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Wife convicted in preacher’s death - Yahoo! News

I’m happy it was voluntary manslaughter versus 1st degree murder, but still, it is a horrible mess. 

My in-laws have scanners and we just had another derailment here in Sweetwater. Its just the engine and a couple of cars, just below the bridge on Hwy 322 and I doubt there will be any evacuations.

Edit:

There was a brake failure in a line of engines parked on a siderail that caused the whole thing to roll towards the main rail.  The switching system made the first engine come off the rails, rather than having the engines go on the main rail and cause an even bigger mess.

A train derailed near Sweetwater this morning around 3 AM. Here in Monroe County, a lot of people live close to the railroad, so whenever something like this happens, its a big mess. Quite a few people had to be evacuated to Sweetwater High School and they may not go back home till tommorrow, depending on if they get the mess cleaned up in time. For additional info:

Monroe County Advocate Democrat

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Update: WVLT used Google Maps to show where the wreck occurred during their coverage of the wreck. Really neat, I think. (I live close to the area but wasn't evacuated since I'm only about 5 miles or so away from the area)

ABC News: One Dead, 2 Hurt in Tenn. School Shooting

Another school shooting, rather close to me. Most likely, the Knoxville News Sentinel will have the shooting on its front page in the morning and more people will be calling for either banning of violent video games, guns or more metal detectors at school. School shouldn't be that way with armed guards and metal detectors almost like a prison in itself. When I was a freshman, I attended high school in Alamogordo, NM about 2 hours from the border. In a 2000 student school, there were 18 gangs, all with different colors and codes. Yet the most serious thing that happened was when they would have fights across the street in a vacant lot. Of course it may have changed since then. Sophomore year brought me to Monroe County and it was more about drinking and pot and sex than guns.

Banning guns or installing metal detectors or the latest fad, blaming violent video games isn't going to work. The parents need to take more responsibility for raising their kids rather than expecting the schools to do it for them. The schools should concentrate on educating the kids so they can have better jobs. Guns, that is a sticky wicket. Guns are useful for hunting and defending oneself, but what does one have to defend against at school?

Adults, that is responsible adults, should have the right to bear arms, yet you don't need to carry them in public unless you are on your way to the hunting range. My point is that guns are tools, and dangerous tools and should be treated as so, rather than a political talking point to garner votes.

Video games aren't the cause of shooting sprees. They may be a factor, but if a kid thinks that one can just shoot a person like in a video game and there won't be consequences needs a reality check as real life isn't a game where you can hit the reset button or reload a saved game. They are just bits and bytes with pretty pictures.

NA dnow, an assistant principal is dead and two others are injured, all because a kid was stupid enough to bring a gun and shoot somebody for whatever reason.

Appalachia Alumni Association: SKB, R.I.P. Archives

V. sad that somebody would have a hissy fit over comments and now ther is one less blogger in Tennessee. I've always enjoyed Metro Pulse and just started reading SKB last year. I remember vaguely that there was a news story about him and Mr. Reynolds of Instapundit a few years back on Channel 10 in Knoxville.

Tis a shame, I say and SKB shall be missed.