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    Competition is fierce at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, where pitmasters are sweating and smoking to see who will be crowned best in pork. Considered one of the premiere cooking contests in the U.S., teams from around the country and internationally spend days working on huge whole hogs, massive slabs of shoulder and cuts of ribs in the heat and sometimes rain of Memphis, Tennessee. Brad Orrison and Brooke Lewis, a brother and sister-led team from Mississippi, have won the grand championship twice and say the competition is friendly, but fierce at the same time. Orrison says that at “the Super Bowl of Swine,” this is the trophy that everybody wants.

    After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart. The U.S. Army notified 96-year-old Earl Meyer last month that it had granted him the medal, which honors service members wounded in combat.

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    A Wise County man has been charged with malicious wounding and other charges after shooting an individual on Dan Hall Mountain Hall Road.

    A Bristol Tennessee man was arrested Thursday and charged with vehicular homicide and several other charges in connection to a fatal vehicle crash on Highway 394 on Feb. 16, 2024.

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