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TOWNSEND — A rock slide this morning has closed an 8-mile section of Little River Road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Body of woman missing since January found in bed frame of Memphis motel Published 3/17/2010 at 1:59 p.m. 59 comments
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