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          <title>Woman Facing Eviction Apparently Shoots Herself</title>
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Police say a Sevierville woman apparently committed suicide as sheriff&#8217;s deputies were standing by, waiting for a possible eviction order.


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          <title>Knoxville Mall Shooting Suspect Moves From Hospital To Jail</title>
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 The man accused of fatally shooting a store employee in a Knoxville mall has moved from a hospital to jail, as relatives and friends searched for an explanation for his alleged actions.
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          <title>Judge Postpones Sentencing Bristol Man Convicted of Rape</title>
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. &#8211; A circuit court judge this afternoon put off sentencing Doug Young, convicted of aggravated rape, after his attorney announced he would be filing a motion to withdraw from the case.
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          <title>PREVIEW: Tri&#45;Cities Troops Set To Leave</title>
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More than 100 soldiers will soon be deployed.&nbsp; They&#8217;re from the 776th Tennessee National Guard based in Elizabethton.&nbsp; A parade is schedueld in Elizabethton at 1pm. WJHL-TV&#8217;s Darius Radzius reports live from the parade route on News Channel 11 at Noon.
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          <title>News Channel 11 Noon Recap 10/10</title>
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11 at Noon.


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          <title>TRCA Introduces Jet Service to Memphis</title>
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Tri-Cities Regional Airport released plans to introduce jet service to Memphis. Starting November 2nd, Northwest Airlines will offer regional jet service first thing in the morning.&nbsp;
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          <title>Exclusive interview with Senator Barack Obama</title>
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Keith Cate with sister station WFLA-TV in Tampa interviewed candidate Senator Barack Obama via satellite.
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          <title>Man Charged In Bluff City Slaying</title>
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A Chesapeake, Va., man charged in the death of a Bluff City man &#8211; who died from &#8220;very severe&#8221; cuts to his neck &#8211; is on the run but believed to be in the region, where he has family ties, Sullivan County&#8217;s sheriff said Thursday.
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          <title>Gray, TN Man In Court On Marijuana Charges</title>
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Garrett Gardner of Gray, Tennessee will appear in Washington County General Sessions Court on Monday facing drug charges.


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          <title>JC Man Allegedly Threatened Wife With Bat And Pitchfork</title>
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Johnson City&#8217;s Roger Fields is in jail Friday morning and scheduled to appear in court later in the day for allegedly threatening his wife with a baseball bat and a pitchfork.


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          <title>Tennessee Tax Collections Low, More Budget Cuts Projected</title>
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Tennessee leaders announced its general fund tax collections came in $78 million below estimates in August.


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          <title>Layoffs On the Way For Virginia Budget Cuts</title>
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Virginia leaders expect tax collections to fall at least $2.5 billion short of previous estimates. That is causing commonwealth leaders to slash the state budget.
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          <title>776th Send&#45;Off Parade Noon in Elizabethton</title>
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The Elizabethton community is preparing a send-off parade to honor soldiers in the 776th Maintenance Battalion who leave for deployment next Friday. Your Tri-Cities News Source will be on hand for the send-off. We&#8217;ll have a LIVE report from Elizabethton&#8217;s downtown on News Channel 11 at Noon
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          <title>News Channel 11&#8217;s Morning Edition Recap 10/10</title>
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Seeing is believing, especially when it comes to regular unleaded gas dropping below the $3-per-gallon mark.
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          <title>Popular Hope Cookies Have Returned</title>
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Some say there was magic in the cookies baked inside the Swallowtail Restaurant, which closed in June. Now, the restaurant staff &#8211; and their famous cookies &#8211; have found a new home inside the Abingdon Senior Center.
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          <title>Dragway Ministers Substitute Big&#45;Block Engine For Organ</title>
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Scott Trent had just opened his Bible to begin chapel service last Sunday morning when a tractor began to brush off the track. The swishing noise was loud, so Trent paused and waited for the vehicle to pass.
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          <title>Forum Compares Small&#45;Town Banks With National Institutions</title>
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&#8220;People need to be reassured that the banking system is not going to go down the tubes.&#8221;

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          <title>Arrest Warrant Issued, Reward Offered For Bluff City Murder Suspect</title>
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Federal, state, and local law enforcement are on the hunt for a man indicted for first degree murder of a Bluff City man, who was found dead in his apartment last month.
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          <title>Preventing Borders Wars</title>
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If you&#8217;ve ever had a disagreement with a neighbor, you know how a small matter can turn into a huge hassle. And if things accelerate and attorneys get involved&#8212;now you&#8217;ve got an expensive, messy affair. Consumer Reports points out some of the more frequent trouble spots and how to head off problems.
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          <title>ETSU Students Still Waiting On Financial Aid</title>
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Two months after the start of school, some East Tennessee State University students are still waiting to receive their financial aid. Last month, ETSU Financial Aid Office told us the delays were due to a rocky switch to a new computer system as well as slow delivery from a major lender, Ed-America.
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          <title>Drag Racing Appeal Moving Forward</title>
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David Phillips&#8217; appeal of his vehicular homicide conviction is moving forward slowly. A jury convicted Phillips in May 2007 in a deadly drag racing crash that killed Cortney Hensley and injured Courtney Beard. He was sentenced to six years in jail, but remains free while he appeals his conviction. Today, the Washington County Clerk&#8217;s Office delivered all of the paperwork from that case to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The next step in this process, Phillips&#8217; attorneys have 30 days to file their opening arguments with the Court of Appeals about why the conviction should be reversed.
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          <title>Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Johnson City Accident</title>
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Johnson City police say they&#8217;ve arrested a Kingsport man and charged him with vehicular homicide after a head-on collision in Johnson City Wednesday. According to Lt. Larry Williams, Travis Hensley is charged with vehicular homicide, felony reckless endangerment, and two counts of aggravated assault. The charges come after a Wednesday wreck at the intersection of West Walnut Street and St. Clair Street. Police say Hensley caused the head-on collision when he crossed into the center line striking another car. One of the passengers in that car was 83 year-old JC Odom who died as a result of the crash. His wife, Dorothy Odom, remains in the intensive care unit in serious condition.
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          <title>&#8220;STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Chase Foster,&#8221;</title>
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Chase Foster has been named News Channel 11/ Food City Student of The Week. Foster maintains a 4.0 grade point average at David Crockett High School in Jonesborough, Tennessee.&nbsp;
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          <title>News Channel 11 Noon Recap 10/10</title>
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11 at Noon


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          <title>Utah Mother And Kidnapping Suspect In Washington Co., TN Court</title>
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A woman police say kidnapped her baby and then lead them on a cross country manhunt to the Tri-Cities will appear in court Thursday afternoon.
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          <title>Reward Offered, Suspect Indicted in Bluff City Stabbing Death</title>
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The man earlier named by police as a person of interest in the September death of a Bluff City man has been indicted in the case, Sullivan County Sheriff Wayne Anderson announced today.
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          <title>Will Gas Prices Continue To Fall?</title>
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The national average for self-service regular unleaded was $3.45 per gallon, down about 20 cents from last week, and 66 cents below the all-time high of  $4.11 on July 17.Tell us about the gas prices in your neighborhood on the pump patrol 
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          <title>Three Men Arrested For Allegedly Robbing 83&#45;Year&#45;Old Man</title>
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Three Tri-Cities men are now behind bars after being arrested for allegedly robbing an 83-year-old Johnson City man.
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          <title>UPDATE:&amp;nbsp; ID&#8217;s Released In Knoxville Mall Shooting</title>
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Many questions remain unanswered about Wednesday&#8217;s shooting inside a Knoxville mall.
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          <title>UPDATE: Man Arrested For Allegedly Embezzling Thousands From Employer</title>
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A Johnson City man is in hot water today.

Police say he embezzled over $15,000 from his employer over the last 6 months.
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          <title>News Channel 11&#8217;s Morning Edition Recap 10/09</title>
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11&#8217;s Morning Edition


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          <title>Tennessee Unemployment Funds Possibly Running Low</title>
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A report by the national employment law project lists Tennessee as one of 14 states who have little money in the bank to pay unemployment.


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          <title>Residents Band Together To Battle Urban Sprawl, Rezoning</title>
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&#8220;If we lose, we will sue and we are prepared to take this to the Supreme Court. That&#8217;s how strongly we feel.&#8221;

  - Cathy Stephenson, spokeswoman for Bristol United
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For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising that every child between the ages of six months and 18 years get the vaccine, unless they have a serious egg allergy.
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50 business owners braved the rain and gray skies Wednesday to attend a presentation at the Bristol Chamber of Commerce that was aimed at improving their ability to bring laughter and humor to the office while maintaining a productive environment.&nbsp;
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By the time we reached The Tavern, Donnamarie Emmert was on a roll. And, well, a little out of breath.

We had, after all, been walking uphill from the Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon, Va. 

And every few houses, she stopped and told a crowd of about a dozen of us another story.

We heard about that mysterious horse that&#8217;s said to be roaming the hill across from the Barter Theatre, still looking for his master, gunned down in 1864.

And we heard about that ghost walking down the old hallway in the upper floor of the building that now houses The Star Museum &#8211; what were once the offices of the town&#8217;s beloved but now-defunct newspaper The Abingdon Virginian.
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Steele Creek Park To Host Speaker, Art Exhibit, More Oct. 10-11


BRISTOL, Tenn. &#8211; The 11th year for the Steele Creek Nature Center&#8217;s Wildlife Weekend will cover a variety of subjects and activities for all ages and activity levels on Oct 10-11. 

Crafts, activities for children, hikes and seminars abound, all with some of the top naturalists from the region and beyond. All events are free and will begin from the Steele Creek Park Lodge.

Keynote presenter is Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg, president of the North American Butterfly Association and author of several books, including the popular &#8220;Butterflies through Binoculars&#8221; field guide series. A reception on Friday begins at 6:15 p.m. with Glassberg speaking at 7 p.m. on &#8220;Butterflies through Binoculars.&#8221; At 8:15 p.m., a program on &#8220;Birds of Prey&#8221; will be presented by Marty Silver of  Warriors Path State Park in Kingsport.
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Charges are pending following a deadly head on car crash.
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Two hundred fifty gallons of gasoline worth $900 have been stolen from a Greeneville convenience store by someone driving a pickup truck towing a trailer.


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If you find yourself in the unemployment line, you expect a check to be waiting for you, but a report by the National Employment Law Project says Tennessee may be running low the money to pay you.
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A popular African-American magazine ranks Johnson City among the top 20 places in the country for African-Americans to retire. The October edition of Black Enterprise Magazine ranks Johnson City number eight on its list. After studying cities across the country, the magazine found Johnson City&#8217;s affordability, high level of health care, and climate to be great draws for African-Americans looking to retire. The Johnson City Chapter of the NAACP announced the honor earlier this morning. Other notable cities on the list include: Durham, North Carolina, which ranked 1st, Nashville, which came in 4th, and Asheville, North Carolina, which ranked 11th.


Check back later today to find out more about why Johnson City ranked so high.
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          <title>Have You Installed Your Digital Converter Box Yet?</title>
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On February 17th, 2009, television stations across the country will make the digital switch. That means if you rely on &#8220;rabbit ears&#8221; to get your television signal, unless you get cable or install a digital converter box, your television won&#8217;t work anymore. The federal government has offered coupons to buy those digital converter boxes.


We&#8217;re wondering if you&#8217;ve installed your digital converter box yet. If so, has it affected your favorite channels?


Let me know.


Email me at nmorabito@wjhl.com
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          <title>UT Student Pleads Not Guilty In Hacking of Palin&#8217;s Email Account</title>
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Read the court documents that detail how authorities allege David Kernell hacked into Sarah Palin&#8217;s email account and changed the password.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rate, How Will This Affect You?</title>
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Stocks are extending their big declines, with the Dow down another 200 points in late morning trading. 


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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bristol May Employ Eminent Domain To Get Easements</title>
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The city may use the power of eminent domain to acquire construction easements for a pending sewer project near Steele Creek Park.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Drug Impaired Client&#8217;s Judgement, Attorney Says</title>
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The defense attorney for a man accused of shooting a Washington County sheriff&#8217;s deputy laid out his strategy during a Tuesday morning hearing.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Web Site Lists Local Airports For &#8216;Air Taxi&#8217; Trips</title>
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Want to go to the beach today and be back in time for supper? It could be possible with a new Web site that allows people to easily book air taxi flights from Virginia Highlands Airport &#8211; or any of the other municipal airports in Southwest Virginia &#8211; to the destination of their choice.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Financial Crisis At Center Stage at First Congressional Debate</title>
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Anger and frustration over the nation&#8217;s current financial crisis and disappointment with the inability of current leaders to steer the country to an independent energy status were the common themes of a debate Tuesday night among candidates for the 1st District U.S. House seat.


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Wachovia&#8217;s decision to freeze the accounts of educational institutions it oversees will have minimal impact on the University of Virginia&#8217;s College at Wise, an administrator said Tuesday.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The newsprint on the Buchanan County weekly paper was already yellowing when a column in the Aug. 22 edition exploded into the national political dialogue three days ago. Like a political land mine, Bobby Lee May&#8217;s racially and culturally insensitive spoof of Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential platform lay quietly lodged in The Voice&#8217;s coverage area until a Los Angeles Times reporter unearthed it for a story published Sunday.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Playing off the term &#8220;Beer Goggles&#8221;, Google Labs has released &#8220;Mail Goggles&#8221;, which makes you solve math problems before allowing you to send late-night weekend e-mail.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>News Channel 11&#8217;s Morning Edition Recap 10/08</title>
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11&#8217;s Morning Edition


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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Tri&#45;Cities Task Force Takes On Influenza</title>
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Before they can sit in a booster seat, many infants may need to get a booster shot. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered the age for children to get flu immunizations to six months.  FIND FLU SHOT LOCATIONS INSIDE
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Voters in Tennessee will soon have their say. Early voting begins next Wednesday, October 15th and continues through October 30th.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Candidates discussed issues from Social Security to Healthcare at a forum Tuesday night.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Man Charged With Over 20 Counts of Fraud With Former Employer&#8217;s Credit Card</title>
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This story is a reminder to people and businesses to always know where your credit card is.

A Johnson City Petsmart is finding this out the hard way.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Washington County, Tennessee investigators are still investigating what they call a suspicious fire today.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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East Tennessee State University is offering free hearing screening Wednesday in honor of Deaf Awareness Week. 


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          <title>Driver Uninjured Following Highway 58 Overturned Auto Accident</title>
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A car flips on its side in the middle of a Southwest Virginia highway.


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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Sewer Line Work Stops Traffic on Rock Springs Rd.</title>
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Partial road closures are expected between Blakely Drive and Church View Drive on Rock Springs Road.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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West Market Street between Buffalo Street and Commerce Street is still closed to all traffic. This stretch of West Market Street will not re-open until midday Friday.
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          <title>Margarine All Weighs The Same</title>
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Q: Does whipped margarine weigh as much as regular margarine?&nbsp; 

&#8211; Sallie R., 

Bristol, Va.


A: Whipped margarine has air whipped into it, so the volume of whipped margarine will be more than un-whipped margarine. But one pound of whipped margarine weighs the same as one pound of margarine solids.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Local Governments Wait For The Vice Grip On America&#8217;s Bond Market To Loosen</title>
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Cities and counties use municipal bonds to fund new schools, roads, and water and sewer lines.&nbsp; As the economy struggles, strapped investors don&#8217;t have money to lend, or issue bonds at elevated interest rates.
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High gas prices mean more bikes on the streets, and cyclists want drivers to learn how to share the road.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>UPDATE: Police Say Brother Corrected Dad About Who Was Really Driving In Crash Involving 10&#45;Year&#45;Old</title>
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Police say the younger brother corrected his dad when officers asked who was driving the van that crashed, revealing that a 10-year old had been behind the wheel driving 90 miles an hour moments before the Sunday crash.&nbsp; 


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          <title>Exclusive interview with Governor Sarah Palin</title>
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Keith Cate with sister station WFLA-TV in Tampa interviewed Republican VP candidate Governor Sarah Palin at a rally in Ft. Myers on Oct. 6, 2008 for an exclusive interview.&nbsp; This is the unedited tape of that conversation.
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          <title>News Channel 11 Noon Recap 10/07</title>
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11 at Noon.


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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>WTFM&#8217;s &#8216;Bras Across The Tri&#8217; Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness</title>
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Some Tri-Cities homeowners awoke this morning to flooding in their front yards. It hasn&#8217;t rained in days in Johnson City, but along Forrest Avenue and Lowell Street, there is plenty of water.
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Tennessee district one congressional candidates face off Tuesday evening in a debate in Greeneville. It will be held at 7p.m. at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.
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Voter registration ended at 5 p.m. Monday, and local election officials in Virginia and Tennessee say the number of voters has risen in comparison to the 2004 election.
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A traffic advisory for drivers hitting the road Tuesday morning in Southwest Virginia.
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A Johnson City woman will appear in court today after Johnson City Police say she allegedly stole over $1,000 worth of property at a

Bi-Lo convenience store.
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The Washington County School Board reaffirmed its policy Monday prohibiting the posting of students&#8217; names with pictures on school Web sites.
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The Abingdon Town Council did not vote on an agreement Monday night spelling out details of a joint sports complex with Washington County, opting instead to ask for another meeting with county officials.
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City leaders said Monday they plan to restrict spending for the next two months to avoid any possible cash flow problems.
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The only boat ramp along Netherland Inn Road in Kingsport has been closed for the last few weeks, and residents want to know why.
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District 2 State Representative candidates talk about plans to fix the dangerous road.
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Southwest Virginia soldiers deployed for Iraq today.
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R.H. Donnelley in Bristol, Tennessee notified 46 employees they would lose their jobs.&nbsp;
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Catch the top headlines from News Channel 11 at Noon.


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Investigators are looking into what sparked a fire that tore through a Unicoi County house Monday morning. The fire sparked around 10:45a.m. on Anderson Chapel Circle in Unicoi County near the Carter County line.
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Local tourism officials expect 25,000 visitors to pass through Washington County, Va., as they set out to see the leaves change colors this fall.
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Time is running out to register to vote in the November elections. Monday is the deadline in Tennessee and Virginia. North Carolina&#8217;s deadline is Friday October 10th.&nbsp;
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A Johnson City man will appear in court later today, accused of holding three men at gunpoint.
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A Tri-Cities woman accused of wielding a knife and wounding a person will appear in court today.
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&#8220;We&#8217;d see those shark fins swimming around us. They were as curious about us as we were them. A man would get a high fever from an injury. He would begin to hallucinate and imagine he saw an oasis. He would leave to swim to it and all of a sudden you would hear a blood-curdling scream and he would disappear. Then, his kapok [life] jacket would appear in a red pool of blood growing in the water.&#8221; 

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&#8220;It&#8217;s like playing poker. It depends on a lot of factors.&#8221;

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Beekeeper said he&#8217;s kept the insects as a hobby since the early 1980s and hasn&#8217;t heard any complaints about them from anyone in the neighborhood.
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The slowing economy has had a varied effect on lottery ticket sales, said Virginia Lottery Executive Director Paula Otto.
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The 46 visitors from Abingdon, England, leave early this morning, but not before commenting on the area&#8217;s friendliness and hospitality.
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Visitors flocked to Historic Jonesborough this weekend for storytelling, and local businesses enjoyed sales.
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North Carolina hasn&#8217;t gone to a Democratic presidential candidate in 32 years.&nbsp; Obama spoke to a capacity crowd in Asheville Sunday.&nbsp; Click here to view video of his entire speech.
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With electric rates set to rise from 15 percent to nearly 40 percent across most of the region, reactions from customers range from uneasiness to outrage.
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When temperatures drop, Joyce Atkins stops using more than half of her modest Abingdon home just to keep utility costs down.
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He thinks Gov. Sarah Palin is a skilled performer, Barack Obama is one of America&#8217;s best political speakers &#8211; ever &#8211; and that O.J. Simpson, at 61, is still a pretty good-looking man.
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