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A former chief of the Knox County Sheriff s Office accused of using the agency s drug fund and a county credit card as a piggy bank and on-duty subordinates as a private construction crew is no longer mentally competent enough to stand trial, his attorney says.Attorney Robert Kurtz said in a recent motion that David Henderson, the ex-chief of the Sheriff s Office s narcotics unit, is showing signs of dementia and cannot meanin air max 1 gfully assist in the defense of federal charges filed against him earlier this year. Mr. Henderson was evaluated by an expert neuropsychologist on Jan. 18, 2022, Kurtz said in the motion. Mr. Henderson was evaluated again by the expert neuropsychologist on Sept. 27, 2022. Based on these evaluations as well as other information, the expert has opined ... that Mr. Henderson is not competent to stand trial. Mr. Henderson lacks the capacity to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him, to consult with counsel and to assist in preparing his defense, Kurtz said.U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill McCook put Henderson s trial, which had been set to begin Nov. 8, on hold pending further evaluation of the former narcotics unit chief. The court, therefore, grants Henderson s mot salomon hombre ion for a competency hearing, McCook said in her written order. The court will conduct a hearing to determine his competency to stand trial, and a date for that hearing will be se air force 1 t at a later time. Henderson was indicted in U.S. District Court in Knoxville in Feb Xvni Chattanooga closes homeless camp, citing crime and railroad concerns
By JOELLE TESSLERAP Technology WriterWASHINGTON - A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers.The 3-2 vote Tuesday marks a major victory for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who has spent more than a year trying to craft a compromise.The FCC s three Democrats voted to pass the rules, while the two Republican stanley cup s oppo stanley becher sed them, calling them unnecessary regulation. The new rules are likely to face intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill once Republicans take over the House. Meanwhile, public interest groups decried the regulations as too weak, particularly for wireless systems.Known as net neutrality, the rules prohibit phone and cable companies from favoring or discriminating against Internet content and services, such as those from rivals.The rules require broadband providers to let subscriber stanley becher s access all legal online content, applications and services over their wired networks - including online calling services, Internet video and other Web applications that compete with their core businesses. But the rules give broadband providers flexibility to manage data on their systems to deal with problems such as network congestion and unwanted traffic including spam as long as they publicly disclose their network management practices.The regulations prohibit unreasonable network discrimination - a category that FCC officials say would most likely include services th

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Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Two Bikes Chattanooga founder Mitchell Connell t nike sb dunk alks to riders Oct. 19, 2024, before the start of a community ride in the 14th Street area. A cluster of about 30 cyclists tooled down 14th Street in Highland Park, listening to jazz from a blue trailer speaker attached to the back of a bike.At key intersections Saturday, the cyclists stopped and surveyed the environment around them, discussing how those crossings could be improved as the city plans a new greenway along 14th.Josh Hurt, a Highland Park resident, said lots of people use the 14th Street route -- one block from East Main Street -- to get into downtown Chattanooga. READ MORE: Agritourism or industry Hamilton County considering all opt air max 1 ions for McDonald Farm nike air force I think it s really cool to have a community effort, Hurt said. Thirty people showed up today -- it s like, OK, let s all get together. Talk about it, look at it, think about it. What matters to the people that are going to use it That s a big deal. Straddling a black bike, Elsy Interiano, a transportation review specialist with the city of Chattanooga, described how planned quick-build additions, like plastic bollards and rubber medians, could slow traffic and make it easier for people to walk and bike across busy intersections. I m excited the city is starting to embrace the idea of quick-build, cheap stuff, Dave Lowther, who commutes by bike in Chattanooga, said after the rid Apyj Man shot in leg on Foust Street and other news
An option laid out by Mayor Ro stanley flask n Littlefield to install Sheriff Jim Hammond as head of Chattanoog stanley cup spain a s police department if a contract for current Chief Freeman Cooper is not ratified could backfire, the council s chairman said Monday. I think he had the votes when he said he had the votes, council Chairman Jack Benson said. I don t think he has the votes now. Mr. Benson said Monday he has not heard one person in support of installing the sheriff as the police chief. He said he initially thought there might be some support for it because it would be a move toward consolidation. I ve found absolutely no support for this except from the mayor s office, Mr. Benson said.Mr. Littlefield said last week that if a contract for Chief Cooper is not ratified by the council that he would initiate a contract with stanley mugs Hamilton County Sheriff Hammond to take the job as Chattanooga s top law enforcement officer for $1 a year. The council will vote on Chief Cooper s contract tonight, the day before he is set to retire.Mr. Littlefield on Monday brushed off the comments by Mr. Benson.PDF: A letter to the City Council members from Chattanooga Police Sgt. Craig Joel WHAT S NEXTThe City Council will vote tonight on offering a three-year contract to police Chief Freeman Cooper. The contract calls for Chief Cooper to receive his present salary of $116,822 a year. He also would be able to collect a one-time $240,000 lump sum retirement benefit and a pension of about $80,000 a year. We ll see, he said.

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Jennifer Amacher Jennifer Amacher The Franklin County, Tenn., woman whose son shot and kill mizuno handballschuh ed an 11-year-old classmate last December has been fin salomon xt ed and sentenced to probation and community service.Jennifer Amacher was charged with reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon because she was present at the Estill Springs, Tenn., home when the fatal shooting occurred.Amacher, 39 when she was charged in May, pleaded guilty to three counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment and was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Justin Angel to perform 300 hours of community service, pay $300 in fines plus court costs and serve three years on supervised probation, Assistant District Attorney Steve Blount said Tuesday.She originally was charged with five counts of felony reckless endangerment.On Dec. 11, 2015, five children were at the Amacher home on Honey Lane when the fatal shotgun blast struck Sienna Dusk Owens. No one else was injured.Sienna was still alive when authorities arrived but later died at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester.The boy, now 13, recently was ordered into state custody on the reckle crocs winterstiefel ss homicide case and was ordered to serve an indeterminate sentence in the custody of the state Department of Children s Services, according to the Herald-Chronicle.The boy will be held at one of the state s Youth Development Centers for treatment and rehabilitation.Contact staff writer Ben Benton at b Rgto Two charged after seven Hamilton County inmates show signs of overdose
A man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault and burglary in East Ridge, police say.Selvin Velasquez has been charged with aggravated burglary, sexual battery, forgery and criminal simulation, according to East Ridge police spokesman Erik Hopkins. When confronted by police, Velasquez handed over a Tennessee identification card, but it was fraudulent, Hopkins said, so his age is unclear because police are not sure of his real identity. Arkansas-Ole Miss Live BlogHe is scheduled to be in East Ridge Municipal Court on April 19 at 5 p.m., according to a news release.On Wednesday, East Ridge police responded to a burglary call from 507 S. St. Marks, Hopkins said. When they arrived, the female victim said her intoxicated neighbor had approached her outside her home and asked her several personal questions that made her uncomfortable.She went back inside to her kitchen and, when she turned around, her neighbor was standing there, Hopki stanley thermos ns said. He grabbed her and asked for a kiss and stanley isolierkanne she pushed him away and told him to leave, but he then tried to put his hands down her pants, she told police.The man eventually left and police found him next door at 505 S. St. Marks, where he was taken into custody without incident, Hopkins said.Follow the latest local crime news at Facebook/CrimeReport. stanley mugs insticator-wrapper order: 2; klangoo-wrapper order: 1; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] display: block; div[data-widget-id= rel_3

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Thirteen people have been arrested in a meth lab raid at this home in yeezy Marion County. Thirteen people have been arrested in a meth lab raid at this home in Marion County. Thirteen adults were arrested at a house being used as a meth lab Thursday at 606 Fifth St. in South Pittsburg, Tenn.The adults are being charged with methamphetamine related violations and aggravated child neglect, according to a release from the Marion County Sheriff s Department. In addition to finding chemicals and equipment used to make meth and actual meth powder, sheriff s deputies found two children - 2- and 4-years-old - in the house.Authorities also discovered three other 7-year-old children also lived at the house, but were at school during the bust. The children are now in custody of the Tennessee Department of Children s Services, the release said.The 13 who were arrested are Tina Hood, Jacqueline Hood, Charles David King, Cory King, James Daniel Kilgore, James Anthony Kilgore, Daryl Kilgore, Melinda Miller, Darre air max 1 ll Wingfield, Lisa Ann Russell, Bradley Reynolds, Brandon adidas originals samba Condra and Zach Edwards.The release said the house was across the street from the City of South Pittsburg Ball Park and the people had no regard for the safety of their own kids much less the safety of the kids just trying to enjoy the park. The Tennessee Dangerous Drugs Task Force was called to the scene to dispose of the hazardous chemicals and equipme Jfuc List of Apison storm-related fatalities released
Three businesses were given small business of the year awards by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce today.Southern Hearth and Patio, Metro Services Inc. and Access America were cited for 2010 by the business group.WTCI-TV also was named outstanding nonprofit of the year at the Chamber event that drew about 1,200 people to the Chattanooga Convention Center. The Chamber itself is stanley water bottle a small business with just over 30 employees, said Tom Edd Wilson, the Chamber s chief executive. So I know what it s like to worry about keeping clients, providing benefits and meeting the payroll. See tomorrow s Chattanooga Times Free Press for complete coverage. insticator-wrapper order: 2; klangoo-wrapper order: 1; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] display: block; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-3 ] display: none; div.rc-desktop display: none; div.rc-mobile display: block; @media min-width: 40em insticator-wrapper order stanley mugs : 1; klangoo-wrapper order: 2; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] display: none; div[data-widget-id= stanley cup rel_325-3 ] display: block; div.rc-desktop display: block; div.rc-mobile display: none;

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PDF: Confiscated weapons law A change to a state law that stops law enforcem stanley becher ent from destroying confiscated weapons should be a local decision, one area sheriff says.Sheriff Tim Gobble was responding to changes enacted March 4 by Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who signed a law that deleted the option of allowing weapons confiscated by police to be destroyed. Under the change in the law, weapons can be destroyed only if they re unsafe or inoperable. It s probably one of those laws that went through without thinking about the full consequences, the sheriff said.The option to destroy weapons should be up to stanley tazas local courts and law enforcement, Sheriff Gobble said.Rep. Gerald McCormick, R-Hixson, a prime co-sponsor of the bill, said the legislation stemmed from the requests of gun owners. A lot of gun collectors and gun owners wanted to have the ability to buy the weapons that would have been destroyed , he said.An Associated Press report noted that two weapons used in high-profile shootings at the Pentagon and Las Vegas were once seized in Memphis criminal cases. That might be a reflection on the Memphis Police Department and how they re getting rid of the weapons more than anything else, Rep. McCormick said, adding that those instances stanley cups need a closer look and could require more changes to gun laws.The Chattanooga Police Department confiscated 553 guns last year, and not all were destroyed, police spokeswoman Sgt. Jerri Weary wrote in an e-mail.Lost or stolen weapons were returne

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Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Unjolee Moore makes his adidas campus donna way into Judge Don Poole s courtroom in the Hamilton County-Chattanooga Courts Building on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018 in Chattanooga. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a Chattanooga man s bid for a new trial after the lower court twice denied his petition for a new trial yeezy 350 in a 2010 murder case.Unjolee Moore, now 34, has been serving a life sentence at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center near Nashville since 2013 in connection with the shooting de asics outlets ath of 46-year-old Bernard Hughes.The case has involved allegations of police misconduct, including an allegedly coerced confession and the allegation that a then-Chattanooga police captain, now-retired Assistant Chief Edwin McPherson, told investigators not to collect a cellphone that belonged to his niece.In a hearing before Moore s trial, McPherson testified that he didn t remember telling the investigator not to take the phone.At the time, detectives believed McPherson s niece was responsible for setting up the robbery that led to Hughes death, the Times Free Press reported previously. But investigators never had any proof to charge her, according to the internal affairs report.At Moore s trial, though, prosecutors said that it was Moore s planning that brought him and three others to Hughes home for the robbery.While prosecutors didn t have witnesses or DNA evidence placing Moore at the scene of the Oryx State Rep. Vince Dean to run for Tennessee House instead of Senate
ATLANTA - Tommy Hanson allowed one run in six innings, Dan Uggla and Chipper Jones came through in a four-run seventh, and the streaking Atlanta Braves defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 Friday night.The Braves won for the 13th time in 16 games after an 0-4 start - their worst since 1988.Hanson 3-2 worked around six hits and three walks, his only blemish an RBI single by Garrett Jones in the fourth. Kris Medlen worked the final three innings, earning his first career save. Uggla and Jones drove in two runs apiece in the seventh to break open a 2-1 game. A.J. Burnett 1-1 went six innin stanley cup gs for the Pirates, pitching well but not enough to prevent his eighth loss in nine career decisions at Turner Field. insticator-wrapper order: 2; klangoo-wrapper order: 1; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] display: block; div[data-widget-id= stanley canada rel_325-3 ] display: none; div.rc-desktop display: none; div.rc-mobile display: block; @media min-width: 40em insticator-wrapper order: 1; klangoo-wrapper order: 2; div[data-widget- stanley tazas id= rel_325-4 ] display: none; div[data-widget-id= rel_325-3 ] display: block; div.rc-desktop display: block; div.rc-mobile display: none;

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Lawmakers gather for a special session of the Tennessee General Assembly to take up incentives for Ford to create an electric vehicle manufacturing campus in West Tennessee, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, at the State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Stephanie Amador/The Tennessean via AP A legislative panel has approved temporary rules that guide how Tennessee school districts investigate complaints about classroom discussions of race and gender - adidas campus 00 and the hefty financial penalties that fall on districts that fail to abide by the rules.Emergency rules have been in effect since July 31. They were tweaked again in November, following the passage of legislation barring K-12 educators from teaching certain concepts related to race in the classroom.And while Monday s review of the rules by the legislature s Joint Government Operations Committee was routine, some lawmakers took the opportunity to levy sharp criticisms at the underlying law and the rules crafted by the state s Department of Education.Critical race theory is an academic framework for studying adidas originals damen the persistence of race and racism in shaping the nation s social fabric and institutions, and it is not typically taught in K-12 schools. Lawmakers nevertheless passed a ban on the teaching of certain ideas related to the theory.The law l nike dunk high ays out 14 prohibited concepts in the classroom and gives the state Department of Education the authority to withhold education funding for school district Hsbu Chattanooga: No one injured in Lookout Valley house fire
Davida Caylor Arkansas-Georgia Live BlogA woman who accused a Catoosa County, Ga., assistant principal of assaulting a student has been arrested herself on charges that she lied to police. Davida Caylor made a complaint against Heritage High School Assistant Principal Eric Beagles on Feb. 8 alleging that the school official had assaulted a student during school hours, Sheriff Gary Sisk said in a news release.But after an investigation the Catoosa County Sheriff s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation decided the case was unfounded, Sisk said.When the in stanley termos vestigation was turned over to prosecutors, they decided Caylor should be charged with giving false statements and tampering with evidence. When sheriff s deputies went to Caylor s house on Rolling Hills Drive she refused to be arrested, authorities said. Sisk said she then was charged with obstruction of a police officer and a second count of tampering with evidence.Caylor remains in Catoo stanley tazas sa County Jail awaiting a first appearance hearing gourde stanley . insticator-wrapper {order: 2;} klangoo-wrapper {order: 1;} div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] {display: block;} div[data-widget-id= rel_325-3 ] {display: none;} div.rc-desktop {display: none;} div.rc-mobile {display: block;} @media min-width: 40em { insticator-wrapper {order: 1;} klangoo-wrapper {order: 2;} div[data-widget-id= rel_325-4 ] {display: none;} di

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Row of columns in black and white court tile warrant justice judicial executive adidas samba herren legislation tile building / Getty Images For answers to frequently asked questions about the coronavirus, click here. UPDATE: The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued an order that has suspended all in-person proceedings in all state and local courts in Tennessee from the close of business o yeezy slide n March 13 through March 31. Chattanooga City Court will remain open but will not hear any cases during this time. All cases set during this time will be rescheduled.The City Court Clerk s Office wi adidas samba og ll remain open during regular business hours to answer any questions and to accept payments. Any person who has been cited to Court during these two weeks will be notified of a new court date by the Clerk s Office. Payments are strongly encouraged to be made online, when possible, at chattanooga.gov, or through the mail to City Court Clerk, 600 Market Street, Room 104, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402.Those with any questions can contact the Clerk s Office at 423 643-7541. _______ORIGINAL STORY: For the next several weeks, some local courts and law enforcement agencies are taking extra precautions in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.There have not been any confirmed cases in Hamilton County, Mayor Jim Coppinger said during a news conference Thursday.link to SGT story when posted Two people, though, are being monitored after having traveled to Italy, Cha Ldjo Two more lawsuits filed in connection to fatal Woodmore bus crash
The average plowboy and milkmaid first got access to an English Bible because of a man who gave his life for that cause, a Chattanooga-born theologian says.Dr. Timothy George, founding dean of Beeson stanley cup Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., said the King James Version of the Bible owes so much to William Tyndale, the first person to translate it into English from Hebrew and Greek texts. It was a courageous and brave and gutsy thing to do, he said.Translating the Bible led to M stanley flask r. Tyndale being burned at the stake for being a heretic in the early 1600s.Dr. Ge stanley cup orge will deliver the 28th annual C.S. Lewis Lecture at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Monday. The title of his lecture is The Making of the English Bible. The speaker is very much homegrown, a product of the distinctively local Bible in the Schools program and was an original recipient of the Dora Maclellan Brown Scholarship, lecture planning committee member Henry Henegar said.Dr. George said his work as the general editor of a 28-volume work for InterVarsity Press, The Reformation Commentary of Scripture, and his general interest in Reformation history led to the lecture topic.Mr. Tyndale, he said, tried to get approval in England for the Bible translation, but he was met with nothing but closed doors. Since it was his passion, he eventually had to leave England to finish his work and fled from place to place, Dr. George said.Over time, according to Dr. George, individual leaves

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Paul D. Coffman Jr. Logan Dewayne Lepard A Sequatchie County, Tennessee, man charged in the fatal shooting of a young father in September will face a grand jury on a homicide charge.Officials said the criminal homicide charge against Paul D. Coffman Jr., 21, was sent to the Sequatchie County grand jury on Dec. 12. He s accused in the slaying of Logan Dewayne Lepard, also 21, whose body was found Sept. 8 lying partially in a ditch and in the road in the 5300 block of Henson Gap Road, east of Dunlap.Coffman is represented by the 12th Judicial District Public Defender s Office. The grand jury reports the last week of January and we re waiting to see what the results will be, Public Defender Jeff Harmon said Thursday. He couldn t discuss t samba rose he case further.Twelfth Judicial District Assistant District Attorney Steve Strain said Thursday that the state s witness testifying before the grand jury last week was Sequatchie County Sheriff s Office detective Jody Lockhart.Lockhart testified that Coffman was still at the home when offi nike af cers arrived. Lepard had already been transported to the hospital when the detective got to the scene. Strain said Lockhart testified that Coffman helped officers find the gun he is said to have used, a 9-mm. semi-automatic handgun.According to preliminary hearing tes salomon gtx timony, Lepard and an acquaintance went to the back door of Coffman s house and Coffman told them, I don t do busines Ryqi Wardens punished amid staffing, medication issues at Tennessee women s prison
DAVID NOWAKAssociated Press WriterMOSCOW - Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow s subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 102, officials said.The head of Russia s main security agency said preliminary investigation places the blame on rebels from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya, where separatists have fought Russian forces since the mid-1990s.The first explosion took place just before 8 a.m. at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building tha stanley quencher t houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB s main successor agency.A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later.Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu said the toll was 37 killed and 102 injured, but he did not give a breakdown of casualties at each station, according to Russian news agencies. I heard a bang, turned my head and smoke was everywhere. People ran for the exits screaming, said 24-year-old Alexander Vakulov, who said he was on a train on the platform opposite the targeted train at Park Kultury. I saw a dead person for the first time in my life, said 19-year-old Valentin Popov, who had just arrived at the station from the opposite direction.In a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Security Service head Alexander Bor stanley becher tnikov said body fragment stanley cup s of the two bombers pointed to a Caucasus connection. He did not elaborate.

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Tonya Craft speaks to students at Dalton State College Wednesday evening. A memoir by a former North Georgia kindergarten teacher wrongly accused of molesting small children is scheduled to come out next month.Tonya Craft, who taught at Chickamauga Elementary School, was acquitted in 2010 on charges of molesting three girls, including her daughter. Craft s trial turned Ringgold, Ga., into a national news stage. She appeared on The Today Show and Larry King Live soon after the jury found her not guilty.Craft said after the trial she would dedicate her life to helping the falsely accused, and has since enrolled at the Nashville School of Law. Tonya Craft adidas samba adidas book cover Her book will be available Sept. 1. Barnes Noble at Hamilton Place will host a launch party four days later at 2 p.m.Craft worked on her memoir with Mark Dagostino, a celebrity jour nike sb dunk nalist who has written books with Gavin MacLeod, Hulk Hogan and the former college football player who inspired the film Rudy. The book begins with Craft at her home in May 2008, when she said Catoosa County Detectives Tim Deal and Stephen Keith now a Catoosa County magistrate informed her she had been accused of moles airmaxplus ting children.Craft said she first thought the detectives were talking about an incident a couple of years earlier, when supposedly her daughter and another child were caught touching each other. I ve taken care of that, Craft said she Wmed Dalton State College newspaper ceases printing; goes online-only
Commissioner Jim Coppinger cruised to re-election this year with no primary or gene stanley mugs ral election opposition, and now wants to build consensus on an even larger stage.The former Chattanooga fire chief thinks his experience managing employees and budgets would translate well to the county mayor s job.Coppinger, along with Commissioner Larry Henry and special assistant to stanley cup canada the mayor Mike Carter, want to succeed Ramsey when he leaves the county Jan. 11 to become deputy governor and chief of staff for Gov.-elect Bill Haslam.The county is also accepting other applicants for the job, which will be filled by a vote of Coppinger s fellow county commissioners. Commissioners plan to choose a new mayor on Dec. 27 and are taking applications through Dec. 17.Coppinger, 55, represents County Commission District 3 and is the current commission pro-tem, also called the vice chairman, who along with the chairman acts as one of the commission s two presiding officials. We re poised at a really important time with economic development and job growth and I want to continue along those lines, Coppinger said.Coppinger, a career firefighter now retired, has no outside business interests or other jobs, according to his financial disclosure forms.Coppinger said his greatest accomplishment as a commissioner has been working with others, compromising and helping in vaso stanley the county s push for economic development.He said he has worked with Ramsey, signing contracts for tax breaks that are expected to bring lar