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A federal prison cell awaits a Rockwood man, who pleaded guilty last year to illegally possessing firearms.

Timothy Wayne Sanders was set to stand trial on Nov. 4.

After the judge denied one of his motions prior to jury questioning on the day of the trial, Sanders decided to plead guilty to the indictment that charged him with two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.

Prior to his arrest in the federal case, Sanders was living with his aunt and uncle on Douglas Avenue in Rockwood.

Holly M. Wilkins, a 31-year-old Kingston woman, was accused of stealing from her mother on Wednesday.

Police were alerted about the alleged crime by an observant bank teller.

Wilkins drove her mother, Rema Metcalf, to the First Tennessee Bank on North Kentucky Street in Kingston.

Metcalf, according to the report, wanted to make a deposit at the drive-through window.

Roane County High School’s robotics team is kicking into high gear, busier than ever before in its third year of competiton.

This year, the team is building two robots instead of one.

“The game is very competitive this year and very hectic, so we aren’t sure which will work best,” said team captain Cothran Theiss, a junior. “We are going to see which one performs better once we have it built.”

It’s a totally different game this season, according to Theiss.

Each competition has been different.

On the five-year anniversary of his last bank robbery, Bryan Scott Samples was allegedly at it again.

According to the FBI, Samples robbed a Y-12 Federal Credit Union in Knoxville on Jan. 23.

On that day in 2010, he robbed an ORNL Federal Credit Union in Knoxville.

The FBI identified Samples, 43, as a Kingston resident.

He wore a hat with a University of Tennessee “Power T” on it in the ORNL robbery. He is also alleged to have worn a “Power T” hat in last week’s robbery of the Y-12 branch at 6640 Clinton Hwy.