April 4th, 1968, Reverend Harold Middlebrook was just feet below the Lorraine Motel balcony as his friend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., fell to the ground. Like Dr. King, the Civil Rights movement has consumed Middlebrook's life.
The House Government Operations Committee has recommended passing a
bill to dock welfare payments to parents of children who fail at a
school despite Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's opposition to the measure.
In a press release, the KPD spokesman said the female driver was ejected
from her Acura sedan after it left the roadway, hit a guardrail,
traveled up an embankment and rolled over.
Rocky Top Sports World is currently under construction in Gatlinburg.
It will open next June, and will be home to 80 acres of sports fields
for a host of tournaments.
A suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed a soldier with Oak Ridge ties and a U.S. diplomat over the weekend also injured a University of Tennessee graduate.
