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After all the hype, Facebook’s first day as a public company ended where it began.

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Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner’s Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

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Smack dab in the middle of the ocean of barbecue currently covering Tom Lee Park is a small island (to torture this metaphor) devoted to Buffalo chicken wings.

The wings come with the Frank’s To the People bus, sponsored by Frank’s RedHot sauce.…

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This weekend, about 2,000 people will head to Tunica, but gambling won’t be on their minds nearly as much as swimming, biking and running.

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Somewhere at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean may lie the airplane of Amelia Earhart, its aluminum body perfectly preserved in frigid temperatures.

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One year ago Tuesday at 5:41 in the afternoon, a tornado rampaged across the southern side of the city.

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A debate of sorts Tuesday night between David Pickler and Kim Wirth, candidates for the Unified School Board for District 5, made one thing clear: Whoever wins that seat, representing the Germantown-Collierville area, will owe their primary allegiance to the prospective municipal districts there, not to the Unified District itself.”

The joint appearance of the two candidates was at La Hacienda Restaurant on West Poplar under the auspices of the Collierville Republican Club.

Asked point blank if they favored establishment of municipal school districts in Germantown and Collierville, both Pickler, the longtime former chairman of the old Shelby County Schools board, and Wirth, a communications executive with International Paper, answered “Yes,” categorically.…

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Southwind’s boys 800-meter relay team will have ‘em buzzing even before they set foot on the Middle Tennessee State track for next week’s Spring Fling.

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Apple is giving the latest version of its popular computer tablet new features, but no new name.

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