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Billionaire releases plans for Titanic replica set to sail in 2016

By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - What could possibly go wrong?

An Australian billionaire is getting ready to build a new version of the Titanic that could set sail in late 2016.

Clive Palmer unveiled blueprints for the famously doomed ship's namesake Tuesday at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York.

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Senate to vote on lifting switchblade ban in Tenn.

The Senate Judiciary has voted to send a bill to lift Tennessee's ban on switchblades to a full floor vote.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville was advanced on a 7-1 vote on Tuesday. It would also end restrictions on carrying blades longer than 4 inches.

Bell said his research shows that the ban on

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Unified board votes against 'special master'

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Tuesday night's board meeting for the new unified Memphis and Shelby County school system was anything but boring.

From rejecting federal Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays Jr.,'s order to appoint a Special Master to bickering over a name change for the unified school district, it was evident the district still has a long

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County gets creative with traffic offenders

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (FOX13) -

It is a fact, the number of drivers showing up in justice court in DeSoto County who can't pay their traffic fines is increasing.

"The court is just like any other business during down economic times," said DeSoto County Justice Court Judge Ken Adams. "We have to get creative to collect our money."

Can't pay

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Jerry Lee Lewis to open Beale Street club

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

Legendary rocker Jerry Lee Lewis has plans to bring a little flavor to Beale Street. "The Killer" is set to open up his own club and restaurant this spring.

"Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe and Honky Tonk" will move into the structure on the east end of Beale Street that once was Pat O'Brien's.

"Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe and Honky

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