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Britanny Rankin (update)
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has released an updated traffic crash report in connection with the recent Brittany Rankin arrest. Rankin, 19, Classic Road, Newport, was taken into custody this week on charges of vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, DUI, no driver's license, failure to exercise due care and violation of the child restraint law, returned last month by a Cocke County Grand Jury. On April 8, the defendant was traveling on I-40 in Cocke County when her car went out of control, struck a cable barrier and rolled. Her two month-old son, Landon, was thrown through a window and landed on the interstate. He was flown to East Tennessee Children's Hospital for treatment and survived. The updated report by Trooper Erik Raines who investigated the crash, says the car seat was fastened in the 1996 Ford "however the infant was not buckled into the harness of the seat." Although Rankin told the officer she had fastened her child, an off-duty paramedic who stopped at the scene to render aide says he heard Rankin tell her boyfriend "we didn't buckle him in." At the Knoxville hospital, Rankin allegedly admitted she smoked marijuana the day of the crash and five days earlier had taken a Xanax which was not prescribed. A blood-alcohol content test after the crash indicated marijuana and clonazepam were in the driver's system at the time of the incident. Bond for Rankin is set at $50,000 in the case that was indicted in June.
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Mill Creek Wildfire Update
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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Goodbye Smokies?
Keep Cocke County Beautiful
Cocke Co. High School Remote Learning today!
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
The fireflies are coming!
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Gas prices drop
Tennessee keeps all US House seats
Monday, April 26, 2021
Boat accident victim ID'd
Traffic stop yields drug arrest
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Newport drug roundup
Cruise Against Cancer
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