Here is your Cleveland, Tenn. | Bradley County, Tenn. news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: In news today… On Sunday afternoon sh
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In news today…
On Sunday afternoon shortly after 12:30PM, a semi truck heading southbound on I-75 ran off the interstate at Paul Huff Parkway, exit 27. The semi truck proceeded to crash into two vehicles, and ultimately, into a power pole, before coming to a stop.
Authorities report the driver of the semi truck is deceased. The occupants of the other two vehicles involved have only minor injuries.
Reports indicate the crash resulted in a brief disruption of electric utilities in the north end of town, with extended outages for customers in the area of the crash. Cleveland Utilities’ outage tracker indicated over 800 customers affected at one point, down to just over 50 customers affected as of news time. As of news time, Cleveland Utilities had notified Mix 104-1 News that customers in the immediate area of the crash should expect to have their service restored by this morning.
Sgt. Evie West, Public Information Officer with the Cleveland Police Department, provided the following statement regarding the incident:
A Tennessee man has been convicted in the 2001 death of a 15-month old boy.
After a week-long trial, Christopher Lee Goodwin was found guilty Friday of first-degree felony murder stemming from aggravated child neglect in the death of Jeffry Kelton Skaggs, WTVF-TV reported.
Goodwin, 49, faces an automatic sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole, District Attorney General Brent Cooper said.
Investigators said Goodwin, who was the boyfriend of the child’s mother, was alone with the child when he suffered a fatal blow to the head in January 2001.
The child’s death was initally ruled an accident, but the autopsy findings were questioned by experts. The medical examiner at the time, Dr. Charles Harlan, theorized that the toddler fell while climbing on a chest and hit his head on a bed rail.
Harlan later lost his medical license. Cooper reopened the cold case after his election in 2014 and worked to change state law to give him more tools to investigate, the television station reported.
Goodwin, of Maury County, was indicted on murder charges in 2019, years after an investigation by WTVF Channel 5 raised questions about the death.
From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
Allen Mincey reports: If everything goes as planned, the Tennessee State Veterans Home located in Bradley County could be completed by late March or early April.
The facility, located off Westland Drive S.W., is designed to house 108 beds.
Scott Orsburn, project manager for the Christman Company, which is coordinating the construction of the facility, told members of the Southeast Tennessee Veterans Home Council that work is progressing on schedule, and is looking at the spring completion date for the construction.
The time frame for the construction to be completed has always been in the spring of 2022, but there have been concerns about building materials and weather conditions. Orsburn said materials have been an issue, but not one that has caused any delay.
