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NEWPORT (AP)-The cockfighting pit at the heart of a six-year federal investigation into organized crime and public corrpution in Cocke County has sold at auction for $68,882.

NEWPORT (AP)-The cockfighting pit at the heart of a six-year federal investigation into organized crime and public corrpution in Cocke County has sold at auction for $68,882.

GREENEVILLE-Two Newport residents who were indicted in 2006 on drug conspiracy and other charges were arraigned in U.S. District Court on Thursday morning.

WASHINGTON (AP)-The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq. In its annual survey of human rights practices, the State Department cited progress in some countries but stressed a series of ...

WASHINGTON (AP)-The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq. In its annual survey of human rights practices, the State Department cited progress in some countries but stressed a series of ...

After a Cocke County school official appeared in federal court recently, as a character witness, he said that his reason for doing so has been misinterpreted.

WASHINGTON (AP)-Robert Gates, the White House choice to be the next defense secretary, conceded Tuesday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and warned that if that country is not stabilized in the next year or two it could lead to a "regional conflagration."

GREENEVILLE-Former Cocke County Chief Deputy Sheriff Patrick A. Taylor was sentenced here Tuesday to 24 months in federal prison.