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Representative JoAnne Favors speaks during the National Health Center Week celebration Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, at the Dodson Avenue Community Health Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. Erlanger kicked off a five-day cele
mizuno de bration of National Health Center Week on Monday. Yusuf Hakeem, an NAACP executive board member, leaves the County Commission assembly room after the Commission voted in favor of keeping the bust of Confederate Lt. Gen. A.P. Stewart in front of the courthouse at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Wednesday, Oct. 4, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Retiring state Rep. JoAnne Favors has endorsed Yusuf Hakeem as her successor, she said in a news release Monday.Hakeem is among six candidates - five Democrats and one Republican - seeking the post in the Aug. 2 primaries. Hakeem s campaign said in the release Favors made her endorsement at his campaign kickoff over the weekend. Yusuf Hakeem is the right person for the job, Favors said in the release. He has years of experience in public service, and w
adidas originals ould not face a learning curve as a first time elected official. He is prepared for the work now. Hakeem has spend decades in public life on the former Chattanooga school board and the city council, as well as his service on the state Board of Probation and Parole.Hakeem said in the release that depth of experience will be useful when Tennessee political districts are redrawn after the 202
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Kenardo Curry Follow @SportsChatt A motion was denied Thursday to avoid a trial for former Chattanooga Neighborhood Services Director Kenardo Curry, charged in a 19-count indictment that includes 17 counts of the
stanley website ft.Called pretrial diversion, the motion would avoid a trial or even permanent criminal charges but not require a guilty plea from Curry, who also faces one count of official
stanley quencher misconduct and one count of fraudulent use of a credit card after a 2004 internal audit found questionable charges to city credit cards used by Cu
stanley canada rry.Hamilton County Assistant District Attorney Charlie Minor would not accept the pretrial diversion request; Curry s next court date is Sept. 6.Curry s lawyer, Dan Ripper, filed the diversion request in April, asking that the prosecutor consider Curry s lack of a criminal record and longtime ties to the community.Minor wrote in his response that Curry took no responsibility for the theft, fraud and official misconduct charges leveled against him between 2006 and 2007, two years after the audit found the discrepancies. Curry was the ringleader in a departmentwide conspiracy to defraud Chattanooga residents, Minor wrote. In essence Curry did the exact opposite of what he was hired to do. An investigation revealed Curry spent $25,000 of city money on four pairs of earrings, electronic recording equipment, digital cameras, a DVD player, a TV, two airplane tickets and painting and heating and air conditioning work on the Church of God of Prophec