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A HOMEOWNER has been ordered to leave the house where he was caring for his 92-year-old mother to allow his estranged wife to move back in. Angus and Barbara Ann Fraser are fighting a legal battle over the home in the Lochaber village of Caol. Mrs Fraser, 61, left the house the couple shared with her mother-in-law Elizabeth nine weeks ago when the pair separated, but then began a legaADVERTISEMENT l move at Fort William Sheriff Court to return to live there. Sheriff Douglas Small has granted an interim exclusion order against Mr Fraser, 54, banning him from the house...

He Can't Do That, Can He? Oct 11, 2006 - "I'm not lining his pockets with anything but dust," says resident Carol Cockerham. Carol and Frank Cockerham say they're not paying a toll to use Goings Road. "We've had no problem, 'til he come along," Frank says. The man who bought Goings Road at Ludwig Road from a tax auction... sent residents a letter claiming the drive is private property... and may be enclosed with a chain link fence. He says he's going to charge the residents $50 a month -- per vehicle -- to use the street. He also...

The "supermajority" issue is hardly the no-brainer some people make it out to be. So be wary of cheering along the current effort in Olympia to do away with the decades-old, constitutional voting provision for school levies. The no-brainer crowd crows that it is undemocratic to require a 60-percent passage rate for school money measures when politicians typically are elected to office with just more than 50 percent of the vote. And while it sounds well and good to say that the majority should always rule in any given election, the reality is, the majority rarely rules, given low voter...

EAST TENNESSEE……. September 5, 2003   It is a given, “ A man’s house is his Castle” . You own the property, have a deed and can pretty much decide what happens within the boundaries. Some may argue that the deed is only a permit from the government to whom you pay rent in the form of taxes. But the truth is, there are others who think they own your property and expend lots of time and energy defending it from the aggression.  I have a fairly typical house on a typical suburban lot. It is occupied by myself and my...