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Mayfield's Dairy Cuts Jobs in Distribution System to Fight Rising Price of Milk

Submitted by WDEF on September 3, 2008 - 7:52pm. | |

Mayfield Dairy in Athens is eliminating some jobs to fight the rising costs of milk production.

The company is cutting about a hundred workers from its distribution centers.

But the production plants won't be affected.


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Ant Infestation Closes Athens Park

Submitted by Jason Law on August 28, 2008 - 5:09pm. |

ggggggggggggMore than fifty fire ant hills spring up over night on the soccer fields of the Athens Regional Park.

Ant Invasion

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

Submitted by Collins Parker on August 25, 2008 - 1:01pm. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Thanks to USA Today, you can now compare death rates at area hospitals based on government records.  Here's what we found.
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Athens Police Identify Traffic Crash Victim

Submitted by WDEF News 12 on August 20, 2008 - 12:30pm. |
    An Athens man died early Wednesday in a one car crash on State Road 30.
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Police Identify Body As Man Who Ran From Wreck Months Ago

Submitted by WDEF on August 13, 2008 - 7:24pm. |

In McMinn County.. Investigators have identified a body found by a farmer in June.

Detectives have identified the man as Lester Ellison.

They've been searching for him for months.

They say Ellison ran from police after crashing his car into a tree.


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Tennessee Comes Up Almost 800 Short in Employee Buyout Offer

Submitted by WDEF on August 11, 2008 - 6:59pm. | | | | | | | | | | |

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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Court Upholds Throwing Out Child Rape Confession by Delashmitt

Submitted by WDEF on August 11, 2008 - 6:42pm. | |

An appeals court upholds a ruling throwing out a confession in a brutal child abuse case.

Mitchell Delashmitt admitted to raping and murdering his 14-month old daughter five years ago in McMinn County.

But the courts ruled that police may have coerced that confession.


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Troopers Charge McMinn Driver in Crash That Kills Two Teens

Submitted by WDEF on July 28, 2008 - 7:16pm. | |

Tennessee troopers have charged the driver of a pickup truck with vehicular homicide after a deadly crash Sunday in McMinn County.

It happened on Highway 3-0-5 at three in the morning.

Troopers say 29-year-old William Ottman was driving under the influence of alcohol and had marijuana in his possession when his pickup crossed the center line.


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