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As forecasted by many several years ago, Rhea County is staggering with tremendous job losses. Last week La-Z-Boy announced it was laying off an additional 240 workers and reducing its employee base company-wide by 10 percent. Several other Rhea County manufacturers have also reduced their workforces in recent months. Public officials have been blamed for the apparent neglect of this whirlwind of jobs being lost. As many folks have said, it sure seems that so long as there is tax money to be collected then public officials really do not care as long as they get their cushy taxpayer provided paycheck. "Mayor Bob Vincent may laugh at you now and try to sweep up every dollar he can from you to benifit himself and his family and friends but he better enjoy it while he can", said Chester Maxwell, a former Dayton resident that moved to Cleveland in search of a new reporter job. "Elections are next year and if I have to I will personally expose the man for what he is and run for mayor myself", said Maxwell.

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Against the advice of Dayton City Attorney Susan Arnold, the Dayton City Council approved on Monday a resolution to pay the health insurance premiums on individual, private medical insurance for council members ...

The city of Dayton is taking steps to keep its budget in the black. It decided on a hiring freeze and to not replace vacant jobs.

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Dayton Police are searching for a Hispanic man who allegedly raped a 6-year-old girl on Sunday, Aug.

A Dayton man is accused of robbing and attempting to murder his brother on May 3. Rocael Rafael Sanchez, 24, of Dayton Mountain Highway, was arrested on Oct.

Two men died Friday night following a shooting incident that took place in the Crab Orchard area of Cumberland County.

A Spring City man is free on bond after Rhea County Sheriff's officials charged him with allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl early this year.

A 20-year-old man who confessed May 28 to sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy earlier in the day was indicted by the Rhea County Grand Jury Monday, arrested and jailed.

The man who was accused in December of molesting the 16-year-old baby-sitter of his children, pleaded guilty to charges of sexual battery last month in Rhea County Circuit Court, according to sheriff's ...

A Dayton man was indicted by the Rhea County Grand Jury last week on charges of raping his 16-year-old daughter.

A Bledsoe County man was indicted by the Rhea County Grand Jury on Oct. 6 on charges of aggravated sexual battery involving a 9-year-old Rhea County boy.

The number of convicted sex offenders living in Rhea County is on the rise, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Sexual Offender Registry website.

Jonathan Eugene Loper, 20, of Dayton, was arrested Monday morning and charged with seven counts of aggravated sexual battery of a child.

Rhea County sheriff's deputies have arrested three local men in connection with unrelated sex crime cases involving children.

Jonathan Eugene Loper, 21, of Dayton, pleaded guilty Oct. 15 to one count of attempted aggravated sexual battery in connection with a series of sexual assaults last summer against a 9-year-old boy.

There were some scary creatures at the Rhea County Courthouse General Sessions Clerk’s office on Halloween

A head-on collision Saturday night involving two vehicles on Highway 60 in Bradley County left 12 people injured, including a nine-year-old Graysville boy who is still in ICU at Erlanger Hospital in ...

Dayton Mayor Bob Vincent announced Tuesday afternoon that he, along with City Manager Frank Welch and City Recorder Tom Solomon, decided to place a hiring and replacement freeze on all departments funded by the ...