Scheduling error causes hearing delay for Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol breach
New hearing date set Aug. 10
New hearing date set Aug. 10
The state is seeking the death penalty against a pair of defendants charged in the Sept. 25, 2021, slaying of four people in McMinn County, Tennessee, in a dispute over a 10-month-old child, and the trial has been set for late 2023 or early 2024.
An Athens, Tennessee, man has been booked on a rape charge stemming from allegations he picked up and carried a child into a bathroom at a local city park and sexually assaulted the child.

Joseph Lino "Jose" Padilla, the Cleveland, Tennessee, man facing 12 counts in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach at the U.S. Capitol, is scheduled for a hearing Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court for a report on the status of his case stemming from what federal prosecutors contend was a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.
The father-in-law of the incumbent Bledsoe County road supervisor is charged with aiming a rifle at the current Bledsoe County mayor and calling him "a liar" and an "S.O.B.," according to a court affidavit.

DuBose finances did not rebound as pandemic waned
A lane shift on State Route 60 for work to construct a new entrance for Cleveland Middle School will remain for several months after some traffic is moved onto a newly-built traffic lane to the east in the $54 million project to expand the roadway to five lanes to be competed by August 2025.
Preliminary hearing set June 15
A 19-year-old Rhea County woman's body was recovered from Watts Bar Lake on Monday night, one of two drownings in Tennessee over the Memorial Day weekend holiday.
Crews busy on new Candies Creek bridge, relocation of utilities