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TN high school nurse charged with hosting underage party

KNOXVILLE – A Knox County Schools nurse has been suspended after being charged with allegedly hosting an underage party at her home at which one teenage girl was found passed out with a blood alcohol content nearly three times over the legal limit for an adult, according to arrest warrants.

Rhonda Eich McGill, 54, said she had been asleep when authorities confronted her shortly after midnight Sunday at her South Knox County home, 5617 W. Martin Mill Pike, where several juveniles were found amid numerous bottles of alcohol and marijuana smoke, the warrants state.

“Contact was made with Rhonda McGill, who was exiting a back bedroom,” the warrants read. “Mrs. McGill stated that she had just woken up.

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