Museum to open balcony where King was shot
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is closing for a year for renovations, but its biggest attraction is about to be accessible to the public for the first time.
The museum was built around and includes the old Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was staying when he was assassinated in 1968. Until now,
...1 killed after truck collides with Ark. church van
PINDALL, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say one person is dead after a three-vehicle collision involving a van carrying 20 people from a Hot Springs church.
Arkansas State Police say the crash happened Thursday afternoon on U.S. 65 one mile south of Pindall in Searcy County. Authorities tell the Harrison Daily Times (http://is.gd/gcxGnX ) that the fatal
...Ripley hosts annual Faulkner event
RIPLEY, Miss. (AP) - Ripley's annual Falkner Heritage Festival begins Friday with a focus on William Faulkner the soldier.
Ripley Main Street Director Libbi Bryant tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/YcRCwa ) that event kicks off with a showing of Faulkner's "Two Soldiers" at the Dixie Theatre.
On Saturday, there will be a
...Stamps man kills himself as agents served warrant
STAMPS, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say a south Arkansas man fatally shot himself as federal agents tried to serve a warrant at his home.
Special agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations agency went to a home in Stamps on Wednesday to serve the warrant.
Agency spokesman Bryan Cox says the agents heard a
...Knox County jailer arrested, fired after vandalism
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Knox County jailer is accused of ripping the mirror off a city police car and then fighting with the officer who tried to detain him.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports () Joshua McGill was fired Thursday after his arrest on charges of public intoxication, assault, vandalism, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
The
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