TN News Digest: 02-25-10
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| 02/25/10 HARTFORD, Conn.----With more than 6,000 deaths nationally due to distracted driving, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association , The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and WFSB Channel 3 have joined forces to launch I-PROMISE, an educational campaign to warn Connecticut drivers of all ages of the dangers of driving while distracted and change the way they think and act in the car. 02/25/10 HARTFORD, Conn.----With more than 6,000 deaths nationally due to distracted driving, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association , The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and WFSB Channel 3 have joined forces to launch I-PROMISE, an educational campaign to warn Connecticut drivers of all ages of the dangers of driving while distracted and change the way they think and act in the car. 02/25/10 HARTFORD, Conn.----With more than 6,000 deaths nationally due to distracted driving, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association , The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and WFSB Channel 3 have joined forces to launch I-PROMISE, an educational campaign to warn Connecticut drivers of all ages of the dangers of driving while distracted and change the way they think and act in the car. 02/25/10 Woman struck by car, killed in N. KnoxvilleA police spokesman Thursday said no charges are expected in an accident that killed a 55-year-old woman walking along a North Knoxville road Wednesday night.Dorcas E. Cook of Knoxville was killed in the 10:42 p.m. accident on Callahan Drive at the intersection with Wilbanks Road.Cook was struck by a Ford Escort driven by Phillip A. Conley, 18, of ... 02/25/10 LAWRENCEBURG, TN (WAFF) - A Lawrenceburg home is destroyed after a blaze broke out around 7:00 a.m. Thursday morning on Deller Street. Members of the Lawrenceburg, Ethridge, and New Prospect Fire Departments worked to extinguish the fire for several hours. 02/25/10 A single-vehicle accident has claimed the life of a young Dresden man. Mark Jonathan West, 33, of Dresden was traveling south on Hwy. 22 near the North Lindell Street intersection in Martin around 3 p.m. Saturday when his GMC Yukon struck a guardrail and overturned. 02/25/10 Clifton Smith and Kelly Martin, both U.S. Marshal task force officers, drove around Clarksville in a black, ordinary-looking truck Tuesday, but the job they were doing was not ordinary. 02/25/10 Two Tennessee Army National Guard soldiers with Louisville's 1/230th Air Cavalry died Sunday in a helicopter accident in Iraq, military officials announced Tuesday. 02/25/10 When Massive Attack last toured North America, a typical bit of stage patter from crew leader 3D went like this: "Everyone OK out there? Well, that's good, because this next one's about my homicidal ex-girlfriend's mum who's a crackhead." A Massive Attack live show isn 't exactly the party of the century. But if you're a fan of the Bristol trip-hop pioneers' dread-inducing creep-groove, you owe ... 02/25/10 Stan Crawley, current sports writer for Chattanoogan.com and past award winner for The Chattanooga Times, two-time state wrestling champion Lynn Goss of East Ridge, Middle Tennessee State football great Mike Moore and ex-Provident softball star Sheila Cox headline the list of 19 inductees for the class of 2010 to be presented at the annual Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame banquet Monday ... 02/25/10 Source: IPS The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. 02/25/10 by Lester R. Brown WASHINGTON - The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. Initially led by environmental groups, both national and local, it has since been joined by prominent national political leaders and many state governors. The principal reason for opposing coal plants is that they ... |
