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Today's News

  • Lady Jackets come up just short of region

    It’s hard to beat a good team three times in a season.

    The Kingston Lady Jackets found out just how hard Thursday evening, as despite sweeping Stone Memorial in the regular season, the Lady Panthers ended Kingston’s season with a 2-1 victory in the District 4-AA Tournament at Alcoa.

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  • Bobcats suffer heartbreaking loss

    So close yet so far. 

    That’s the most apt way to describe the Oliver Springs Bobcats having a region berth within grasp before the Oakdale Eagles rallied in extra innings for a 4-3 victory, sending the Eagles to the Region 2-A Tournament and leaving Oliver Springs to ponder what might have been. 

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  • Lady ‘Cats roll to district title

    Championship games separate the good teams from the great ones. 

    Thursday evening, it was the Oliver Springs Lady Bobcats that were destined for greatness with an impressive 8-1 win over the Coalfield Lady Jackets to win the District 4-A Softball Championship. 

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  • Lady Waves advance to region tourney, Harriman eliminated

    The District 3-A Softball Tournament came to a close Thursday night at Tellico Plains.

    Two Roane County teams, Harriman and Midway, met in the loser’s bracket elimination game. Midway lived to fight another day with a 6-3 win over Harriman. The victory secured Midway a berth in next week’s Region 2-A Tournament.

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  • Tigers rally for 3-A championship

    In what will go down as one of the greatest comebacks in Rockwood baseball history, Jake Witter’s squad erased a 10-7 deficit by scoring six runs in their final at bat to defeat the Grace Christian Rams 13-10 Thursday night in the District 3-A Championship Game played at Grace.

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  • Kingston's Day in the sun
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  • Midtown wreck driver cited

    Trooper Gary Snow said James Britton, the driver who allegedly caused a chain-reaction crash in Midtown on May 3, was cited for failure to exercise due care. The wreck was at the intersection of Roane State Highway and Ruritan Road.

    According to police reports, two SUVs were stopped at the traffic light when Britton’s pickup crashed into the back of a TrailBlazer.
    Snow identified the SUV drivers as John F. Rinke and Andrea L. Lawson.

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  • New charge lodged against Leon Houston

    A superseding indictment was filed against Leon Houston in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
    The superseding indictment replaces the one filed against Houston in January. 
    In addition to the original charge of possessing firearms while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance, he’s now also charged with use of a telephone to threaten an individual.
    Houston has been in custody at the Blount County Jail in Maryville since January. The alleged threat occurred on Feb. 10.

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  • Watergate era was journalism at its finest

    By GENE POLICINSKI
    First Amendment Center
    Forty years ago this week, The Washington Post — and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein” — took home a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the Watergate scandal.
    Other winners in journalism that year included the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and Knight Newspapers, and entries from several local newspapers   — all part of what we today would call “mainstream media.”

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  • A VIEW from LICK SKILLET: Is NRA endangering Second Amendment?

    Two things have prompted us to return to the topic of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
    The first was a recent PBS programme “Need to Know,” wherein three college professors, and self-identified experts, expounded upon the meaning of the Amendment, erroneously, in our opinion.
    The second was the recent national convention of the National Rifle Association.

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