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Former Vanderbilt football player and police officer sentenced to 26 years in prison
Former police officer and Vanderbilt football player Cassen Jackson-Garrison will spend the next 26 years in prison following his January conviction of statutory rape. He was sentenced April 12 and does not have the possibility of parole. Jackson-Garrison was found guilty in Knox County court of grooming and having sex...
Pool, animal shelter, streets ... Oak Ridge City Council ranks future projects
Replacing or renovating the pool, increasing the amount of money spent on street improvements, building a new animal shelter: Oak Ridge City Council members recently ranked their priorities among large projects facing the city as the local government staff prepares the budget proposal for the upcoming year and looks to budget years ahead.
Volunteer Energy Cooperative plans power outage for Ten Mile area on April 19
ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. — The Volunteer Energy Cooperative announced a planned power outage for the Ten Mile area of Roane and Meigs counties on Friday evening. VEC said the outage is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. and is expected to last for approximately six hours. The outage will affect 6,400 members from the Ten Mile Substation.
National debt is topic of 2 speakers April 22 at Anderson Democratic women's meeting
The national debt and the deficit will be the topic of discussion at the Monday, April 22, meeting of the Anderson County Democratic Women’s Club at the Clinton Community Center, 101 S. Hicks St. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m., with a social gathering and pizza offered for...
Security issues to be topic at April 24 Altrusa Oak Ridge meeting
"Security issues and more" will be the topic at the Wednesday, April 24, meeting of Altrusa International of Oak Ridge at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. Speakers will be Brandon Ingram, of Covenant Health, and Oak Ridge School Superintendent Bruce Borchers. This meeting topic was scheduled for March, but postponed until Aprill 24. ...
1940s stack at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gets repaired after crews climb 250 feet up
In Oak Ridge, the latest piece of deteriorating infrastructure from the 1940s to get a much-needed repair is also the tallest: a 250-foot stack at Oak Ridge National Laboratory built in 1949. Unlike old nuclear reactors or chemical processing buildings that were vacant and unused for decades before being demolished,...
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