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Chattanooga Update - August 5, 2013

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

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Chattem officials say they're close to taking on what may be one of the company's biggest products yet.

If the FDA approves over-the counter sales of a Nasal Spray called Nasacort AQ, Chattem officials say the product could add more jobs in Chattanooga and bring in about $2 billion dollars a year.

Officials say the nasal spray, which aims to relieve symptoms of hay fever and allergies, would be the first over-the-counter medicine in its class.
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Hamilton County is considering spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to open an employee health clinic.
The proposed clinic would operate in the McDaniel Building, which already houses the county's employee pharmacy.
Mayor Jim Coppinger says the program seems to be a good call for the county and could help with rising health care costs.
Commissioners will vote on the proposal on Wednesday.
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A motorcyclist is dead after colliding with a pickup truck just before 6 p.m. Sunday on Highway 58 in Ooltewah.

Authorities say 29-year-old John M. Cox, of Georgetown, was wearing a helmet at the time, but died on the scene.

Investigators say Cox was speeding before he hit the front of a truck. And they say the truck driver was not injured in the accident.
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A Chattanooga jury has found Jerrico Hawthorne guilty of murder in the slaying of 23-year-old James Williams Jr.

Hawthorne, a member of the Gangster Disciples, was convicted of shooting Williams to death during a 2011 robbery.

Judge Rebecca Stern sentenced Hawthorne to life in prison on the murder charge.
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The brand new Rhea County High School has been unveiled in Dayton.
The $30 million dollar facility will be home to 24 hundred students this school year.
Classes are scheduled to begin on August 12.
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It turns out that President Obama wanted to have lunch at Bea's Restaurant while he was in Chattanooga.

The restaurant's owner, Doug Bradshaw, says he received a call from the Secret Service asking if the president could come eat lunch when he was in town on Tuesday.

Bradshaw said he told the Secret Service the restaurant's been closed every Tuesday since 1964. And then they hung up.

Bradshaw says he would have loved for the president to come, if only it had been a Wednesday.
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A part-time drivers license office opens today in Trenton, Georgia.

It's a big deal because for the first time in years, Dade County residents will no longer have to travel as far as 86 miles to renew a license.

The new office is opening in a former courtroom at the county Justice Building and will be open on the first and third Monday of every month.

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Police say a naked Tennessee teenager allegedly stole a Bobcat front loader and drunkenly attempted to drive it home.

19-year-old Joseph Michael Hall told Knox County authorities he took the bobcat to try and hide his nudity.

It's not immediately clear how he lost his clothes, but thankfully he was provided with a new set at the county jail.
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A Tennessee scuba diver has set a new record after staying underwater for more than six days.

49-year-old Jerry Hall set the new freshwater dive record in South Holston Lake in northeast Tennessee.

Hall lost about 30 pounds during the dive, which was used as a fundraiser for the children's charity of Bristol Motor Speedway.

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Finally, A Chattanooga man has completed a trip from Cuba to Florida on nothing but a stand-up paddle board.

Ben Friberg is believed to be the first person to complete the 111 mile voyage, and he made it in just 28 hours.

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