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DAVIDSON COUNTY — At 83 years old, driving instructor Lee Roy Kearns has no plans to slow down.

It was Christmastime 2013, and Portage Mayor James Snyder was in trouble. His mortgage business had tanked, the IRS was after him for a significant tax debt, and on top of that he had holiday spending to account for. His $62,000 salary as mayor of the small working-class town just wasn’t cutting it. So Snyder showed up unannounced to Great Lakes Peterbilt, the local truck dealership he’d ...

"The battle lines are drawn, and only this Court can break the logjam and restore uniformity on the meaning of an important federal criminal statute," Snyder's team argued.

Federal attorneys don’t think former Portage Mayor James Snyder deserves to have his conviction on a public corruption charge involving garbage truck contracts reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court but Snyder disagrees. That’s according to recent filings in Snyder’s bid to have the nation’s highest court go over his case, which has dragged on for several years after two federal trials and two ...

But federal prosecutors countered Thursday, saying, "there was ample evidence here from which a jury could infer that the $13,000 check (petitioner) received from GLPB was a bribe — not