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Here is today's news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: From the Cleveland Daily Banner… Tim Siniard reports:  Progress, and more p

Here is today’s news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland:

From the Cleveland Daily Banner…

Tim Siniard reports:  Progress, and more progress, dominated Cleveland Mayor Kevin Brooks’ State of the City address delivered Thursday: among the highlights were commercial and residential growth and paying down city debt while managing economic growth. 

A self-described cheerleader for the city, Brooks, who is known for crooning impromptu versions of Frank Sinatra’s “The Best is Yet to Come,” listed the achievements the city has tallied during the past year, while promising there will be “more to come in 2020.”

From NewsChannel 9…

Police in Cleveland say a driver was killed after a single car crash in Cleveland Thursday morning.

The crash happened just before 8:30 a.m. at the 2800 block of Peerless Road NW in Cleveland, just out side of the Bradley County Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.

Cleveland Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Evie West says 73-year-old Pamela Wheeler was pronounced dead on the scene.

From WRCB Channel 3…

The driver of a semi-truck has died after a Norfolk Southern train collided with his tractor-trailer in Soddy Daisy on Thursday morning.

People who live near the railroad crossing that is close to the intersection of Hixson Street and Daisy Dallas Drive say they heard the horrifying sound of the crash.

One area resident said you could tell by the sound of the crash that the train had hit something else.

Lt. John Harmon with the Tennessee Highway Patrol tells Channel 3 that ‘something’ was a tractor-trailer investigators say was stalled on the tracks.

Neighbors watched Thursday as hazmat crews spent the morning cleaning up what was left behind and repairing damage.

The impact of that Norfolk Southern train left the cab of the semi and trailer on opposite sides of the crossing.

The name of the truck driver, an employee of Carder and Evans Trucking in Dayton, has not been released. Authorities are working to contact his family.