Cracks in the system? Local cases outline sentencing disparity for crack vs. powder cocaine offenses By Robert Moore, Tribune Staff Writer
The unrelated drug prosecutions of Morristown residents Guy Collins and Matau Goins are stark reminders that when federal prosecutors frame their cases, form and substance assume life-changing importance.
The substance in both cases is cocaine, but that’s where the similarity ends.
Collins, 46, on Monday signed a plea agreement indicating he conspired to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine. He faces a possible life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The unrelated drug prosecutions of Morristown residents Guy Collins and Matau Goins are stark reminders that when federal prosecutors frame their cases, form and substance assume life-changing importance....
Motorists were detoured off Highway 25E in the southbound lane after a tractor-trailer overturned off the exit ramp at Andrew Johnson Highway, spilling its load of shredded metal all over the highway Friday...
COLUMBIA — In his first 29 years on the job with the Walters State women’s program, coach Dave Kragel made four trips to the national tournament. After Sunday’s regional championship victory over Volunteer State, Kragel made it four in the last four years.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Darren Collison had 16 points and a career-high 20 assists, and the New Orleans Hornets snapped a four-game losing streak with a 135-131 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.
Veterinarians completed examinations over the weekend of 123 cats seized from a home in Grainger County in what Jordan Crump of the Humane Society of the United States called "one of the worst hoarding situations...
An attempt to expand Hamblen County’s ban on nuisance barking by dogs to 24 hours a day failed to pass the County Commission’s Public Services Committee Monday by a vote to 5-4.
The South Florida pain clinic that provided Morristown residents with thousands of OxyContins and other painkillers was a wildly profitable "pill mill" distributed mountains of drugs, sources indicate.
Hamblen County property owners will receive new assessments on their property in mid-April, Assessor of Property Keith Ely told Hamblen County commissioners Monday.
Howard Shipley is running for the County Commission District 7 seat. A Republican, he hopes to unseat the current commissioner, Dennis Alvis, an independent, who is running for re-election.
