The Comprehensive Care Center of Nashville will open a satellite clinic in Cookeville on Thursday, Feb. 27. Until now, the nearest such clinic was in Nashville, 70 miles away.
There are approximately 200 people in the Upper Cumberland with the virus or with AIDS.
The Cookeville clinic is one of several to be established across Tennessee by the privately-owned Comprehensive Care Center in conjunction with the State Department of Health. The location of the clinic was kept private to protect the identity of the patients.
Rep. Charles Curtiss, D-Sparta, is sponsoring a bill that would increase sentences for people who use their positions in the community to sexually abuse youngsters.
He classified teachers, coaches, youth group leaders, church officials and others as examples of authority figures.
These pedophiles who are in positions of authority will prey upon our children whenever they get a chance, Curtiss said. If they violate the public trust, they need to be punished.
Sexual abuse is a class C felony punishable by three to five years in prison for an adult who abuses a child under age 13. Those guilty of the class E felony of sexually abusing children 13 to 15 would possibly face one to six years in prison.
Sexually abusing children age 15 or younger would be increased to a class C felony under Curtiss bill.
Curtiss mentioned a case in McMinnville, Tenn., where a public school coach abused adolescent team members but received a one-year prison term because the boys were under the age of 13.
That’s the issue before the Cookeville City Council.
Councilman Don Wagnon recently asked that a resolution be drawn up that would change the city’s charter to allow non-resident property owners to vote in city elections, according to the Herald-Citizen.
Although the idea has its proponents, opponents to the concept are quick vocalize their concerns.
When I spoke to the State Election Commissioner, he told me straight out, Don’t do it, said Cookeville City Manager Jim Shipley. Personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea.
In the rap video of gangland life in Los Angeles, Shakur, who was killed in September, lifts a child onto a table. When that little girl turns to face the camera, the frame fills with a face remarkably like that of Jameika Porch.
She disappeared more than two years ago from her maternal grandmother’s home. The girl would be 7 years old now.
We think it’s her, said Elizabeth Dixon, Jameika’s paternal grandmother. We’re all upset. We know it’s her. It looks just like her. Chattanooga Detective Tim Carroll is asking Los Angeles television stations to run the clip and ask for help in identifying the little girl. Joyce Porch, the missing girl’s mother, said she did not like that idea.
I don’t want it on TV or in the paper. Whoever’s got her might run again, she said. A man at Death Row Studio, who would not identify himself, would say only that no casting was done for the clip, and the studio has no names of people in the video.
The driver’s license of Steve Hampton was found Wednesday by a state Department of Transportation road crew in a grassy area some 10 miles from the restaurant.
Hampton, 25, the manager of the Captain D’s, and Sarah Jackson, a 16-year-old employee, were killed Sunday morning before the restaurant opened. Robbery is believed to be the motive. No arrests have been made.
The bodies of the two were found lying in the cooler in the back of the restaurant in suburban Donelson a few miles from the Opryland USA theme park. Officers have not said how much money was taken. On Wednesday, Gov. Don Sundquist authorized the maximum state reward of $5,000 per victim for information leading to the apprehension, indictment and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the slayings. Seagate Foods Inc., which operates a Captain D's franchise group, also added $1,000 to the reward fund. The total reward in the case is now $27,000.
Authorities said Brian Sean Stackpole has admitted discharging pepper spray at Great American Steak & Buffet Co. and at Wong’s Palace, and could be brought up on charges today.
Stackpole’s girlfriend, Sarah Jolene Ogle, 16, is being held at the Knox County Juvenile Detention Center on a felony reckless endangerment charge for allegedly discharging pepper spray Monday night at Wong’s.
Additional warrants for assault are pending against the pair, authorities said.
All the 15-month-old, 100-page web site has gotten is an inquiry from someone wanting to raise chinchillas. The Elizabethton-Carter County Economic Development Commission voted Friday to disconnect the site. Interim Director Haynes Elliott said he hasn’t used the Internet since he took over recently.
I probably have 20 bona fide prospects and I haven’t had it on, don’t need it, he said. The service that provides automatic updates for the page recently billed the commission $1,225.
Lonnie Turner, 24, will be eligible for parole in 25 years on the felony murder charge. He will be sentenced May 2 on a conviction for aggravated rape. A jury convicted Turner Thursday for the Jan. 4, 1995, death of Sandra Coleman, 30, who was raped with a flashlight and strangled with an electrical cord. Written on her stomach were the words Viktory Cantrell.
A woman named Regina Cantrell, who has children with Turner, was angry at Coleman and was one of several people who could have killed her, defense attorney Scott Daniel said, arguing the prosecution hadn’t proved its case.
But assistant district attorney John Price said during closing arguments that Turner couldn’t escape the fact the flashlight and Coleman’s body showed his DNA and his handwriting was found on her body. The jury deliberated for three-and-a-half hours before returning their guilty verdicts.
Amnon Shreibman flew out of Nashville International Airport Wednesday after confirming that his 20-year-old son, Israeli Air Force officer Nir Shreibman, was killed in Tuesday’s crash, said longtime friend Danny Simmons of Smyrna.
We had visited at length Monday before the crash for about half a day when he told me how proud he was of his son, who had advanced to an officer’s rank in the Israeli Air Force while being only 20 years old, Simmons said.
Amnon Shreibman is a naturalized American citizen who spends about half his time here for business and the remainder in Israel with his family. He has lived in Rutherford County since 1984, but Nir Shreibman never lived here.
The crash, which killed 73 soldiers in the country’s worst military accident, occurred in rain and fog as troops headed to southern Lebanon.
And while the number of crimes reported to police rose in six of eight categories, homicide and arson cases declined, according to departmental figures released Friday.
Homicide reports declined more than 8 percent and arsons were down 16.32 percent, but aggravated assaults against police officers were up from 88 to 106, and property crimes increased by 5.84 percent. The total number of reported crimes was up 6.26 percent.
Memphis Police Director Walter Winfrey attributed the hike of nearly 20 percent in aggravated assaults to stiffer requirements for taking domestic-violence reports.
I think though that we are on the verge of reaching a place where crime is settling off, Winfrey said. And I’m hoping that the next trend is downward.
Mayor W.W. Herenton has issued an ultimatum to energize the department, after recognizing that violent crime is decreasing in other cities. Memphis police officials came up with a plan Jan. 31 to put more officers on the street and reduce administrative bloat, which Winfrey hopes will make the department more effective and accountable.
The lawsuit stemmed from the arrest last year of Thadeus Leyne, 57, on charges of assault and resisting arrest at a shopping center.
The jury ruled that Officers John Rucker and Danny Wagner violated Leyne’s rights. The charges were dropped when the officers did not show for a hearing.
Leyne was arrested after women making a deposit at a bank after hours reported seeing a suspicious van. Leyne started to pull away and the officers stopped him. Police said they have not had a chance to review the verdict and could not comment.
The child’s parents noticed that the jaw of their daughter Jasmine Copeland, now 3, was red and swollen when they picked her up from the Care and Play day-care on Nov. 26. X-rays revealed that Jasmine had suffered a broken jaw. Hospital officials called the state Department of Human Services, who called police. There is nothing a 2-year-old can do that should make you break their jaw, said Jasmine’s father Hubert Copeland.
Police said they later found out that Sutton had also punished Jasmine for hitting another child by putting liquid soap in the girl’s mouth. Sutton is free on bond, but faces a 15- to 25-year prison sentence if she is found guilty.
I want to make sure we don’t place children in the state’s custody into an unnatural environment, McDaniel said.
Spokeswoman Susan Boyd said the state Children’s Services Department supports the intent of the bill and discourages the placement of foster children in the homes of homosexuals
Sheriff Det. Sgt. Preble Morton said William Michael Edwards Jr. died after fire erupted about 2 a.m. Wednesday in the ceiling above his bedroom.
Patrol Sgt. Joe Gray said family members awoke to a scream and heavy smoke. Edwards’s father, William Michael Edwards Sr., and his sisters went to the boy’s bedroom but couldn’t enter, Gray said.
Firefighters found the boy’s body in his bedroom. The father, the boy’s sisters and an infant all got out alive.
The cause of the fire had not been determined.
Both Domino’s and Pizza Hut reported extremely good sales especially in the late-afternoon hours Sunday.
It’s absolutely one of the best days of the year for us, said Craig Powers, manager of Domino’s in Harriman. From 4:30 to 6 p.m., we were slammed. I guess everyone’s getting ready for the game and want to get the eating part out of the way.
I guess we had an increase of sales of about 40 percent, and that’s a pretty big chunk, Powers added.
Debbie Fritts, manager of the Kingston Pizza Hut, said her store did approximately $400 more in business during Super Bowl Sunday.
The allegations stem from an arrest last year in which William Seagroves was charged with criminal transmission of HIV. The suit names the city, the Cookeville Police Department and police Detective David Gragg as defendants.
In January 1996, according to the Herald-Citizen, Gragg took out a warrant against Seagroves for criminally exposing a woman to the AIDS virus.
The warrant alleged that Seagroves had engaged in sex with the woman without informing her that he was infected with HIV. But when the case came to court, Seagroves presented proof that he had tested negative for HIV. The charge was subsequently dropped.
Seagroves claims he has suffered damage to his reputation, severe emotional distress and no longer feels comfortable in the community. The case will be heard in Chancery Court.
Rep. Bart Gordon’s bill would remove motor sports from a Food and Drug Authority prohibition on tobacco brand-name sponsorship of sporting events and stock car racing. This is an absurd regulation that can have a devastating impact on stock car racing, a sport loved by millions in Tennessee and throughout the nation, said Gordon, a Democrat.
The FDA has been authorized by President Clinton to start a plan prohibiting tobacco brand name use in sponsoring any sporting event. The corporate name still could be used, but Gordon said industry analysts think few corporations would have any financial incentive to advertise that way.
Like driving itself, smoking is legally restricted to those above a certain age. The Winston Cup series does not encourage illegal teen smoking anymore than it does illegal teen driving, said Gordon.
Sullivan County Public Defender Steve Wallace filed a motion Wednesday asking that all references to his client’s nickname be dropped from indictments handed down against him. Wallace believes calling Osborne by his nickname could dilute his presumption of innocence. Osborne, 27, apparently earned the Spiderman moniker as a result of his work high above the ground setting up rides for carnivals.
Osborne is facing trial in Sullivan County on one count of especially aggravated kidnapping and six counts of aggravated rape. All stem from the abduction of a Bristol, Tenn., woman outside a coin laundry on Volunteer Parkway Oct. 9. Prosecutors say the incident led to a 300-mile crime spree. Osborne was a carnival worker who stayed behind in Bristol, Va., after the carnival left last May.
Lt. Don Jeffers of the Tennessee Highway Patrol oversees 13 counties of northeast Tennessee and says his division had seized 31 cars. That’s about one a day since the law took effect Jan. 1.
From what I understand, they’re not surprised because it’s been pretty well-publicized, Jeffers said.
After a car is impounded, officers have five working days to go before a judge to show probable cause for seizure.
Kimbrough says cars seized will be sold. He said 15 percent of the money goes to the seizing agency while 85 percent goes to fund state drug and alcohol rehabilitation for convicted drunken drivers.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says he did.
Police records show Officer John Collins heard loud music coming from the house, where crack cocaine was known to be sold, in May 1996 and ordered it turned down.
The music wasn’t turned down, so Collins allegedly made an anonymous 911 phone call to complain about the music.
A melee ensued after Collins responded to the call.
Five officers and two civilians were treated at a hospital while five other people were arrested. Collins denied making the call during a General Sessions Court hearing, but was fired after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe said he did make the call.
Collins is free on $1,000 bond pending a criminal court hearing.
McMinnville attorney Bernard Smith argued that the search warrants, used in connection with the Jan. 16 arrest of client Joe Caldwell, may have been a day late being served.
State law mandates that officers have a certain amount of time in which to carry out a search asked for in the warrants. Caldwell has been charged with multiple drug and weapons offenses.
Mr. Darwin began his career in the mercantile business in 1927 as a partner in Johnson and Darwin Dry Good Store in Livingston. The store became the first branch of the Jenkins and Darwin Bros chain. The 1928, Mr. Darwin moved to McMinnville to open and manage the second branch of Jenkins and Darwin Bros., and he continued there until 1931 when he moved to Cookeville.
In 1952, he and his son, Ted, started Darwin’s, a chain of stores in Tennessee and Alabama. He remained a partner of Darwin’s until 1970, when he retired. Although he was an avid stamp collector and coin collector, he devoted much of his time to growing prize-winning chrysanthemums.
Services for Mr. Darwin were Jan. 27 at the First Presbyterian Church.
The hero, Tiffany Fults, and her younger sister, Brittany Fults, were presented with plaques rewarding their quick thinking.
I regret it happened every day. And I accept responsibility for it, Marion T. Tom Cross told U.S. District Judge James Jarvis during a sentencing hearing on Tuesday.
Cross, 42, a former certified blaster for the now-defunct Sugar Ridge Coal Co. and Clem Hollifield, its safety director, pleaded guilty last August to violating conditions of the company’s special blasting permit on June 4, 1993.
The blast sent flyrock sailing onto I-75 where it struck the car 16-year-old Brian Agujar of Denham Springs, La., was riding in, killing him. Cross will spend five months in a federal prison and five months on home detention.
It seems to me here that the most important reason we need to impose a prison sentence ... is as an example to others who might ... be tempted to violate the law, as you did, Jarvis said.
Hollifield was sentenced to three months in a halfway house and five months on home detention.
A farmer found the wrecker and destroyed ATM in his field around 7 a.m. Tuesday, Police Capt. Richard Smith said.
About the same time, a Farmers Bank customer called police to say the ATM was gone, FBI spokesman Ken Walsh said.
An alarm alerted police when the ATM was snatched from its drive-through lane, Smith said. Officers checked the building, not realizing that the cash machine in the far drive-through lane outside was gone.
Smith said his officers followed proper procedure in checking the building. There had been several false calls from the bank and the bank’s president told police that the bank was having problems with its alarm system, Smith said.
When police interviewed the boy in the presence of his mom, police said he admitted to robbery, but at the direction of Norris.
Everything he had done was at the direction of James Norris, according to him, Lt. Jim Gage said. There is no reason to doubt him. We feel like Norris had a psychological hold over the boy.
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