2012: The BUZZ Takes A Quick Look Back - Monroe County ...
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December 31, <strong>2012</strong> Page 13 - <strong>The</strong> <strong>BUZZ</strong><br />
charged Jason Paul Baker<br />
with the stabbing murder<br />
of well-known Madisonville<br />
bondsman and<br />
Riceville resident Dennis<br />
Patterson of Lois Bail<br />
Bonds.<br />
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Tellico Plains<br />
FRAMED<br />
& LOG HOMES<br />
As August became September,<br />
a Tellico Plains<br />
man accused of negligent<br />
homicide went to trail; a<br />
jury of 12 found Danny<br />
Sean Adams guilty of only<br />
misdemeanor assault in<br />
CONCRETE<br />
Pools - Basements<br />
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the shooting death of Belltown’s<br />
Vince Cole in November<br />
2009.<br />
September marked the<br />
retirement of Marine<br />
Frankie Watson’s football<br />
jersey at Sequoyah High<br />
Roofing<br />
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commissioners approved a<br />
<strong>2012</strong>-13 budget of $74 million<br />
for the fiscal year; and<br />
Bob Lovingood became<br />
the school board’s new<br />
chairman, succeeding<br />
Larry Stein of Sweetwater.<br />
Another violent death<br />
took place in September<br />
as Madisonville’s Leon<br />
McKinley Bell was<br />
charged in the stabbing of<br />
Terrance “Little Man”<br />
Davis, following a weekend<br />
altercation between<br />
the two men. Madisonville<br />
police detectives charged<br />
Bell with second-degree<br />
murder.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town of Sweetwater<br />
received a $500,000<br />
state grant for its “train<br />
station” project as Sweetwater<br />
resident Charles<br />
Edger Ledford entered a<br />
guilty plea in criminal<br />
court to seven child sex<br />
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charges incurred earlier in<br />
the year. In December,<br />
Ledford would be sentenced<br />
to 84 years in<br />
prison, but he tried to disrupt<br />
the court by cutting<br />
his wrist with a hidden<br />
razor blade. After all was<br />
said and done, his effective<br />
sentence came to 56 years.<br />
Sweetwater held its second<br />
Muscadine Festival<br />
with the beginning of October<br />
and the town received<br />
another money gift,<br />
this one a $377,600 Tennessee<br />
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