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TN House votes to halt renaming Confederate parks

By ERIK SCHELZIG
Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The House on Monday voted to approve a bill to bar local governments from renaming parks or monuments honoring Tennessee's military figures - a move the sponsor says is aimed at preventing shifting views and changing "demographics" from erasing memorials to historical figures from the Civil

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MDOT installs cameras along Highway 78

BYHALIA, Miss. (FOX13) -

Installation of traffic cameras along Highway 78 in north Mississippi is raising several eyebrows, especially the further you drive into DeSoto and Marshall counties.

On the stretch of roadway several cameras have gone up, and when those cameras start going up motorists come up with all kinds of theories - Whether

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La Granja Bar forced to close, violates agreement

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

For the second time in two years popular Hispanic nightclub La Granja Bar and Grill was forced to close its doors after it violated terms of an agreement made with the Shelby County District Attorney.

The club, located at 4780 summer Ave. near Mendenhall, was declared a public nuisance and will remain closed until

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City faces lawsuit over deadly August 2012 crash

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

An attorney representing two of the victims in the deadly August 2012 crash involving a former Memphis police officer, has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis.

Alex Beard was terminated Feb. 19 after an investigation into the fatal crash that killed a 13-year-old girl and a 54-year-old-woman, and

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Judge angered over lack of progress in merger

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

It's a tedious walk from their respective downtown law firms they could probably do in their sleep by now. But, veteran attorneys, Tom Cates and Leo Bearman, are quite aware that when they are summoned by federal judge Samuel Hardy Mays for a status conference, in regards to the city county school merger lawsuit,

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