprawling burial complex at Saqqara, where scientists also... More »

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Pyramids • ancient Egypt • Memphis • King Menkauhor • Saqqara • Headless Pyramid • Supreme Council of Antiquities • National Geographic Society • Old Kingdom • Middle Kingdom • sarcophagus

Cops Charge Brother in
Mass Killing

Ex-con admits to
killing 6 after dispute, Memphis police say

Mar 8, 08 5:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Memphis police collared a man yesterday and charged him in a mass killing that shocked the city last weekend. Jessie Dotson, 33, allegedly shot his brother Cecil, 30, in an argument and then murdered five possible witnesses. “When Jessie left, he believed everyone in the home was dead,”... More »

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crime • police • murder • arrest • Memphis • mass shootings • Memphis killings

Memphis Massacre Kids Under Guard

Three wounded survivors under tight protection; victims had troubled pasts

Mar 6, 08 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Memphis police are keeping a tight watch on three seriously wounded children who could be key to solving the murder of six people—including two other kids—at a brick house in a tough neighborhood over the weekend. Police aren’t allowing any visitors, including relatives. They’ve also declined... More »

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crime • murder • children • Memphis • Memphis killings • Cecil Dotson • police records

2 Toddlers,
4 Adults
Shot Dead in Memphis Home

Worst mass killing
in city in 35 years

Mar 4, 08 7:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Memphis police found two toddler girls and four adults shot dead in a home in the city's Binghamton neighborhood yesterday. Three other young children have been taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds and are said to be critically injured, reports the Commercial Appeal. Police say the shootings... More »

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children • homicide • Tennessee • Memphis • shooting • gunshots • Memphis killings

Delta-Northwest Merger Close to Takeoff

Boards meet tomorrow to vote on plans that would create world's largest airline

Feb 19, 08 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Directors at Delta and Northwest meeting tomorrow could announce a marriage of the two airlines by day’s end if a crucial deal with the airlines’ 11,000 unionized pilots can be reached, reports the Wall Street Journal. The resulting company would be the largest airline in the world,... More »

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Atlanta • airline industry • Delta Air Lines • mergers and acquisitions • Northwest Airlines • US Airways • American Airlines • Cincinnati • pilot • Continental Airlines • Memphis • Air France KLM Group • UAL Corp.

America's 10 Chubbiest Cities

Sun Belt hogs the lion's share of pudgiest locales

Nov 25, 07 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The weather may be great and the lifestyle good, but Southern culinary hospitality might be landing the Sun Belt disproportionately on Forbes' list of America's most obese cities. The most rotund:
  1. Memphis
  2. Birmingham
  3. San Antonio
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obesity • New Orleans • Milwaukee • obesity epidemic • Kansas City • Detroit • fat • list • Austin • Riverside • San Diego • San Antonio • Baltimore • Jacksonville • Birmingham • Richmond • obese • Oklahoma City • Memphis • Nashville

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