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Tennessee mails out buyout offers

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Posted on June 17, 2008 - 8:50pm at Vivian Wilhoite District 29
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By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • June 17, 2008

State workers will begin checking mailboxes after buyout packets went out Monday to about 12,000 employees, an effort to trim about 2,000 positions and cut $64 million from next year's budget.

Ohio Must Change Lethal Injection Drugs

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Posted on June 11, 2008 - 12:42pm at tcask
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Longest Serving Tennessee Death Row Inmate Dies

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Posted on June 10, 2008 - 11:22am at tcask
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We received word yesterday from the Tennessee Department of Correction that Richard Austin, the state's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died at DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville on Sunday. Austin was sentenced to death in 1978 after a conviction in Shelby County of accessory before the fact to murder.

"...state's oldest and longest serving death row inmate has died of natural causes."

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Posted on June 10, 2008 - 6:06am at Stone Soup Station
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The best "death penalty" execution of all....
Tennessee's oldest death row inmate dies

ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 9, 2008

Bredesen Got The Hint

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Posted on May 13, 2008 - 11:24am at Nashville21
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As thousands of Tennesseans cut back on spending the past few months to teach Gov.

Gus and CCA Are So Not OK

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Posted on April 25, 2008 - 10:56am at Pith In The Wind
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Computer security expert hired as laptop case broadens

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Posted on January 30, 2008 - 9:16am at Vivian Wilhoite District 29
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By JANELL ROSS • Staff Writer (Tennessean)• January 30, 2008

On the same day that Metro police made a third arrest in the theft of Davidson County Election Commission laptops, Mayor Karl Dean announced a new hire: a computer security specialist.

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