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Evacuation ordered for neighborhoods near Shoun Trucking on Tennessee 126

UPDATE: BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The driver of a bulldozer that smashed into a gas pipeline, sending natural gas shooting into the air just feet from Tennessee Route 126 between Bristol and Blountville on Friday, was nowhere to be found when emergency responders arrived.

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Related Topix: Bristol, TN, Blountville, TN, Fire, Explosion

Thu Nov 19, 2009

TriCities.com

Sullivan County Republican committee votes to hold 2010 primary

Anyone wanting to run for a seat on the Sullivan County Commission or one of eight other locally elected offices can pick up a petition to get their name on the ballot starting today.

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Related Topix: Blountville, TN

Wed Nov 18, 2009

WSLS

Utility Worker Electrocuted In Bluff City

Investigators say a utility worker in northeastern Tennessee was killed when he was electrocuted and thrown from power pole.

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Related Topix: Bluff City, TN, Bristol, TN

Tue Nov 17, 2009

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Sullivan Co. votes to change employee health insurance provider

Sullivan County officials decided Monday to change their health insurance provider next year so they can continue to provide the benefit to employees while keeping the burden on taxpayers to a minimum.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Bristol, TN, Kingsport, TN, Bluff City, TN

Mon Nov 16, 2009

WTVC Chattanooga

Child Rape Arrest

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Fugitive division arrested David Blevins, 58, on Monday after receiving indictments from Sullivan County, Tenn.

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Chattanoogan.com

Man Wanted On Sullivan County Child Rape Warrants Arrested In Hixson

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office fugitive division on Monday arrested a 58-year-old man on warrants from Sullivan County for three counts of child rape.

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Related Topix: Hamilton County, TN, Hixson, TN

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Post Politics

Herron Wins Straw Poll In East Tennessee

" Sen. Roy Herron decisively won the second Democratic straw poll in the race for Governor on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Blountville, TN, Rutherford County, TN

Thu Nov 12, 2009

TriCities.com

Lucy doesn't make finals for world's 'cutest dog'

Lucy Super Pound Puppy isn't letting the fact that she may not be the world's "cutest dog" stymie her efforts to help Sullivan County build a new animal shelter.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

WBIR-TV Knoxville

Paralyzed man trapped 30 hours survives NY crash

A paralyzed man who was trapped when his car drove off an upstate New York road and plummeted down an embankment is alive to tell the tale.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Tomahawk Online

State treasurer, legislators make visit to area

Tennessee State Treasurer David H. Lillard, Jr., accompanied by Rep. Jason Mumpower, Rep.

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Related Topix: Johnson County, TN, Mountain City, TN

Sat Nov 07, 2009

TriCities

Woman saves lives of Sullivan County, Tenn., animals by sending them north

For Ada Flaherty, it's a drive up North. For her clients - animals in need of homes - it's a new life story.

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Related Topix: Bristol, TN

Fri Nov 06, 2009

TriCities.com

More charges face woman in Blountville meth lab bust

Authorities have upped the charges on a woman arrested Thursday after police stumbled upon a meth lab in her kitchen.

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Related Topix: Blountville, TN, Drugs, Bristol, TN

Thu Nov 05, 2009

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Meth lab discovered in Sullivan trailer park

Authorities happened upon a meth lab in a Sullivan County trailer park Thursday afternoon when they arrived to serve a warrant for failing to appear in court on a traffic charge.

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Related Topix: Drugs

Wed Nov 04, 2009

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Bluff City Man Charged With Several Burglaries

Sullivan County Sheriff's Office charged a Bluff City man with several burglaries over the last couple of months.

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Related Topix: Bluff City, TN

Tue Nov 03, 2009

TriCities.com

Sullivan schools receive annual report card

Nine of Sullivan County's 24 public elementary and middle schools scored a "C" average on an annual report card released Tuesday by the Tennessee Department of Education.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Standardized Testing, Education, Blountville, TN, Bristol, TN, Bluff City, TN

Mon Nov 02, 2009

MyEyeWitnessNews.com

Boyfriend Pleads Guilty in Death of Girlfrienda s Son

A Sullivan County man entered a last-minute guilty plea to reduced charges in the death of his girlfriend's toddler son and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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Related Topix: Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Nashville Scene

Morning Roundup: It's Impersonation Thursday

Giving the nod to property rights over gun rights, state Attorney General Bob Cooper opines that landlords can bar tenants from bringing weapons on the property even if said tenants have handgun carry permits.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Fri Oct 30, 2009

TriCities.com

Sullivan school officials say there was liquor in one of its warehouses, but deny porno DVDs

Several bottles of whiskey were indeed heisted from a Sullivan County school system warehouse during a recent break-in, but school officials deny the eight pornographic DVDs found along with them were ever in the building.

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Related Topix: Blountville, TN

The Knoxville News Sentinel

School report explains booze in building, not porn

An internal report by Sullivan County schools officials explains where whiskey taken from a school system warehouse came from.

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Related Topix: Blountville, TN, Kingsport, TN

Thu Oct 29, 2009

TriCities.com

Father, Son duo charged with burglary

After several stolen items were located at a local pawn shop, a father and son are in jail - charged with burglary.

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Related Topix: Prison, Piney Flats, TN, Johnson City, TN

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