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Job or no job, you have to eat somehow

3 days ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

I’m always amused by people my own age (and older and less old) talking about how the current young generation doesn’t want to work. “Bunch of lazy layabouts,” they say, “don’t want to get out of bed and do an honest days work! Why, when I was their age!”kAm%9:D 2>FD6D >6 3642FD6 ?@?6 @7 FD 92G6 6G6C H2?E65 E@ H@C<] x’> E2=<:?8 23@FE 2 ;@3 J@F 5@?’E H2?E E@ 8@ E@[ 5@?’E H2?E E@ 86E FA 7@C 2?5 H@F=5 BF:E :?
Two former members of law enforcement indicted by grand jury

5 days ago | greenevillesun.com | Michael Thomason

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Two former members of law enforcement indicted by grand jury

6 days ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

A former Sgt. with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and a former Madisonville Police Officer have been charged with official misconduct in two separate cases. Cody Lynn Harrill and Bobby Mack Woods were both indicted by as grand jury after TBI investigations that showed allegations of bringing contraband into the jail and using a city credit card. kAm%96 :?G6DE:82E:@? @7 >:D4@?5F4E 2E E96 ;2:= 3682? :? s646>36C a_aa 2?5 6G6?EF2==J =65 E@ w2CC:== 2?5 E96 DFDA:4:@?
Laundromat quarter machine robbed of $12 in Vonore

6 days ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

His actions netted him eight dollars, but now he faces having a criminal record and jail time. Vonore Police Officer Robert Moses said he went to Vonore Laundromat May 6 on a call of man shaking the quarter machine in an attempt to get money out of it. kAm|@D6D D2:5 H96? 96 8@E E96C6 96 7@F?5 r92D6 y24<D@? :? E96 3FD:?6DD 2?5 2D<65 9:> 23@FE D92<:?8 E96 >249:?6] y24<D@? D2:5 96 5:5?’E <?@H 2?JE9:?8 23@FE :E 2?5 925?’E 366? D92<:?8 2?J >249:?6D]k^AmkAmqFE H96?
Job or no job, you have to eat somehow

6 days ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

I’m always amused by people my own age (and older and less old) talking about how the current young generation doesn’t want to work. “Bunch of lazy layabouts,” they say, “don’t want to get out of bed and do an honest days work! Why, when I was their age!”kAm%9:D 2>FD6D >6 3642FD6 ?@?6 @7 FD 92G6 6G6C H2?E65 E@ H@C<] x’> E2=<:?8 23@FE 2 ;@3 J@F 5@?’E H2?E E@ 8@ E@[ 5@?’E H2?E E@ 86E FA 7@C 2?5 H@F=5 BF:E :?
Two former members of law enforcement indicted by grand jury

1 week ago | citizentribune.com | Michael Thomason

A former sergeant with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department and a former Madisonville police officer have been charged with official misconduct in two separate cases. Cody Lynn Harrill and Bobby Mack Woods were both indicted by a grand jury after Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) inquiries that showed allegations of bringing contraband into the jail by Harrill and using a city credit card for personal uses by Woods.
Two former members of law enforcement indicted by grand jury

1 week ago | news-herald.net | Michael Thomason

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Two former members of law enforcement indicted by grand jury

1 week ago | elkvalleytimes.com | Michael Thomason

A former sergeant with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department and a former Madisonville police officer have been charged with official misconduct in two separate cases. Cody Lynn Harrill and Bobby Mack Woods were both indicted by a grand jury after Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) inquiries that showed allegations of bringing contraband into the jail by Harrill and using a city credit card for personal uses by Woods.
Man takes a computer and weed eaters after he can't find money bags

1 week ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

A Morristown couple were arrested after they allegedly broke into a popular hardware store in Vonore May 3. Vonore Police Detective Cory Fritts said officers responded to a burglary alarm at Sloan’s Hardware on the corner of Highways 411 and 360 and found the glass doors to the store shattered. kAmuC:EED D2:5 96 =@@<65 2E 42>6C2 DFCG6:==2?46 G:56@ 2?5 D2H 2 >2? E9C@H 2 C@4< E9C@F89 E96 8=2DD 2?5 8@ :?E@ E96 DE@C6] uC:EED D2:5 E96 >2? 4@F=5 36 D66?
Man seeks to allegedly get witness to change testimony against him

1 week ago | advocateanddemocrat.com | Michael Thomason

A man facing a weapons charge has been accused of trying to get a woman to change her testimony against him. Monroe County Sheriff’s Investigator Joe Renner said Christopher Kirkland had been stopped for a traffic violation on Nov. 15 of last year and a gun was found in his car. As Kirkland had a felony conviction in his past, he is not allowed to own a gun and a warrant was obtained to search his house. kAm#6??6C D2:5 `e >@C6 8F?D H6C6 7@F?5 :? E96 9@FD6 2?5 z:C<=2?5 H2D :?5:4E65 @?