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Police charge 11-year-old girl with bomb threat Investigators with the Knoxville Police Department arrested a Bearden Middle School student Tuesday for filing a false report.

The 11-year-old, sixth-grade girl is accused of calling in a bomb threat to Bearden Middle School on Feb. 24, according to KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk.

On the morning of the bomb threat the school was evacuated for more than an hour and a half as bomb dogs searched the school. No bomb was found, DeBusk said.

The girl is being held at the Knox County Juvenile Detention Facility until her hearing, which could come as early as today, DeBusk said.

Webb was indicted in Hamblen County on three counts of prescription drug fraud for acquiring controlled substances by fraud or forgery and three counts of TennCare fraud. The drugs were diazepam (Valium) and two brands of the painkiller oxycodone.

Webb had been arrested in January on indictments from Knox County for three counts of unlawfully and knowingly obtaining the same drugs and was also charged with attempting to obtain medical assistance through fraudulent means, the state said. She awaits trial on those charges. If convicted, she faces up to six years in prison.

To report TennCare fraud, call toll free 800-433-3982 or visit www.tenncarefraud. tennessee.gov.

Hawkins County deputies stumble upon cockfight ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - Deputies chasing a shooting suspect through woods south of Rogersville stumbled on a cockfight over the weekend and made four arrests, authorities said.

"We actually didn't have a call on the cockfight, and I don't understand why, as many people as they had there," Hawkins County Sheriff's Detective Gary Murrell said Monday. "It was just one of those things we didn't know was there and just lucked into."

The deputies were chasing a man Sunday accused of firing a gun into a mobile home. No one was injured in the shooting, and the suspect initially fled in a vehicle and then on foot.

During the pursuit, Murrell and two other officers came upon the cockfight. Four men from the large crowd ran and the officers caught them. Three were charged with failure to stop and the fourth, John Dolphus Smith of Bulls Gap, was charged with possession of cockfighting paraphernalia and two roosters found caged in the bed of his pickup.

Fired Nashville emergency official eligible for job NASHVILLE - The director of Nashville's Office of Emergency Management has been fired over a physical altercation with an employee but can still work for the city in another position if he chooses.

Richard Byrd, 52, is accused of pushing the shoulder and grabbing the arm of Wendy Michelle Burris, 43, while trying to get her to go into his office on Feb. 17 during a work-related dispute.

Byrd was charged with misdemeanor assault after Burris filed a police complaint.

Burris was fired about two weeks after the incident. Officials cited performance issues.

The city's investigators found that Byrd "was unprofessional, offensive and exhibited poor judgment."

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