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Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills 325K every year

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

The numbers are alarming, and devastating in the Mid-South.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more than 325,000 every year across the country. It's a leading cause of death, affecting every age, race, and gender.

Count the minutes, because for every two, at least 1,000 will die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

"Most people don't

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Mom fakes daughter's death to collect money

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Lying is bad enough, but 24-year-old Jessica Banks of south Memphis is accused of doing much more than that.

Banks has been accused of fabricating a story about her 22-month-old daughter's death to collect money and sympathy. She told co-workers her daughter died from an asthma attack.

She was charged with creating

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Rhodes student preps for Millington alderman seat

MILLINGTON, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Twenty-year-old Rhodes College junior Franklin "Frankie" Dakin's successful political campaign has captured local and national headlines, including a spot in the USA Today newspaper.

He's preparing to take office in January 2013 As a member of the Millington Board of Alderman after upsetting an incumbent

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Grizz tip off 'read to achieve' challenge

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

On Tuesday, the Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Reading Team tipped off its annual six-week Read To Achieve challenge.

A special pep rally by the Grizz frizz and the Grizz girls kicked off the festivities at a downtown elementary school.

Afterward, Grizzlies players Wayne Ellington, Jerryd Bayless and Quincy Pondexter

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Teen charged as adult for beating young boy

TUNICA, Miss. (FOX13) -

A 14-year-old Clarksdale, Miss., boy has been charged as an adult in Tunica after he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a boy 10 years younger than him.

Edward Malane is also accused of assaulting a 77-year-old woman with a brick and stole her car and some money, the Tunica County Sheriff's Department said.

Edward, who

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