Friday, December 1st

From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here is your news for Friday, December 1st, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz.

In news today…

The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office has recently been notified that some Bradley County residents have received scam phone calls, during which the caller identifies themselves as a Publisher’s Clearing House employee. The caller with a foreign accent will inform the victim they have won a prize, then demands money to be sent for a processing fee and/or will continue to solicit personal information.

The sheriff’s office would like to advise Bradley County residents that the Publisher’s Clearing House will not call demanding money nor ask for your personal information via phone.

If you receive this or other scam phone calls, you can file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on their website: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt

If you have been a victim of this scam, please contact local law-enforcement immediately.

From the Cleveland Daily Banner…

Two significant legal hearings have now been scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the Cleveland city courtroom, and both could potentially mark an end to the issues with which they are involved.

Special Judge Don Ash will preside over a hearing to determine if the motions made by Sheriff Eric Watson to dismiss charges against him made by the state concerning car titles will be sustained.

Watson’s legal counsel, attorney James Logan, said new supplemental pleadings were filed by the state and there is a motion to dismiss the issue. Watson and Logan are hopeful the charges will be dismissed.

Logan said Ash has already delayed the hearing a couple of times at the request of the state.

The case immediately preceding that hearing will also bring an outside judge into Bradley County as well as a prominent Constitutional question.

Roane County Circuit Court Judge Mike Pemberton will preside over a hearing in that same Cleveland city courtroom concerning motions for summary judgment on the case which was filed by Pastor Guinn Green of the Kinser Church of God and Commissioner Howard Thompson in February 2016, contesting the state’s marriage laws.

The two filed their case shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of same-sex marriage.

Logan said the case is against county clerk Donna Simpson, but does not mean they have anything against her. They are trying to have our marriage laws declared unconstitutional under the Tennessee Constitution. Simpson has been required by law to issue same-sex marriage licenses since the nation’s highest court made their decision. That is why she is being sued in her capacity as county clerk.

That hearing is scheduled for 9AM.

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…

Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died Thursday. He was 87.

In his book, “Volunteer Bama Dawg: A TV Guy’s Love Letter to the South,” local TV personality David Carroll writes about the day in in 1958 that Nabors made his television debut. Nabors, then a 26-year-old from Sylacauga, Ala., was working at WRGP-TV (now WRCB) editing commercial clips when a guest failed to show for the live broadcast.

The host had time to fill and in a panic went through the studio asking if anybody had any hidden talents. Nabors announced that he could “sang,” and went on the air with so much as an audition to prove that he could. He would later perform at the Chattanooga Little Theatre before becoming famous on the national stage for his singing and his portrayal of Gomer Pyle “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”

Nabors returned to Chattanooga in 1966 for a show at Memorial Auditorium with Teresa Brewer.

Nabors was an authentic small-town Southern boy, born James Thurston Nabors in Sylacauga, Ala., in 1930, son of a police officer.  After graduating from the University of Alabama, he worked in New York City for a time, and later, in Chattanooga. Nabors moved on to Hollywood with hopes of using his voice. While cutting film at NBC in the daytime, he sang at night at a Santa Monica club.

This has been your local and state news. You can get news anytime by visiting our website, mymix1041.com, powered by Pioneer Credit. From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, this is Jeremy Gault reporting.