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Panel advances proposal on guns in churches

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas legislative panel has advanced a proposal to allow concealed handguns in churches after rejecting an effort to require places of worship to carry more insurance if they permit firearms.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday endorsed the proposal from Republican Sen. Bryan

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Ole Miss professor dies in I-40 crash

MENIFEE, Ark. (AP) -

Officials say a University of Mississippi law professor was killed in a car crash on Interstate 40 in central Arkansas.

Arkansas State Police say the crash happened Tuesday morning on I-40 between Conway and Little Rock. A preliminary report says that 58-year-old Richard Barnes of Oxford, Miss., crossed the median into

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Fullilove leaves council meeting in tears

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

City Councilman Janis Fullilove left a committee meeting Monday afternoon in tears.

She became upset during the discussion of what to do with the Nathan Bedford Forrest marker in Forrest Park.

MORE: Removing Forrest marker opens up Pandora's box

What to do with the park and the marker turned into a debate on the

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County residency requirement for MCS employees

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

A new twist in the schools consolidation drama took place Tuesday after a Shelby County attorney said residency requirements would mean Memphis City Schools employees who live outside the county would have to move to the county post merger.

In an opinion to the county commission, attorney Kelly Rayne said MCS

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Wharton, council propose sales tax increase

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) -

You just think selling the idea of raising taxes last fall was hard. Try convincing the Memphis City Council to consider it again.

The proposal could lower the property tax from $27 million that it could produce from the sales tax. The plan is similar to the proposal voted down in 2012 in Shelby County.

"Maybe I

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