Services for Mr. Charles B. Parks, Jr. age 23 of Jackson, Tennessee will be held on Saturday, April 17, 2021, 1:00 P.M., at the Stephenson-Shaw Chapel. The interment will be in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Saturday, from 12 Noon until time of service. For more information contact Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home at (731) 427-7411 or…
Wednesday Night Forecast for April 14th: Behind Wednesday mornings front, temperatures will dip into the low to mid 40s tonight, so make sure you click those heaters back on. We should see plenty of sunshine on Thursday, but clouds build back on Friday and some light showers will return overnight into Saturday morning. Catch your full weekend forecast, as well…
MARTIN, Tenn. — The largest fundraiser of the year for the University of Tennessee at Martin is bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Thank you, thank you. Welcome to UT Martin Jeopardy,” announced UT Martin Chancellor Keith Carver. UT Martin is hoping to win the “daily double” for this year’s Captain’s Challenge. “We match dollar for dollar, up to…
JACKSON, Tenn. — The Miss Tennessee Volunteer Pageant will return to Jackson this summer, following a cancellation due to COVID-19 last year. The pageant is set to begin at the Carl Perkins Civic Center on June 16, with a new Miss Tennessee Volunteer to be crowned on Saturday, June 19, according to pageant organizers. The announcement comes after…
DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Two Dyersburg State Community College alumni were honored with the Outstanding Alumni Award. Dyersburg State says Kenyata Jones, of Humboldt, and Shaun Lehmann, of Dyersburg, were given the award on April 1 during its annual spring conference. Jones, who graduated from DSCC in 2003, achieved an Associate of Science degree in Psychology, and went on to have…
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Lexington High School will be moving to a virtual format through April 16 due to COVID-19 cases and quarantines, according to the Henderson County School District. The district confirmed Wednesday that Lexington High School currently has 16 positive COVID-19 cases and 161 students quarantined. Student participating in end of course testing was low Tuesday, according to…
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota prosecutor says he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said Wednesday that Kim Potter will be charged with second-degree manslaughter. Orput’s announcement comes a day after Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police…
On April 14, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.) Also on this date: In 1759, German-born English composer George Frideric Handel died in London at age 74. In…
Leland Eugene “Lee” Temple, age 71, resident of Somerville, Tennessee and husband of Allison Temple, passed away Wednesday morning, April 7, 2021 at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital. Lee was born October 15, 1949 in Columbus, Georgia, the son of the late Claude W. Temple and Audrey L. Olsson Temple. He moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee and graduated from…
JACKSON, Tenn. — The Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department has confirmed eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed positive cases to 11,188 in Madison County. Those new patients range in age from 6-months-old to 58-years-old. There are currently six Madison County residents hospitalized, with two of those patients on ventilators. The health department also released statistics…
