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Friend: Boy's image 'all for show' By JAMIE SATTERFIELD, satterfield@knews.com November 10, 2005 JACKSBORO, Tenn. - He looked like a stone-cold killer, bloody, handcuffed and smirking. But Ashley Nance is convinced it was all an act, one she's seen many times from this once-pudgy 15-year-old boy who, she says, got a kick out of looking bad. --snip-- Bartley is accused in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at Campbell County Comprehensive High School in Jacksboro that left Assistant Principal Ken Bruce dead and two others - Principal Gary Seale and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce - wounded. The teenager sits now in a...

AMA may support broad public smoking ban Bruce Japsen Published November 3, 2005 Amid increased scrutiny of smoking in restaurants and bars, the American Medical Association is considering backing federal legislation that would prohibit public smoking in a variety of businesses. The largest U.S. doctors group, representing a quarter-million physicians, is being asked by members to put its lobbying clout behind such federal legislation. --snip--

NASHVILLE - The Legislature's Black Caucus has not existed as a nonprofit corporation for 20 years, raising an array of questions that the organization's chairman declined to answer Wednesday. Records at the secretary of state's office show the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators had its corporate charter revoked in 1985 for failure to file required reports. A document to re-establish the caucus as a legal entity was filed Tuesday, listing Allyson Sneed, executive secretary to caucus Chairman Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, as the incorporator. "The caucus has been operating as a nonprofit. They are a nonprofit organization," said Sneed. "We...

************************* Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children AP Sept. 13, 2005 ************************* Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children Tue Sep 13, 6:36 PM ET The Dutch government plans to open an electronic file on every child at birth as a tool to spot and protect the troubled kids of the future. Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, all citizens will be tracked from cradle to grave in a single database — including health, education, family and police records — the health ministry said Tuesday. As a privacy safeguard, no single person or agency will be able to access all contents...