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  • Career Day at Roane State

    Local Roane County businesses talked with every eleventh grade student from all five Roane County schools at the fifth annual High Schools Career Day put on by the Roane County Chamber of Commerce.  
       In the Roane State Community College gymnasium students were able to learn about different career paths and what education or training could be required.

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  • Meth problem worsens

    Meth lab activity in Roane County continues to show no signs of slowing down.
    Rockwood police discovered an anhydrous ammonia meth lab inside an SUV at the intersection of East Wheeler Street and Skyline Drive on Wednesday. A section of East Wheeler Street was blocked off during the investigation.
    Police said anhydrous ammonia labs are rare for this area.
    The occupants of the vehicle were identified as Matthew A. Knight, 34, David W. Foland, 51, and Teri L. Stephenson, 53.

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  • Child rape charges for 45-year-old

    A Harriman man has been charged with child rape.
    David Milton Wales, 45, was charged after March 29.
    Harriman Police Sgt. Greg Sims was dispatched to Roane Medical Center on a report of a rape of a child that was said to have happened a couple of months prior.
    The child’s mother said her daughter had given her explicit details of what happened with a man named David Woods  and described a man between 35 to 45 years old with red hair and blue eyes who lived on Hillwood Drive.

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  • Wrestler wants to body slam cancer

    When Scott Humphrey was diagnosed with basal cell skin cancer, he decided he wouldn’t let age or illness keep him out of the fight.

    Instead, Humphrey created the character Doomsday and rejoined the world of wrestling entertainment after a long absence.

    “I said OK, is there anything I want to do? Anything unfinished? Pro wrestling got back in my head,” Humphrey said. “I said I’ve got to be out of my mind. I’m 40 years old. I have no business in a ring, but why not?”

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  • Selling TVA? Think again

    President Barack Obama’s plan to explore selling TVA was sharply criticized by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander.

    “There is no assurance that selling TVA to a profit-making entity would reduce electric bills in the Tennessee Valley — which should be the overriding objective — and it could lead to higher electricity rates,” Alexander said in a prepared statement.

    Obama sent his budget for the federal government’s 2014 fiscal year to Congress on Wednesday.

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  • Runner Boston-bound

    Tara Stockton has dreamed of running in the Boston Marathon ever since participating in her first long-distance race in 2001.
    Come Monday, she no longer has to dream.
    Stockton, who lives in Harriman, will be one of thousands of runners from around the world participating in the 2013 Boston Marathon.
    “This is my 15th run as far as a full marathon,” Stockton said. “I said if I ever got to do Boston, I was going to have fun, so this one is strictly going to be for the enjoyment.”

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  • Whimsical display has somber side

    The pinwheels in front of the courthouse in Kingston are bright and colorful, but the problems they represent are dark.
    “Each pinwheel represents a victim of child abuse in Roane County,” a banner in front of the collection of blue and silver pinwheels states.
    Representatives of Roane County and the Kids First Child Advocacy Center planted the pinwheels in the courthouse lawn last week.

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  • County rejects ankle bracelets

    A plan to appropriate $25,000 for an ankle-bracelet monitoring program failed to pass the Roane County Commission Monday night. Six commissioners voted for the resolution, and six voted against it.
    “Motion fails for lack of a majority,” Chairman James Brummett declared.
    Officials said an ankle bracelet program could have helped alleviate some of the overcrowding issues at the Roane County Jail.

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  • Mom accused of holding boy for son to hit

    The case of a Rockwood woman accused of holding a 10-year-old boy so her son could hit him was continued in Roane County General Sessions Court Monday.
    On March 20, Rockwood police responded to a call about an assault on a child at Courtney Square Apartments.
    The report said Rene T. Lee observed Latoya Brown push her 10-year-old son down as he was parking his bike.
    A witness told police Brown pushed “Dominic” down and then grabbed him by the shirt and held him so her son could hit him, police reported.

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  • Joint project at lakefront

    Kingston City Council is supporting a Bethel Presbyterian amphitheater project that would be funded by the church, but operated by the city parks and recreation department.
    At a work session last week, officials placed conceptual drawings for Three Rivers Amphitheater on its April 9 council agenda for approval.
    The South Kentucky Street church first approached council with the project last year.

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