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I Volume 84-Number 130 Tri-Cities Tennessee Today 500 SATURDAY December 20 2003 Cold forecast Page 3A Inside News $1 million grant to boost Upstate effort is the biggest influx of money for the homeless ever Baldwin said been working on this for A majority of the $1 million will be placed in the hands of the Kingsport Housing Authority and Good Samaritan Ministries to be distributed throughout the region Another $129500 will be going to Catholic Charities and Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Johnson City to be used in a program to support families in need is gomg to cover lease payments and case management services for six families for a two-year Baldwin said In an effort to help Johnson City fight addic- See HOMELESS Page 6A By James Watson Press StaffWriter jwatsonjohnsonatypress com More than $1 million is coming to Northeast Tennessee to help the homeless as part of a record-setting $13 billion federal grant being awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs getting a total of $1033 Steve Baldwin director of Community Development for the city of Johnson City said Friday To be more effective in the competition for grants Baldwin said more than 20 different groups in the area came together to form the Lee TalbertJohnson City Press Funds are geared for area homeless Drug A boat seized in the Persian Gulf may provide evidence of an al-Qaida drug smuggling link Appalachian Regional Coalition for the Homeless By working together these organizations were able to compete and sell HUD officials on the needs of Northeast Tennessee Winter in Traffic crawls snow depths mount in regional storm Point search IB ETSU basketball point guard Tim Smith is working on finding his shooting touch Also Inside Leaders: Libya will dismantle WMD plan WASHINGTON Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has admitted trying to develop weapons of mass destruction but now plans to dismantle all such programs President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday Bush said decision which would open the country to international weapons inspectors would be great in stoppmg weapons of mass destruction in a global fight against terrorism If Libya follows through Bush said good faith can be He said the United States and Britain would make sure Libya kept its word given its but he added we have found with other nations old hostilities do not need to go on The Libyan news agency Jana Tripoli quoted Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam as saying Libyan experts had shown their US and British counterparts substances equipment and programs that could lead to production of internationally banned These included a machine and equipment to carry chemical has decided with its own free will to get rid of these substances equipment and programs and would be free from all internationally banned the news agency quoted the foreign minister as saying in a statement monitored by the BBC Blair said Britain and the United States had been talking with Libya for nme months after negotiating a settlement in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie Scotland that killed 270 people Libya made the overture hoping to resolve its weapons program a similarly cooperative Blair said in Durham Britain At the White House Bush said See LIBYA Page 6A Court says IDs of music downloaders protected Internet providers be forced to reveal names ruling says WASHINGTON The recording industry force Internet providers to identify music downloaders a federal appeals court said Friday in a major decision shielding online privacy while undercutting the anti-piracy campaign The ruling does not legalize distributing copyrighted songs over the Internet but it will greatly increase the cost and effort for the Washington-based Recording Industry Association of America to track such activity and sue those who are swapping music online The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a trial decision to enforce copyright subpoenas one of the most effective tools used by the recording industry The subpoena power was established by a law passed before the explosive growth of swapping music online an incredible ruling a blow for the little said Bob Barnes a grandfather in Fresno Calif who was targeted by one of the earliest subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America but among the hundreds who have been sued so far The appeals court said the 1998 copyright law cover pop- See DOWNLOAD Page 6A Tennessee7A Weather3A News Local4A Lottery2A Nation9A Sports Baseball3B Basketball6B Football4B NFLSB On Air2B Scores2B Depending on where you were around the region on Friday you could have seen anywhere from a light dusting to more than a foot of snow throughout the day Road conditions across the area worsened as the snow continued to fall all day and into the night The National Weather Service called for one to four inches of possible accumulation overnight Friday Unicoi County seemed to be the hardest hit Authorities reported numerous minor accidents on Interstate 26 Friday afternoon No serious injuries were reported Road crews all over the region were working overtime Friday and early Saturday trying to stay ahead of the white stuff Up to 18 inches of snow fell by early afternoon FYiday in the mountainous regions of Unicoi County causing several accidents One lane of 1-26 was open across Sams Gap in Flag Pond to North Carolina Friday afternoon but at around 1 pm a recreational vehicle caught fire which closed both westbound lanes of the interstate for a few hours near Exit 9 at Clear Branch Unicoi County Highway Department Superintendent Terry Haynes said his crews were working night and day with what trucks were left running have four trucks running and the rest are either stuck or broke Haynes said ask that everyone be patient with us and we will get to them as soon as we See WINTER Page 6A Elsewhere Astrology8C Auto6C Bridge8C I Celebs 1 0A Comics9C Classified 1 Dear Abby8C Editorial8A Movies7C Puzzles8C Stocks5C TV listing8C Above Tyler Huffine left 10 and John Huffine 11 try out their snowboarding skills and below Catie Smith left 14 and Cassie Carter 9 set their sledding sights downhill at Pine Oaks Golf Course Deaths2A JOHNSON CITY Margaret Dempsey GR Duncan George Gnann Reece Teague Cris Zadach BAKERSVILLE NC Lena Buchanan ELIZABETHTON Ruby Smith ERWIN Walter Bailey ROAN MOUNTAIN Carl Garrison Four-year-old Bailey Poor makes a snowball Unicoi County officials hope new exit will attract business By Chris Garland Erwirr Bureau cgaHandohnsonatypress com Some Christmas carolers -don't know when to quit Dec 20 5 shopping days to Christmas Front Page DesignDon Dale Visit Our Web Site At Johnson QtyPresscom lent property there and close access to 1 Boone said property could be used for just about anything the county wants to do with it The exit ramp meets interstate standards and is safe but we went beyond what we estimated due to the wet weather we had this The project first planned for completion at the same time of the 1-26 opening in Mars Hill NC broke ground in March after four years of planning No development has yet been announced for the site am very glad that it is finally finished and that thfe interchange will give another opportunity for our Unicoi See EXIT Page 6A i UNICOI Tinker Road Exit 21 on Interstate 26 Is now open a move that opens the door to potential development of more than 50 prime acres of land The $14 million exit was planned as part of an 1-26 upgrade by the state and is partly funded by federal grant money Tennessee Department of Transportation Project Manager Carl Boone said the exit was designed for future development of that particular area County landowners have excel I Mil Traffic is now using the new 1-26 exit '14236" 33050 I.