Mid-South News

By Candice Ludlow

Millington, TN – Each year, all casualty branches of the military service search the globe to identify and give full military honors to approximately 100 MIA/POW's. Hundreds of people work these cases, often with little or nothing to go on.

Ken Terry works closely with the families of long missing Navy soldiers to bring their loved ones home, and finally bring closure.

By Candice Ludlow

Millington, TN – Each year, all casualty branches of the military service search the globe to identify and give full military honors to approximately 100 MIA/POW's. Hundreds of people work these cases, often with little or nothing to go on.

Ken Terry works closely with the families of long missing Navy soldiers to bring their loved ones home, and finally bring closure.

By Candice Ludlow

By Sarah Ledbetter

Union City, TN – Up highway 51, just ten miles from the Kentucky border, lies the town of Union City, tucked into Tennessee's northwest corner. And in that city, in a neighborhood once known as Baptistville, sits Mount Zion Christian Methodist Episcopal church. Though listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, and now also in this year's Ten Endangered Places in Tennessee, Mount Zion was abandoned two years ago and now faces destruction by neglect.

By Candice Ludlow

Memphis, TN – African Americans diagnosed with AIDS between 1997 and 2004 are not living as long as their counterparts, Latinos, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, or Whites, according to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. But chances for having a full life after diagnosis of HIV/AIDS is much better today than it was when the disease was discovered in the 1980's.