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Chattanooga Today, May 8, 2013

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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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Hello Chattanooga. Here's a quick look at today's top stories.

First of all, Chattanooga police officers will not be working security on the Riverbend Festival grounds this year.
In the past, more than 100 officers have worked during the festival, but now organizers say they plan to hire private security.
In previous years, festival officials only had to pay off-duty police officers to work security. Now, they've been told they'll have to pay on duty officers as well.
That would cost the festival $115 thousand dollars.
So now, with just one month until Riverbend opens, organizers are left looking for a private security firm.
In the last two years Chattanooga police made nearly 90 arrests during the festival, but private officers wouldn't have that power. All they'd be able to do is detain people and call police to make reports.
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Next up, Seventeen high schoolers were arrested and charged with underage drinking on Signal Mountain over the weekend, and some of them are within days of graduating.

Police arrested students from Baylor School, Girls Preparatory School and the McCallie School at a party after receiving a complaint from neighbors who said the party was too loud. The owners of the house were not home.
The ten students you see here are 18 years old. The others who were arrested are not legally adults.
More teens were at the party, but the ones arrested did not run away when police arrived.
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In business news, Chattanooga could begin producing two new Volkswagen SUVs in 2015.

VW recently showed off a five-seat SUV concept dubbed the Cross Blue Coupe at an auto show in China. The coupe would be the cousin to the seven-seat crossblue unveiled in Detroit in January.

According to Autoweek, if VW deciders to move ahead with the CrossBlue, production is slated to happen here in Chattanooga.
The company is expected to make the decision whether to move ahead, sometime this year.
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In politics, More than 33 thousand people nationwide have signed a petition opposing Tennessee's ag gag bill.
The petition from the American Civil Liberties Union urges Governor Bill Haslam to veto the bill.
The ACLU says the legislation quote "does nothing to prevent cruelty to animals" and criminalizes average citizens and journalists who witness and document abuse.
Of the 33 thousand who signed the petition, Only 350 were from Tennessee.
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Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts has won the Top Secondary Magnet School Award presented by the Magnet Schools of America at its national convention in Tulsa, Okla.
There are more than 4,000 magnet schools across the country. Principal Deborah Smith said the award signifies that CCA is the top magnet school among all secondary magnet schools in the country.
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And Lauren Alaina's new single, "Barefoot and Buckwild," cracked the Top 40 on iTunes' country singles chart before noon on its first day of release.
The single by the Rossville native ranked number 26 in the top 100 digital downloads yesterday, surpassing new singles from both Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert.
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And some major coaches stopped by the area on Tuesday.

University of Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox and football coach Mark Richt stopped in Ringgold to meet with Georgia fans.

Also, Tennessee Vols coach Butch Jones was in Chattanooga to speak at the Orange Grove Center.

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