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Charter School Application Workshop

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Monday, August 23rd, 2010, 11:00pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Office of Charter Schools to Host

Charter School Application Workshop
Thursday, August 26, 2010

If you’ve ever considered opening a charter school, the

Memphis City Schools Office of Charter Schools has a one stop shop for

information set up just for you this month.

On Thursday, August 26, 2010, at 2 p.m. at the Teaching and Learning

Academy, 2485 Union Avenue, in room W112, a panel of experts will provide

information on the application process, budgeting, facilities and board

development.

This annual workshop gives anyone interested in starting a charter school a

chance to receive application information prior to the October 1 charter

school deadline.

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Skateboarder killed in Midtown accident

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Monday, August 23rd, 2010, 4:24pm

By Jamel Major - bio | email

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A skateboarder was killed in Midtown early Monday morning after colliding with a trash truck.

According to Memphis police, officers were called to the intersection of Courtland Place and South Cooper Street just after 2:00 a.m. Monday. There, witnesses said, two men on skateboards turned onto Courtland at the same time as a trash truck belonging to Allied Waste Management.

One of the skateboarders became pinned under the truck and was dragged several feet before the driver realized something was wrong.

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Send us your football scores, pictures, and video

Submitted by Jason Plank, WMCTV.com

Friday, August 20th, 2010, 10:41am

High school football season is getting into full swing across the Mid-South, and Action News 5 covers high school football each Friday night during our 10 p.m. newscast.

However, we can't be at every game, and that's where you come in. Call your team's score into our newsroom at 901-726-0416, or email scores@wmctv.com.

We'd also like pictures or video highlights from your game. You can email those to my5@wmctv.com, or log on to WMCTV.com's My 5 to upload them directly. Or follow us on Twitter, @wmctvsports and send us your scores with the hashtag #midsouthpreps.

If your video gets used as our "Play of the Week," you'll win an Action News 5 shirt.

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Two boys charged with throwing rocks off overpass

Submitted by Stuart Ervin on Wednesday, August 18th, 8:46 pm

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Two boys were charged with throwing boulders and rocks off an overpass in Midtown Memphis.

The children, ages 11 and 15, are accused of breaking several windshields Wednesday near the intersection of Union and Poplar Avenue.

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Memphis Black Arts Alliance presents "Smoldering Fires"

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, 9:25pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Memphis Black Arts Alliance’s Arts-A-Fire Youth Theater Troupe will present the second play in their 2010-2011 season on September 17-19. “Smoldering Fires,” is a drama by African American author and playwright Kermit Frazier. Through the story of two unlikely friends, the play applies the ideals and struggles of the civil rights movement to contemporary life. Show times are 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, September 17-18 and 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 19 at Evergreen Theatre. Tickets are $15, $12 for MBAA members and $10 for children under 14 and groups of 10 or more.

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Victims claim unknown vandals are throwing rocks from overpass

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010, 5:45pm

By Jamel Major - bio | email

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Several victims have come forward claiming they could have been killed when someone threw rocks at their cars from a Midtown overpass.

Tuesday, Chessie Peavy was still assessing the damage done to her car after a huge rock came crashing into it over the weekend. Peavy was thankful her child wasn't in the back seat when the rock crashed through.

"My daughter normally sits on this side of the car, and had that piece of concrete gone for that window...she could've been seriously injured," she said.

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Rhodes College: "Among the Best Undergraduate Institutions"

Submitted by Jerica Phillips, JCFN Social Marketing Coordinator

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010, 9:54pm

*Action News 5 received the following press release to our news desk*

Rhodes Featured in The Princeton Review’s “Best 373 Colleges” Guide

Rhodes College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 373 Colleges. The Rhodes campus also was rated one of the 20 most beautiful in the country.

Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review’s flagship college guide.

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