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Millington Central High football player dies after injury during practice

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012, 5:02am

MEMPHIS, TN - (WMC-TV) – A Millington Central High School football player has died after he was hit during practice.

Family, friends, officials, and coaches gathered at LeBonheur Children's Hospital. From the superintendent down to fellow players, classmates and parents there are a lot of heavy hearts at LeBonheur where people have shown up in the hours after this 15 year-old player's sudden death on the football field.

Friends say the smile on 15-year-old Dana Payne's face in this photo perfectly illustrates who he was.

"He was a very outgoing person, kept everybody laughing, and just made everybody smile, and was very athletic," Payne's friend Aaliyah Threlkeld said.

Payne was rushed by ambulance to LeBonheur Children's Hospital early Tuesday evening after suffering an injury during football practice at Millington Central High School, where police remained hours after the incident.

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"Men NOT At Work" is a civics lesson

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Monday, August 20th, 2012, 9:36am

Someone skipped their ninth grade civics class.

I know. I caught you. I can tell by some of your Action News 5 Facebook posts and comments on the web version of my Men NOT At Work investigation.

For those of you who missed it, here's the link: http://www.wmctv.com/story/19287600/the-investigators-men-not-at-work-fired. Long story short, Monday and Wednesday, we detailed how we ran hidden camera surveillance on two city code inspectors who wasted days and hours doing nothing in a secluded Frayser back-street. They wasted our time and tax dollars while properties as close as a mile away that have been code violations for months were ignored.

Ultimately, and righteously, Inspectors Burnie Mitchell and John Finley lost their jobs.

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Millington children and parents finally reunited after lockdown

Submitted by Jason Miles, Reporter

Friday, August 10th, 2012, 9:47pm

MILLINGTON, TN - (WMC-TV) – Hundreds of Millington Elementary students were finally evacuated hours after their school was placed on lockdown Friday as SWAT teams searched for an armed robbery suspect in a nearby corn field.

"I was very scared," said one student.

First grader Gavin Brown said he was never scared.

"Not one bit," he said.

His mother and many other parents reunited with their children at the Naval base gym a couple of miles away from the school..

"Just happy to pick him up, be done and over with it, and take him home," said parent Kasey Brown.

"I've been nervous and scared all day," said another parent.

Other parents told Action News 5 conflicting information kept them guessing about where their children would actually end up.

"I was told to go here, then back over here, then sent back over here," said one frustrated parent.

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Millington robbery suspect apprehended

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Friday, August 10th, 2012, 8:23pm

MILLINGTON, TN - (WMC-TV) – At approximately 7:30 PM, Shelby County Sheriff's deputies apprehended a suspect wanted in an armed robbery on Armour Drive Friday morning.

Daniel Johnson, 24, was caught in the area by officers on information received by sources.

Initially, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office received information about two suspects, one of them Johnson, who were involved in a robbery Thursday at the Castle Creek Recreation Center which is also located in the Millington area in which two weapons were stolen.

The Sheriff's Office believes there is a second accomplice involved in the crimes which led to the search of the corn field across from the elementary school. He is still at large and this investigation is ongoing.

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Search for Millington robbery suspect continues

Submitted by WMCTV Web Staff

Friday, August 10th, 2012, 6:11pm

MILLINGTON, TN- (WMC-TV) – The search continues for the man accused of holding up another man at gunpoint Friday morning.

The suspect was seen Friday afternoon at the Regency Inn & Suites on Navy Road, near Millington Elementary School. This prompted a lockdown of the school. Nobody was allowed inside the building, or out.

Shelby County sheriff's deputies are searching a Millington cornfield for their suspect. They believe the suspect may be lying down to evade capture.

Kids were evacuated from the school shortly after 5 p.m. after conflicting reports surfaced about when the kids would be able to leave and where they would go.

Children who usually take the bus home were taken home later than usual. Students who usually walk home were bussed to the Millington Naval Base, where their parents could pick them up.

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Ask yourself before you Ask Andy

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Monday, August 6th, 2012, 3:57pm

(WMC-TV) - Fifteen years have been both a blessing and a curse serving the consumers of the Mid-South.

The pleasure and reward are all mine when I'm able to right a wrong, get a consumer's money back or hold a scam artist/wayward public official (usually one and the same) accountable.

Accountability and goodwill. Still the twin powers of television.

When I feel powerless is when I have to tell someone his or hers is certainly a legitimate consumer problem, but it is not a news story.

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Top 10 consumer complaints

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012, 2:02pm

(WMC-TV) - Cars, credit and construction top the list of the industries most consumers can't stand, according to a survey by the Consumer Federation of America and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators.

The organizations surveyed 38 state consumer protection agencies about "...the most common, fastest-growing and worst complaints they received in 2011."

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