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How Does Your Hospital Stack Up Against The Competition? Now We Can Tell You.

Thanks to USA Today, you can now compare death rates at area hospitals based on government records. Here's what we found.

Tennessee Comes Up Almost 800 Short in Employee Buyout Offer

The final numbers are in on the state employee buyouts.

Officials have approved 15-hundred and 21 buyouts.

For those employees, this will be their last week on the job.

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House Fire Claims the Life of a 46-Year-Old Pikeville Man

Submitted by WDEF News 12 on May 14, 2008 - 1:04pm. News | Bledsoe County News

A Bledsoe County man died last night when his house caught on fire.

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Bledsoe County Missing Man Found Dead in Car

Submitted by WDEF News 12 on April 22, 2008 - 12:41pm. News | Bledsoe County News

Rhea County and Tennessee Highway Patrol investigators look into the circumstances surrounding a man found dead in his car in Tigues Creek on Dayton Mountain.

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4/15/08 Another Frost and Freeze for Wednesday.

Submitted by Brian Smith on April 15, 2008 - 8:42am. Bledsoe County News

Thanks to Amy Terry for the “wintry” photographs from yesterday afternoon.

Bledsoe County Schools Closed Again By Illness

Submitted by WDEF on March 5, 2008 - 9:24pm. News | Closings / Cancellations | Bledsoe County News

Maybe the second time will be the charm for a local school system.

For the second time in a month... Bledsoe county schools are closing because of illness.

They also closed for the same reason three weeks ago... And have missed other days because of weather.

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Woman Charged with "Doctor Shopping" for Hydrocordone

Submitted by WDEF on March 5, 2008 - 9:10pm. News | Crime | Bledsoe County News

A Bledsoe County woman faces charges for "doctor shopping."

That's the practice of going to multiple doctors to get prescription medicine.

The legislature passed a law saying you have to inform a doctor about seeing other physicians in a 30-day period if controlled substances are involved.

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Fallen Luminary Volunteer Firefighter Laid To Rest In Bledsoe County

Submitted by Joe Legge on December 24, 2007 - 5:51pm. News | Bledsoe County News

Firefighters throughout Bledsoe County and other parts of the region gathered one last time to honor Theresa Maria Lynn. The Luminary-Frostbite Volunteer firefighter died Friday morning while trying to get to an emergency. Today, family and friends laid Lynn to rest.