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Welcome to May of 1994! I was almost 21 years old at that time. How old were you?

After years of effort, ice rink dreams may be coming true for Chaffee County. Ice Rink for Chaffee County, a local nonprofit focused on establishing recreational ice space for Salida

County Engineer Tim Bray said he expects rights of way along the northern half to be ready for platting by next month.

County Engineer Tim Bray said he expects rights of way along the northern half to be ready for platting by next month.

The Victimization of Velma Tharpe and Paul Garrett A decade after Garrett completed a prison sentence for Tharpe’s killing, another man is charged with the murder Tweet Share In late 2004, a little more than a year after a Nashville man named Paul Garrett was sent to prison for the killing of a sex worker named Velma Tharpe, police and prosecutors received a piece of information that should have set off alarms. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had run a...

Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) doesn’t seem to think it’s a criminal offense that a murderer harasses a victim of their crime from their prison system. Despite a Federal judge ruling that there is sufficient evidence for the murderer to face stalking charges, the prison system announced on Tuesday that they are still not willing to seriously review this case.  In 2009, a man who was stalking me murdered my husband, Ben, in front of me in the middle of a busy restaurant in Nashvi...