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From our media partner WYMT TV
As we told you yesterday Middlesboro police hit the streets before dawn arresting more than one dozen people on drug related charges. Police say for every person in handcuffs they take off the streets means less crime. Officers say most crime is connected to drugs. Tom Busic with Middlesboro police said: "People that have an addiction, they usually resort to theft to support that drug habit. So when they go to a house or a neighborhood to buy drugs... you are bring thieves in your neighborhood to buy drugs," Police say doing drug roundups not only helps control the drug problem, but it cleans up the area. Police consider this roundup a success and say they will arrest those that they did not find eventually.
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Several negative comments were made by the state auditors office in the release of the Knox County Fiscal Court audit that reviewed the county’s financial records from July 1, 2008 to June 30 2009. The audit noted that it found that the financial statements were fairly presented, with the exception of the effects of not recording all general infrastructure assets in governmental activities. More than $6,000 in credit card expenditures Judge executive J.M. Hall responded to the comment by referring to additional supporting documents, but the auditors found that the documentation only detailed the purchases and did not include the actual invoice. Several other comments were made in the audit, which can be viewed online, including additional comments from Judge Executive J.M. Hall, at www.auditor.ky.gov.
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More than $1 million is federal grant funding is heading to Whitley County.
Congressman Hal Rogers’ Office said the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded funds to support improvements at the Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport. The $300,000 Federal Aviation Administration grant will support the construction of a ten unit T-Hanger building. Also, according to Rogers’ Office, the Appalachian Regional Commission, in partnership with the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority and other local entities, will award $768,000 to the Whitley County Water District water system improvement project, expected to result in new service for 72 households.
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In Tennessee news
From WVLT TV
Yesterday an armed man was shot by deputies at an East Tennessee high school after going inside and pointing a gun at the principal's head has died. Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson said at a news conference there's "no doubt" that 62-year-old Thomas Richard Cowan of Kingsport intended to kill somebody at Sullivan Central High School. Anderson said Cowan's motive has not been determined. No students or teachers were hurt and school was dismissed at 10:30. WJHL-TV reports that Anderson said a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will likely determine the motive. Anderson said Cowan entered the school with a .380-caliber semi-automatic and a .25-caliber handgun in his back pocket.