Today's News

For the third consecutive week, the Kingston Optimist Club football program swept three all three games of the Tennessee Valley League. However, even with the sweep of Rockwood, Kingston still trails Oak Ridge West in two of the division standings. Oak Ridge had an even bigger weekend when they swept Harriman in three games and then swept Oak Ridge East Tuesday night in a make up game from a rain out three weeks ago.

By LEONARD PITTS JR.
Lyndon Johnson once said of Gerald Ford that  he “played too much football with his helmet off.”
Theodore Roosevelt once called William Howard Taft “a fathead with the brains of a guinea pig.”
Harper’s Weekly once described Ulysses S. Grant as “a drunken Democrat dragged out of the Galena (Ill.) gutter.”

Harriman police caught a man breaking into gas pumps at the Exxon self-service station on Roane Street, where the pumps are enabled to take cash.
William F. Packett, Harriman, was taken into custody.
According to the Harriman Police Department, officers found Packett beating the machine on Sunday, Oct. 3, at 5:44 a.m.
“When we drove into the lot the subject threw the tools down and fled, running on foot toward the high school,” according to the police report.

Editor’s note: Readers are cautioned that some names may be the same as or similar to other members of the community.

Elizabeth K. Long, seat belt law Dec. 7, 2009. Guilty as charged Feb. 19, convicted.

Amanda L. Parmer, seat belt law Dec. 19, 2009. Guilty as charged Feb. 19, convicted.

Jacob C. Brown, speeding Dec. 9, 2009. Dismissed Feb. 19, traffic school.

Izz-Aldin A. Mustafa, speeding Dec. 7, 2009. Traffic ticket paid Feb. 9.