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Motorcyclist killed in Hwy. 70...

A Knox County man was killed in a Feb. 21 wreck in Roane County.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said Rick W. Berry was riding a Honda VF1 motorcycle on Hwy. 70 near Gallaher Road around 4:40 p.m. when he ran off the right side of the roadway and struck a culvert.

Berry, 62, was wearing a helmet.

No other vehicles were involved in the wreck.

Emergency records painted a desperate scene.

The E-911 report said Berry was found unconscious with blood coming out of his mouth.

Double trouble, exploding trailer

A month before he is scheduled to stand trial for voluntary manslaughter, Eric Glenn Gallaher’s legal problems have grown.

The 33-year-old Harriman man was indicted on Feb. 18 for allegedly selling cocaine in a school zone. His twin brother, Derek Lynn Gallaher, is a co-defendant in the case.

Eric Gallaher turned himself in at the Roane County Jail Thursday morning.

FIVE YEARS IN PRISON

From staff reports

Leon Houston was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for threatening to kill the attorney who successfully defended him against first-degree murder charges in 2010.

“He is truly a dangerous person,” said U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves when he handed down the sentence at the federal courthouse in Knoxville.

“He has no remorse or respect for human life,” the judge continued. “He only respects his own twisted sense of justice.”

Convicted sex offender charged...

A convicted sex offender faces new accusations.

Christopher John Clark, 49, was indicted last month on three counts of child rape.

Court records list Clark’s address as 304 Cade Road, Kingston. He was arrested at his home on Feb. 21.

The grand jury indicted Clark on Feb. 18.

The indictment said his alleged crimes occurred between Jan. 1-Oct. 16, 2013.

Child rape is a Class A felony.

Clark is classified as a violent sex offender on the Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry.

NO MORE ‘ACHY BREAKY HEART’

For Christopher Forrester nothing is more joyful than music.

So when the teen, who suffers from Down syndrome, lost his expansive collection of CDs he was devastated.

The family was heading to church one Sunday when the collection was accidentally left on top of the family car.

“He lost 150 CDs or so,” said Forrester’s mother, Sarah Brown. “My neighbor said that morning he tried to holler at us and tell us it was on the car.”

“I thought he might grieve himself,” worried Brown.

Houston land will help poor

Roane County Habitat for Humanity now owns some of the property that Rocky and Leon Houston lost in foreclosure.

On March 12, 2009, the brothers and other members of the Houston family signed a deed of trust on four tracts of land that named Cleveland attorney James Logan as the beneficiary.

The property was used to secure attorney fees and expenses for Logan.

VA clinic set to open today

The new Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Rockwood is scheduled to open today – Wednesday, according to a press release from the Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.

The clinic is in the old Kroger shopping center, now called the Shoppes of Walden Ridge.

The VA said a grand opening ceremony for the new clinic is scheduled for April 16.

Estes in trouble with law again

Jim Estes, the father who twice allegedly violated an order of protection at Bowers Elementary School, has more legal trouble.

Last month he was indicted

on seven counts of prescription drug fraud. The charges are Class D felonies.

According to the indictment, the 48-year-old Estes unlawfully obtained or attempted to obtain Diazepam and Carisoprodol on seven different occasions in 2013.

Investigation underway into...

Roane County authorities were looking into the death of a 76-year-old man on Friday. Fred Cooper was found unresponsive in his yard at 112 Leffew Drive south of Rockwood. “Hard to tell anything right now,” Sheriff Jack Stockton said about the investigation, which was being handled at press time by Sheriff’s Detective Greg Scalf and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Leon Houston sentenced to five...

Leon Houston was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for threatening to kill Cleveland attorney James Logan, who successfully defended him against first-degree murder charges in 2010.

“He is truly a dangerous person,” said U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves when he handed down the sentence at the federal courthouse in Knoxville.

“He has no remorse or respect for human life,” the judge continued. “He only respects his own twisted sense of justice.”