Information from Project Care Troops

Henley Distributing Co., LLC and Project Care Troops will host a supply drive for the troops on September 11, 2010 starting at 9:00a.m. and ending at 2:00 p.m.

Volunteers will be on hand to collect the items outside Henley Distributing which is located at 3090 Broad Ave in Memphis. Organizers will also have available a small area set up so visitors can create cards or letters for the troops.  Those cards and letters will be placed into the care packages headed overseas. 

Items requested include:

The International Space Station was visible to the naked eye as it passed over Southaven (and the entire Mid-South) Wednesday evening.

The station was traveling from the southwest to the northeast, and was visible from 8:28pm to 8:32pm.

If you squint, you may be able to see the station as a bright speck in the video posted above.

The space station will be visible again this evening for a short period of time.  Click here to use a (complicated) website built by NASA that allows you to track the station.

By Jamel Major - bio | email

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A Horn Lake man says he didn't try to rape a teenage girl just steps from a Memphis high school earlier this week.

Samuel Rayburn, 67, plead not guilty of soliciting a minor to commit aggravated statutory rape in a Memphis courtroom today.

According to an affidavit of complaint, on May 18, 2010, a 15-year-old girl ran to school and reported that Rayburn, who was driving this yellow truck, had pulled up beside her and offered to take her to school.

The affidavit also says Rayburn tried to get the girl to perform a sex act.

"I think he got to be sick," parent Marilyn Mitchell said Thursday. "Something is really wrong with him."