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Smith Nephew lays off 100, blames Obamacare

Sarah Bleau / FOX13 News

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Memphis-based medical company Smith & Nephew laid off just under 100 employees at its offices in Memphis and Massachusetts, blaming the layoffs on taxes resulting from Obamacare.

Inside sources told FOX13 News the layoffs at Smith & Nephew in Memphis went on through most of Thursday

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Child found after father takes him in Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Memphis police say an 8-week-old boy has been found after an Amber Alert was issued for the baby.

Early Thursday morning an Amber Alert was issued by police after the infant was taken from Methodist North Hospital on North Covington Pike just after midnight.

"I woke up to Channel 13, I saw the Amber Alert and I

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3 people shot, 2 schools on lockdown

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Two north Memphis schools were locked down after three people were shot nearby in what police say was a targeted attack just after the noon hour on Thursday.

Hollywood Success Academy School and Promise Academy were put on lockdown as a precautionary measure after the reported triple shooting in the 1300 block of

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Southaven developer pleads guilty of bank fraud

U.S. District Courthouse in Oxford, Miss. (Tom Dees / FOX13 News)

OXFORD, Miss. (FOX13) -

Southaven developer and former University of Memphis public address announcer Chuck Roberts entered a guilty plea to bank fraud in U.S. District Court in Oxford on Thursday.

Roberts was found guilty of charges involving falsification of documents on

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Memphis man's restitution reduced 50 cents

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -

A man convicted in a Memphis bank robbery has won a small-change victory from an appellate court.

In a ruling announced Thursday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals left intact the conviction and the 52-month sentence of Calvin Rene Calhoun Jr.
Calhoun was charged in the robbery of a Regions Bank

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