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Breanna Huckaby learned a little bit about supporting a brood of children and an out-of-work husband last week.

It had an impact.

“I’m not having kids — not any time soon,” she said.

The Midway High School student joined classmates in the program called On My Own, which has students role play different scenarios of adulthood.

They try to budget for food, transportation, housing, child care and more for a month of expenses.

It was a cold splash of reality for some of them.

A Kingston native and Roane County High School alumnus who captured a precious moment of his son’s adoration on video may be up for big bucks.

Josh Houston has already won $10,000 from ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Video,” and the family is in the running for $100,000.

Houston, who was first-base coach for his two sons’ baseball team, was urging his then 3-year-old son Tripp to run to second base when the precocious child paused to share how much he cares for his dad.

In the school Malika Skogsholm attends in Norway, technology is a part of every class.

It’s an aspect she’s had to learn to live without to a large degree while attending Oliver Springs High School this year as an exchange student staying with Nancy Thompson.

“We write everything by hand here,” she said. “I’m used to laptops we use. That is really different.”

Another aspect is that at home she doesn’t have different people in the classrooms for each course. Here she changes classes and classmates.

Convicted crack cocaine dealer Ralph O’Neal is trying to take on the role of jail rights activist.

O’Neal, who is being held at the jail awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge, sent a letter to the Roane County Commission and County Executive Ron Woody requesting funds for the construction of an exercise room at the county jail.

“This exercise room with some workout material could easily help curb some addiction,” he wrote. “If it helps a small percentage it would be well worth it.”