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southern states -- Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, according
to the Associated Press. Already, three schools in middle Tennessee
closed this year due to illness. Macon and Stewart County schools
returned this week after dismissing classes due to sickness. Macon
County schools cancelled classes for two days last week after 575
students reported sick. Last Tuesday in Stewart County, 240 of 2100
students were absent due to illness. Also, Clarksville Academy had to
close it's doors in early November after many students came down with
strep and influenza.
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Couple's bodies found in their Blount County home
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LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Blount (blunt) County sheriff's office says preliminary results of autopsies on the bodies of a couple found dead in their home in Louisville (LEW'-ihs-vil) show their deaths are consistent with murder-suicide.
Marian O'Briant said in an email that it appears 54-year-old Steven Adkins shot 53-year-old Rebecca Adkins, then shot himself.
O'Briant said a family member found the bodies Sunday night. It wasn't clear how long they had been dead.
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