Mike Brown

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Former world heavyweight boxing champion "Smokin' Joe" Frazier laughs inside his North Philadelphia gym. Frazier, who is best known for his trilogy of fights with Muhammad Ali ending with the "Thrilla in Manilla" in 1975, will step into the ring with Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton for a fund raiser on November 30 at the Peabody Hotel.(Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
   
Catherine Harville, 5, holds the hand of her father, John Harville, while he stands at ease with the rest of the 216th military police company of the National Guard after she jumped into a homecoming parade for the soldiers in West Memphis, Arkansas Saturday morning. Harville, a Collierville resident, was returning home from a 22 month tour at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.(Mike Brown)
   
(l-r) Juan Rojas and JosÈ Larious, with Mahaffey Tent and Party Rental, secure a tent while doing set-up work at Tom Lee Park for the Memphis in May barbeque festival.(Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
     
  
Memphis Police Officer Robert Martin walks through the scene of an head on collision involving a day care bus at the intersection of Park and Brower. According to officers on the scene the two adults and three children on the bus were transported in non-critical condition to area hospitals. The driver of white Ford Focus was transported in critical condition and later died of her injuries.(Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
   
Overton High School senior Marcus Carter, 18 (bottom left), works in the control room during the production of a news program at the Memphis City Schools Teaching and Learning Academy's College Career Fair.(Mike Brown)
   
Elvin Woods, 69, walks away from a module builder while harvesting one of many cotton fields farmed by the Sneed family. Woods, who lives in Memphis, has worked the fields for the Sneed family on and off for about 35 years.(Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
     
  
IRIS Chamber Orchestra cello player David Cho yawns during a rehearsal session at GPAC.(Mike Brown)
   
Briley Whitehead, 2, of Baileyton, AL, plays peekaboo from behind her flag in Tom Lee Park while waiting for the big fireworks display to light up the sky on the Fourth of July. (Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
   
A group of Millington Central High School students sit in silence in front of a memorial erected for senior Jacob "Jake" C. Smith who died Monday morning from injuries received in a single car accident Sunday night. Smith's 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse ran off the road on Shelby Road near Epperson Mill Road in Millington crashing through a utility pole and fence before landing on it's roof. Smith is the second senior from the school to die in an auto accident in the past two and a half months. (Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)
     
  
Stephen Wilbanks, 7, from West Memphis, shows off his attitude and green mohawk while enjoying the music at the Memphis In May Music Festival.(Mike Brown/Memphis Commercial Appeal)