Defendant’s bond revoked in hit-and-run case
By Staff | Jul 14, 2021
The defendant in a case of a hit-and-run that fatally injured a Suncoast Estates girl in January 2020 had her bond revoked by a judge Tuesday after she was accused of threatening a witness in February.
Courtney Gainey, 25, was charged with tampering with a witness, victim or informant, a third-degree felony, after an eyewitness accused Gainey of threatening him in testimony Tuesday in front of Judge Robert Branning.
According to the deposition of eyewitness Austin Britton, he said, “I was on the phone with Courtney earlier and I was getting threats not to come here, saying that you’re gonna – you got a whole plan for me and everything.”
To coincide with the publication of
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, we talked to some of the contributors of the volume. We asked them what they hope students and teachers would gain from their chapter, and where they hope the field will go in the future. Read on for their responses…
Scott Newstok, Rhodes College
Chapter: How to Think Like Ira Aldridge
What we can learn from the first black Shakespearean to achieve international professional renown? From 1825 until 1867, Aldridge toured throughout Europe. Just before his death, he was on the cusp of a return to his native United States. His cosmopolitan life was marked by triumphs as well as persistently racist responses to his roles. My chapter surveys seven of Ira Aldridge’s strategies for succeeding on the nineteenth-century stage:
When Johnson City police found a man slumped over his steering wheel with his car against a tree, they initially thought it was a crash with injuries.
But the Aug. 26, 2020, call was recently determined to be a drug overdose and the driver, identified as Austin Britton, 22, had slowly veered off the road into the tree.
Police said Tuesday that a Washington County grand jury indicted Micah Bradley, 29, 241 W. Main St., Johnson City, on Jan. 7 on a second-degree murder charge. He was already in jail on an unrelated charge, so the warrant was served on him there.
The first officer on scene, Hannah Farmer, found Britton slumped over his steering wheel with the ignition keys in his lap and immediately pulled him out and began CPR. Britton, however, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Stabbing
Officers arrested a woman Monday after she allegedly stabbed a woman at a Hamilton Street residence.
Annette Harvey, 51, of New Jersey, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, police said in a press release.
The identity of the woman stabbed was not released, but she was transported to the Johnson City Medical Center for treatment.
Officers were dispatched to 825 Hamilton Street on a report of a stabbing around 10:15 p.m. Monday.
Inside the house, it appeared there had been a struggle because furniture and other items were in disarray.
âItems linking Harvey to the incident were discovered inside and outside of the home. Harvey was quickly located by officers of the Bristol, Tennessee Police Department. She was transported to Johnson City and charged with attempted first-degree murder.