Eighteen-year-old Jake Logue, a senior at Sullivan South High School, collapsed after about three quarters of the game on Aug. 21, and was later pronounced dead at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Emergency responders said he had gone into cardiac arrest. WBIR-TV reported Thursday that the Knox County Medical Examiner's office says he died of natural causes because of a problem with the bicuspid aortic valve.

Original Times-News report on Logue's death.

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TVA executives took home less money in 2009, while another 3,300 managers didn’t get a pay raise due to declining power sales and economic activity and rising cleanup and repair costs from TVA’s Kingston coal ash spill last December, officials said.

“Because of the Kingston (ash spill) and the economic situation, we decided to eliminate any bonus payouts for executives in place at that time,” TVA Director Dennis Bottorff said during an agency board meeting Thursday in Bowling Green, Ky.

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However, theater popcorn isn't a regular dietary staple, but a treat enjoyed a few times a year, counters Regal Entertainment Group.The CSPI group's second look at concessions - the last was 15 years ago - found little had changed despite theaters' attempts to reformulate.

CSPI bought multiple servings of popcorn from the three largest movie chains - Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Theatres and Cinemark - and had them analyzed in an independent laboratory.

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Such a sign has been posted for decades at the Lawson McGhee Library in downtown Knoxville, but not at the 17 branch libraries, said Larry Frank, director of the library system.

Frank said he wrote a memo to Knox County Law Director Bill Lockett about the handgun policy in libraries after a man came into the Fountain City library with a “visibly holstered handgun.”

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Although possessing gambling devices is a crime, Knox County business owners who have stocked the machines in recent years have usually faced only the prospect of having their property confiscated. The Knox County Beer Board, however, is now exploring ways to crack down on offending beer permit holders that could drive some of them out of business.

The issue was brought to the Beer Board’s attention at its Monday night meeting by Knox County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Allen May, who recently helped confiscate several machines from two East Knox County bars.

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Federal agents on Tuesday raided a Gibson guitar manufacturing plant and seized guitars, but no one was arrested.

The Tennessean reported that the Rainforest Alliance announced on Wednesday that Gibson CEO and chairman Henry Juszkiewicz will not rejoin the board until the investigation has concluded.

Guitars and other musical instruments are often built from tropical hardwoods. Amid rainforest depletion, such woods are increasingly the focus of tight controls.

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The parents of Justin White say they want the public to know how deadly the virus can be. The boy from Lynnville died on Sunday at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville.

His father, Joddie White, told The Daily Herald in Columbia that the boy had been suffering from kidney problems before catching the flu. Justin was also diagnosed with cerebral palsy and couldn't walk or talk. Justin White spent two weeks on a ventilator before his death.

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This is the 20th year United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association and Partnership for Prevention have ranked states' health. Though some progress has been made - infant mortality, crime rates and infectious disease have declined - lack of insurance and prenatal care and the high school dropout rate continue to rise, it states.

But the biggest problem is obesity - more than one in four Americans are now considered obese - followed closely by smoking, a habit of one in five Americans. Nearly a quarter of Tennesseans smoke.

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The upshot is that instead of 20 weeks of extra benefits at a maximum of $300 a week, many Tennesseans probably will draw only 14 more weeks — on top of 79 weeks previously received — before the aid runs out due to a Dec. 31 cutoff date.The mix-up is confusing and confounding to many jobless workers who have exhausted or are about to run out of their government aid. Approximately 35,500 Tennesseans getting unemployment checks could be affected.

Fourteen weeks is better than nothing," said Johnny Hayes, 57, a Nashvillian who has been out of work for a little more than a year and got his last unemployment check a few weeks ago.

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“I think there’s enough stimulus in place that we are going to have a recovery next year that’s a little bit stronger than the consensus,” Hipple told the local chapter of a society of operations managers, APICS, at a Tuesday dinner.

Hipple, who called himself “a lifelong Republican, also said Obama has wasted political capital with what he called “the train wreck” of health care reform. Combined with fears of inflation by some economists, particularly on the right, that Hipple called unfounded, the result could be a weaker recovery than necessary. “My fear is that we might need a second stimulus package and we might not have the political will or the common sense to do it.”

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A college spokeswoman says three students were collecting frogs for a biology class at about 4 p.m. Tuesday when two were shot along a trail about a mile west of campus. A female student died after being shot in the chest. A male student was shot in the hand. The other student wasn't injured.

The victims haven't been identified.

Sgt. Karl Martin the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says 31-year-old Jason David Cloutier of Ferrum was charged with manslaughter, reckless handling of a firearm and trespassing.

The college scheduled a prayer service for 10 a.m. Wednesday.