Tuesday, August 22
After a long day yesterday, I was really looking forward to a long night of sleep. And here's the part where you would expect me to say something along the lines of "I got called in to work early" or "I didn't get to bed until late, because I was working." Well, that stuff didn't happen. By 10 last night, I was in bed and was able to sleep until 8. If my math is correct, that is roughly 10 hours of sleep. Happy me!
Newton County School District Shines:
And speaking of math...last year's Newton County Elementary School 2nd Graders were good at it. Every one of them scored at the proficient lever or better. More than half made it to the highest level. NCES was one of only 15 2nd grade classes to do that last year.
Also out in Decatur, a couple of Jordan's did pretty well for themselves on the state subject area tests. Jordan Clark is a Senior at NCHS. He made a 500 (out of 500) on the U.S. History test. It is the 2nd time that he has made a perfect score on a subject test. When he was in 9th grade, he did it on the Biology I test.
Not only do Jordan Clark and Jordan Hammons share the same first name, they also share a perfect score on the Bio test. Hammons, a sophomore, said on last year's test, there were some questions that he wasn't sure about, but it was pretty simple.
While I was in Newton County this afternoon, I stopped by the Newton Police Department to speak with Newton Police Chief Harvy Curry about the murder case from earlier this month. And when I pulled up, another story just kind of fell into my lap.
Tennessee Murder Suspects:
A detective from the Nashville PD was there picking up a couple of murder suspects (Tonya Jackson and Phillip Gregory). The two were wanted for the murder of 55-year-old Michael Nimmo of Nashville. According to Detective Brad Corcoran, Jackson and Nimmo were friends. She had been living with the victim for a couple of months. During (at least part of) that time, her boyfriend (Phillip Gregory) was in jail. When Gregory got out of jail, he went to live with Jackson and Nimmo. About three days later is when the homicide occurred. Corcoran said that police do not know if there was an argument or "some type of jealousy problem that they had."
As for how the city of Newton is involved...Jackson and Gregory were stopped for a traffic violation in the city early Sunday morning. The Newton PD found that Gregory and Jackson were in a vehicle stolen from the murder victim. The pair was arrested for the outstanding warrants for Motor Vehicle Theft and because they were wanted for murder.
As Phillip Gregory was being put in the car to be transported back to Tennessee, he asked if he was allowed to say anything to the camera. Of course, I accommodated his request. Click here to see what he had to say.
Newton County School District Shines:
And speaking of math...last year's Newton County Elementary School 2nd Graders were good at it. Every one of them scored at the proficient lever or better. More than half made it to the highest level. NCES was one of only 15 2nd grade classes to do that last year.
Also out in Decatur, a couple of Jordan's did pretty well for themselves on the state subject area tests. Jordan Clark is a Senior at NCHS. He made a 500 (out of 500) on the U.S. History test. It is the 2nd time that he has made a perfect score on a subject test. When he was in 9th grade, he did it on the Biology I test.
Not only do Jordan Clark and Jordan Hammons share the same first name, they also share a perfect score on the Bio test. Hammons, a sophomore, said on last year's test, there were some questions that he wasn't sure about, but it was pretty simple.
While I was in Newton County this afternoon, I stopped by the Newton Police Department to speak with Newton Police Chief Harvy Curry about the murder case from earlier this month. And when I pulled up, another story just kind of fell into my lap.
Tennessee Murder Suspects:
A detective from the Nashville PD was there picking up a couple of murder suspects (Tonya Jackson and Phillip Gregory). The two were wanted for the murder of 55-year-old Michael Nimmo of Nashville. According to Detective Brad Corcoran, Jackson and Nimmo were friends. She had been living with the victim for a couple of months. During (at least part of) that time, her boyfriend (Phillip Gregory) was in jail. When Gregory got out of jail, he went to live with Jackson and Nimmo. About three days later is when the homicide occurred. Corcoran said that police do not know if there was an argument or "some type of jealousy problem that they had."
As for how the city of Newton is involved...Jackson and Gregory were stopped for a traffic violation in the city early Sunday morning. The Newton PD found that Gregory and Jackson were in a vehicle stolen from the murder victim. The pair was arrested for the outstanding warrants for Motor Vehicle Theft and because they were wanted for murder.
As Phillip Gregory was being put in the car to be transported back to Tennessee, he asked if he was allowed to say anything to the camera. Of course, I accommodated his request. Click here to see what he had to say.
posted by Chris Brennaman at 6:51 PM
1 Comments:
Someday maybe the laws and governments will find a way to keep habitual criminals behind bars and things like this won't happen. They deserve everything that the law can throw at them if they are guilty of this crime. Hopefully the legal system will figure out that the general public would benefit by just never letting this loser out of jail again. Or I guess they will just have to wait and see whose life he destroys next.
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