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a Text DNJNEWS to 44636 (4INF0) Get Blue Raiders news and Wr scores on your eel phone Text BLUERAIDERS to 44636 (4INF0) a 2 Artist opens studio after triumph over health jq dnieom Go online today for: Photo gallery from Rutherford Weekend party 1 Ismurmal 3 GET BREAKING NEWS UW ON YOUR CEU PHONE ns JULY 17, 2009 1 FRIDAY MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE 1 504 SERVING RUTHERFORD COUNTY SINCE 1849 15. finrJU. fPOnnfkv geb $2Rfl rift Christy-Houston funds to help build teen center, Smyrna site and new Smyrna clubhouse. "The announcement wasn't a surprise. We've been going well worth it." Officials plan to raise $3 million for the construction of the new Smyrna club at the corner of Todd Lane and Culbertson Street The center will be built on 3.8 acres donated by the town of Smyrna and Rutherford County Board of Education.

An additional $1 million will fund the facility once it opens. The remainder of the funds will be used to add the teen center to the Murfreesboro club on Jones Boulevard, which was founded in 1984. "The $2 million is very substantial, but it doesn't complete the campaign. It just allows it to be catapulted into the next phase," Jernigan said of the donation. Between both sites, the Boys See GIFT, page A2 i Ci.

JERNIGAN process with Christy-Houston BYMEALAND RAGLAN D-HUDGINS MRAGLANDDNJ.COM Officials with the Boys Girls Clubs of Rutherford County are excited that a $2 million grant awarded Thursday by the Christy-Houston Foundation has finally become a reality. The grant will go toward the clubs' $4.6 million capital and endowment campaign to build a teen center in Murfreesboro for almost two years," said Dan Jernigan, the club's chief prp-fessional officer. "But it was We see the cross every day' Family of Lakeisha White still hurt by tragedy a year ago jwuui.hu i 1 1 mm. i injnuu Police catch suspect in killing Man wanted for fatal shooting at Peachtree home y. BY MARK BELL MBELLDNJ.COM One year and one day ago, 11-year-old Lakeisha White was dressed up in a granny wig and high-heel shoes performing a sing-and-dance routine f.

jf a for her grandmother, Brenda Carneal, and her-next-door neighbors along Bradyville Pike in Murfreesboro. "It's one of my favorite memories of her," said BY MARK BELL MBELLDNJ.COM The man police believe is responsible for Tuesday night's fatal shooting of a man 'r if WHITE I at a Peachtree Street home in Murfreesboro is behind bars. Murfreesbo.ro Police received information that shooting suspect Derrick Campbell was hiding at MIW HI. I HUM I. CAMPBELL White's aunt, Kim Coleman, recalling the scene from last summer when her niece was in town from her Hop-kinsville, home visiting relatives.

Yet no one knew that, a day later, Lakeisha would be gone. Today marks one year since the evening Lakeisha was hit and killed on a stretch of Bradyville Pike by a police cruiser driven by now former Rutherford County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Ron Killings. What happened surrounding the crash investigation in the days and months that See WHITE, page A2 Above, relatives of Lakeisha White, clockwise from left, Brenda Carneal, Deerica Rogers, Monquesha Collier, 7, Kim Coleman, Rose Collier, Rayneshia Coleman, 10, and Ge'Keria Quarles, 3, pray Thursday at the site on Bradyville Pike where the 11-year-old White was struck and killed by a sheriff's cruiser one year ago. Left, a motorist passes a memorial at the site on Bradyville Pike where Lakeisha White was struck and killed.

DNJ PHOTOS BY JOHN A. GILLIS 'W" 'f 'j' Tv -P k4A Colony Square Apartments in Smyrna and arrested him shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, said police spokesman Kyle Evans. "While I can't get into the details of how we got that information, I can say that officers reacted quickly and were able to make the arrest without incident," Evans said. Campbell, 32, was booked and held at the Rutherford County jail Thursday on a $1 million bond.

A gun was recovered during the arrest. "That gun is being sent to the TBI for ballistics testing and comparison," Evans said. The tests will determine if the gun matches bullets recovered from the body of 31-year-old Christopher White. Detectives believ Campbell See SHOOTING, page A3 NFL star Steve McNair left no will for family Legal battle over inheritance likely among family members ville attorney, David Callahan, said Thursday she's determining Steve McNair's net worth. A Davidson Countv Drobate sponse to an emergency petition.

In the meantime, she received the right to control the estate. "I am sure that in due course there will be a discus1 sion with everyone who has an interest in the estate," Callahan said. "At this point, there See MCNAIR, page A3 BY CHRIS ECHEGARAY GANNETT TENNESSEE to lay claim to an inheritance, a move that could set up a lengthy legal battle since the The family of at least one of former Titans quarterback left Steve McNair's sons born be- no will, fore his marriage is gearing up Mechelle McNair's Nash court -judge MCNAIR granted the widow 60 days to complete that process in re- 111! JlliJi" -61 D1 A6 A7 JO Business Obituaries Opinion Sports OPINION Bradley Academy will open up the school year July 22 with a new look. A7 LOCAL A father and his son charged in a confrontation with poike will plead not guilty to charges. B1 TODAY'S WEATHER I Thunderstorms A PageBS SPORTS The new executive director of the TSSAA said the group is not A Gannett Newspaper 2009, The Daily News Journal Page editors; Gary Fraier and Chris Jones OPEN 247 YAUOOU A Uf-rst'v'S'X -5V.

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