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Election 2006
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| Legal News |
| Ben Jones Chapter of National Bar Association elects new officers |
| New officers for the Ben Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association are Gina Higgins, president; Elbert Jefferson, vice president (president-elect);
Van Turner, treasurer; Danese Blankenship, recording secretary; Telesa Taylor, corresponding secretary; and
Jerome Payne, parliamentarian. The board of directors is Florence Johnson Raines, Venita M. Martin, Dedrick Brittenum, Damon Griffin, LaTrena Davis Ingram, Viola Johnson, Harrison McIver and the Hon. Loyce Lambert Ryan.
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| State to consider revoking Ford's insurance license |
| Former Tennessee senator John Ford, already embroiled in the state's largest public corruption case, will have to answer administrative charges regarding his insurance license. The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance will hold a hearing April 19 to consider the matter, according to WREG-TV Memphis. |
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| Joe Hoffer, off the mat and out of the courtroom |
| Cleveland attorney Joe Hoffer not only fights in the courtroom, he is also a 7th degree black belt in Japanese Jujitsu, and a second-degree purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Read the profile of this former assistant district attorney in the |
Bradley News Weekly
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| FBI reviewing 1946 Georgia lynching |
| Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples, the FBI is taking another look at the case. The agency is reviewing the file to ascertain whether new technology or techniques could enhance the prior investigation. Civil rights advocates call the case the nation's last unsolved public lynching. Read more in the |
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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| Election 2006 |
| Three vie for DA's office |
| When incumbent District Attorney General Jerry Estes announced in February that he would not seek re-election, it guaranteed a new prosecutor would be running the district attorney's office for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. Two Democrats and one Republican have qualified to run in the May 2 party primaries for the 10th Judicial District. Read about the race on |
Monroe County Online
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| Carroll County candidates |
| The deadline for filing petitions for the Aug. 1 general election is past, and the full list of candidates has been released by the Carroll County Election Commission. See the names in the |
Carroll County News-Leader
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| Fayette County candidates |
| 71 candidates have filed for 30 county offices. The Fayette County Review has the complete list. |
View it here
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| Lake County candidates |
| The ballot is set for the August 3 General Election in Lake County and will be highlighted by races for general sessions judge, county mayor and sheriff plus a scramble for the 12- county commission seats, according to the |
Lake County Banner
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| Robertson County candidates |
| The Robertson County Times has the list of those qualifying for August's election. |
View the candidates here
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