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Saturday, November 23, 2024
by Don Mooney 2-11-2023 It all began a long, long time ago. Way back in 1970, when the first schools were integrated in Alabama. Thats the new timeline parameters given for a high school Black History program in Tuscaloosa’s Hillcrest High School. Some Tuscaloosa-area high school students walked out of […]
Autopsy details in death of inmate at 201 Poplar By Joel Griffin Moore and Joyce Peterson Published: Feb. 9, 2023 at 1:06 PM CST MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – An autopsy report reveals new details in the case of an inmate’s death in Shelby County Jail. And now, the family of 33-year-old Gershun Freeman is […]
by Don Mooney Memphis, TENN—Burt Bacharach, By all musical standards of the 60s was magic! The pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. […]
by Don Mooney Memphis, TENN— More than 21,000 are feared dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday, according to officials. The quake centered in the town of Pazarcik in Turkey’s southeastern Kahramanmaras province and was followed by several powerful aftershocks. Thousands of buildings […]
by Don Mooney 2-8-2023 Memphis, TENN—A fadeaway jumper, not a skyhook ode to Abdul-Jabbar or one of his signature power dunks, with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter of a 133-130 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder that sent James to the top of the scoring mountain that Abdul-Jabbar stood above for […]
Earthquake death toll At least 5,434 deaths have been reported in Turkey, while 1,832 people have died in Syria. The death toll is likely to keep rising. Yunus Sezer, who heads the AFAD agency, said an additional 15,384 people were injured in Turkey, while 6,217 buildings have collapsed. The two […]
I first posted about this on Sunday, but wanted to share an update, both as VASAviation has published a great simulation of what happened, and a veteran air traffic controller has chimed in with his take on the incident in the comments section. Terrifying runway incident at Austin Airport The […]
Posted byBy Niko Mann | Published on February 3, 2023 Kyle Rittenhouse is requesting donations after a federal judge ruled on Feb. 1 that the father of one of the men he fatally shot can move forward with his wrongful death lawsuit. Rittenhouse killed two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the Jacob Blake protests […]
by Don Mooney 2-6-2023 MEMPHIS, TENN—In the 70s hit spin-off The Jeffersons, the destination was get that bag and take it to get that deluxe apartment in the sky. Fast forward 2023, figure in inflation, cost of living on the upper eastside these days, that deluxe apartment got folks like […]
by Don Mooney 2-1-2023 Also in support and attendance to the Nichols family were mothers, from across the country, whose sons publically died at the hands of police. The mother of Eric Garner, George Floyds family, Botham Jean’s sister and the mother of Breona Taylor. Major networks broadcast live coverage […]