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• Memphis woman suspended from VA hospital using new ...

  

  CLOSE About the Memphis VA Medical Center, which makes services available to about 190,000 veterans in three states, including western Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. WochitSecretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)An employee at the Memphis VA charged over the weekend with a felony was suspended by the hospital, the VA announced Thursday.The suspension and recommendation for termination comes as VA Secretary David Shulkin has made now two perso..

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• The Stars – Ferguson, Miller, Norvell – Lead Memphis into the ...

  

  VOL. 132 | NO. 189 | Friday, September 22, 2017 The Stars – Ferguson, Miller, Norvell – Lead Memphis into the Spotlight By Don Wade Updated 2:44PM The team has not yet cracked this season’s Top 25, but at the University of Memphis everyone gets how this works. You beat No. 25 UCLA 48-45 on national television and the Bruins fall out of the rankings. The Tigers? They are kept waiting outside, for now, even as ESPN interviews transfer-quarterback Riley Ferguso..

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• Memphis Food & Wine Festival Returns to Celebrate Local Talent

  VOL. 132 | NO. 189 | Friday, September 22, 2017 Memphis Food & Wine Festival Returns to Celebrate Local Talent By Andy Meek Updated 2:41PM Back in 2014, when food blogger and Memphis public relations professional Cara Greenstein was attending the Austin Food & Wine Festival, she remembers thinking how great it would be if Memphis could host its own version of such an event. Which is why the creator of the food and lifestyle blog Caramelized says she’s excite..

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• Leader tapped to fix Memphis VA brings a checkered past with him

  

  CLOSE David Dunning is a Memphis native and two-time combat veteran who is the newest permanent director at the Memphis VA Medical Center. Jake Lowary/USA TODAY NETWORK - TennesseeMemphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center Director David Dunning (left) talks with the VA's Chief Engineer as work continues on a new front entrance to the hospital. Dunning references his many ties to the Memphis area when asked why he accepted his present post at the troubled hospital that serves hundreds of th..

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• Daily Digest

  

  VOL. 132 | NO. 189 | Friday, September 22, 2017 GPAC Planning New Open-Air VenueThe Germantown Performing Arts Center has announced plans to develop a new 1.5-acre open-air performance center that will be located due north of its current location at 1801 Exeter Road. Dubbed The Grove at GPAC, the center hopes the new venue will attract new audiences by providing an alternative option for performances. Local architectural firm archimania was tapped to handle the project’s design ..

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• Lemurs are back at the Memphis Zoo

  

  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two types of lemurs have returned to exhibit at the Memphis Zoo after an absence of 15 years. The zoo has new red-ruffed lemurs and black-and-white ruffed lemurs. The red-ruffed lemurs are a set of five-year-old triplets. Carmé is the female and her brothers are Titan and Puck. The black and white lemurs are teenagers — one female and one male —  named “Pepé” and “Penelope.” The group is on exhibit in Primate Canyon, across from the Orangutan yard. As the lemurs get accustomed ..

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• Fighting the Stigma of Depression

  

  I want to take this opportunity to talk about something that's not often discussed. It's kind of taboo in some circles, and often avoided in most. However, it's real and it needs to be talked about. It's something that impacts nearly 40,000 people of all skin colors, ages, genders, classes, and income levels each year in this country. The "it" I'm talking about is suicide. September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. It's designed to help erase the stigma, shame, ..

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• Trolleys to return to Memphis streets

  

  by: Greg Coy Updated: Sep 21, 2017 - 6:34 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. - For the first time in more than three years, The Memphis Area Transit Authority drove a trolley down Main Street.   MATA told FOX13 the trolleys will return to downtown Memphis, the Main Street Line, in December. There will be six trolleys. Four will run on the streets of Memphis. Two of them will be used as backups. Do not get ready pay a fare and jump on board.   MATA said it will take another year and a half to re-open al..

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• Residents offer ideas for future of Memphis fairgrounds

  MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - The debate over the future of Memphis fairgrounds is nearing an end.Hundreds of community ideas were narrowed down to six main themes, one of which will bring a renaissance to the area.After receiving all those ideas, the city simply wants to know: we heard what you want, now are we going in the right direction?Life could soon be brought back to the 155-acre Fairgrounds. It’s a decision that's been years in the making since the closing of the coliseum in 2007.Of ..

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• Domestic violence cases continue to rise in Memphis

  by: Zach Crenshaw Updated: Sep 21, 2017 - 10:46 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Domestic violence homicides have doubled in Memphis over the past three years. Tennessee now ranks 4th in the country for the number of women who are murdered by men, up five spots from a year prior. DOWNLOAD THE FOX13 NEWS APP Trending Now: In the last week, Memphis police said James Nelson killed his ex-wife on Gaithers Street. A few days later, 19-year-old Marcarlrious Craft was arrested for firing a gun in the dir..

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