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Tennessee takes another baby step in reducing the number of premature births. The number of babies that were born too soon is down statewide for the 3rd year in a row. Our premature birth rate is down to 12.8%. That's good enough for a "C" from the March of Dimes. Tennessee is doing better than most of its peers in the southeast. Improvement efforts are focused on unhealthy mothers and unnecessary elective deliveries.
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DA: Victims shot after drugs handed over
May 24, 2013 18:20 GMT

By SHEILA BURKE Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Tennessee pharmacy owner killed during a robbery had handed over several bottles of oxycodone before he was shot.

Grainger County District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn made the comments Friday, one day after the owner of Down Home Pharmacy in Bean Station, a town in East Tennessee, was shot and killed during the robbery. Police say a customer was also killed and two people were wounded.

A former Bean Station police officer, Jason Bryan Holt, has been charged with two counts of premeditated first degree murder, two counts of attempted first degree murder, two counts of felony murder and one count of especially aggravated robbery.

Dunn says police apprehended Holt within 100 years of the pharmacy.

The 37-year-old suspect was an officer in Bean Station from 2002 to 2004 and later worked at the Grainger County Sheriff's Department.

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