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Drug kingpin released from jail

Pill ring leader John Wesley Goss has been released pending sentencing. His attorney made the request last month because Goss has Stage 4 cancer and has an expected three months to live.

Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan granted the request on Tuesday, which allowed Goss to leave the Knox County Jail and return to his parents home at 511 W. Rockwood St. in Rockwood.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not oppose the release.

DAV van purchased

Disabled American Veterans Post 86 received a new van last month for its program to transport veterans for treatment at Veterans Administration medical facilities in Murfreesboro and Nashville.

Coordinator John Maliskey had been working since last year to get funds together. He said it was a broader effort.

“The community support was so overwhelming that it almost took your breath away,” Maliskey said. For instance, $6,000 was raised during a road block in Kingston.

Woman charged in robbery

Rockwood police charged Stephanie Lynn Foland and two others in an alleged robbery that occurred last month. Foland, 25, was arrested on Monday.

Foland was a passenger in a car that was involved in a police shooting on Feb. 9.

Her boyfriend, Christopher Lee Powers, allegedly rammed Roane County Sheriff’s Deputy John Mayes’ patrol car, which prompted Mayes to fire several shots into the windshield.

Powers was shot multiple times, but Foland avoided being hit.

She said Mayes pulled up and started shooting without cause.

County commissioner charged with DUI

What started as a seat-belt infraction ended up as a trip to jail for District 2 County Commissioner Greg Ferguson.

He was arrested on Monday in Midtown on charges of driving under the influence.

“I don’t know the circumstances,” Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said. “The captain of the patrol division called and told me that THP had arrested one of our commissioners.”

According to the warrant, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Alexander Evans stopped Ferguson for a seat-belt violation.

This might sound cold, but ....

Dear Winter,

It’s over.

I’m breaking up with you.

It’s not you. It’s me.

Wait! No. I have to tell you the truth.

It’s YOU.

I have tried and tried to be understanding. I don’t complain about your insensitivity. I have defended you and your reckless behavior ad nauseam to my friends, family and co-workers.

But it has to stop.

School cancelled Thursday

School is cancelled in Roane County on Thursday. Director of School Gary Aytes announced the decision a few minutes ago. 

Under-the-sea professors pass on stories to kids

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Ridge View Elementary School were mesmerized by the undersea views projected on the walls of their auditorium on Wednesday.

They were just as absorbed with the stories shared by Roane State professors Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain, who — at 73 days — broke the world record for time spent living under the sea.

“I’ve always wanted to see the coral reef and schools of fish in person,” said fourth-grader Belle Webb.

Experiment could save addicts

Roane County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Tim Phillips once thought steel bars and barbed wire was the solution to crime. That’s not the case now.

“Fifteen years ago, I thought I could lock everybody up and save the world, and that’s not the answer,” Phillips told the Roane County Commission’s Sheriff’s Liaison Committee this week. “Now, if you got to lock somebody up that’s fine, but if we can help them, we need to help them.”

From ashes to home, Goddards regroup

Jerry and Sherron Goddard are still getting used to their new home on Cemetery Lane.

“Strange,” Jerry said about his surroundings.

The structure is in the same location where the Goddards have lived together for more than 30 years. Their original home was destroyed in a fire in December 2013. Instead of moving, the Goddards decided to rebuild. They moved into the new home last fall.

Sherron echoed her husband’s sentiments about the place.