NEWS

Community welcomes home state champs

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

It was a two-point conversion in overtime that won the state championship game for the Whitehaven Tigers. Saturday the high school football team won their first state championship; the next day they received a welcome fit for champions.

It looked like game night at Whitehaven High School, as a welcome party for the

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Le Bonheur lights message for HIV prevention

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Mildred Richard, a crew leader with Le Bonheur's Community HIV Network, is all smiles all the time. With her "live life large" philosophy, you would never know she's HIV positive.

"Upon learning different things, researching, I found out that I wasn't dying from anything; I was living. I tell people I live out

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HS obesity rate drops in Miss. students

AP Photo, File/Kim Johnson Flodin

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -

Mississippi's obesity rate in high school students has dropped, knocking the state's teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide.

A 2011 survey finds the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students down to 16.5% from 18.1% in 2009.

That sounds

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Army still treating injured Horn Lake soldier

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Army medic Pvt. Taylor Odom of Horn Lake, Miss., who was severely injured in an accident during a military training session, was supposed to come home Friday. Instead the Army is keeping him a little while longer.

"The doctors told her (Odom's biological mother) he has a 12-year-old mentality and if he was to hit

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Planned Parenthood free HIV testing Dec 1

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -

Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region is providing free HIV testing and prevention counseling during the Christ Community Baptist Church's Faith and AIDS conference.

According to a news release, the conference takes place on Saturday beginning at 8:30 a.m. with a community breakfast. Workshops begin at 10:15 a.m.

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