Regional

By AP

Knoxville – The legal problems for members of the University of
Tennessee football team are continuing. A Knox County
judge has sent the felony assault case against Defensive
Tackle Tony McDaniel to a grand jury. Judge Chuck Cerny
turned aside a defense request that the charge be reduced
to a misdemeanor assault.

By AP/Dan Modlin

Paducah, KY/ Frankfort, KY – The State Senator from Western Kentucky who quit the
Republican Party over a disputed state Senate race is
losing his committee Chairmanship. Senator Bob Leeper
of Paducah has been replaced as Co-Chair of the
Senate Capital Construction and Oversight Committee.
Leeper is also facing the loss of his Vice-Chairmanship
of the Transportation Committee.

By AP/Dan Modlin

Fort Bragg, NC – Fifteen Jurors at the Military trial of Sergeant Hasan Akbar
have heard that the accused suffered from mental illness
long before he entered the service. Defense Attorney
Dan Brookhart told the Court-martial jury that Akbar
couldn't have planned a grenade and rifle attack against
his fellow members of the 101st Airborne.

By AP

By WKYU-FM