WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters to Pick College Football Bowl Game Winners Today (Thursday)

December 13, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

The 2018 College Football Bowl Game Edition of WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters will air today (Thursday) starting at 4:30 p.m.

The Forecasters will be picking winners in all 40 college football bowl games as well as predicting the eventual national champion

Dewain Hendrixson maintains his lead going into the bowl season.

Hendrixson has an overall record of 138-70.

Grant James of the James Gang is in second place at 128-80, ten games back. Darrell Gill and Will Graham are tied for third place at 127-81, eleven games out followed by Ricky Atnip and Chad Kirby each at 125-83, thirteen games back. Scott Brown’s record is 122-86, sixteen games out. John Pryor is 118-90, twenty games back and the guests are 116-92, twenty two games out of first place.

Meanwhile Ricky Atnip and Will Graham each had the best record for the week (two weeks ago) at 13-2 followed by Chad Kirby and Dewain Hendrixson each at 12-3. Grant James of the James Gang and the guest Tom Duggin each went 11-4. Darrell Gill and John Pryor each went 10-5 and Scott Brown went 9-6.

One forecaster hit his underdog pick two weeks ago. Dewain Hendrixson picked up one point with UAB’s upset of MTSU.

Overall Will Graham has the most underdog points at 45. Grant James of the James Gang has 42. Scott Brown is next with 41. Ricky Atnip and the guests have 24.5, John Pryor 21.5, Darrell Gill 14, Dewain Hendrixson 12, and Chad Kirby 5.

Today’s special guest is Jim Hodges of Middle Tennessee Natural Gas.

This year’s guests have been local minister Larry Green, Rhea County High School Girls Basketball Coach Darvin Gill, TWRA Officer Tony Cross, County Mayor Tim Stribling, local minister Isaac Gray, County Fire Chief and Farm Service Agency Director Donny Green, Attorney Luke Willoughby, County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss, Dan Delacruz of Smithville Computer, Ronnie Goodwin formerly of Liberty State Bank, DCHS Football Coach Steve Trapp, DCHS Lady Tiger Basketball Coach and Tigerette Softball Coach Danny Fish, DeKalb Administrator of Elections Dennis Stanley, Tom Duggin of DTC Communications/MyDTC3.

Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.

The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Liberty State Bank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, and DeKalb County Ace Hardware.

December 13, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

Although the DeKalb County Clerk’s office will be open Saturday until 11:30 a.m. the self-service kiosk for driver license renewals or replacements will not be available Saturday, December 15 due to scheduled driver license system maintenance. The kiosk will be useable again on Monday, December 17 at 8:00 AM

December 12, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

An escapee who has been incarcerated in Florida for the past year was extradited to DeKalb County last week and sentenced in Criminal Court on Tuesday, December 11.

27 year old Daniel Trey Hamilton of Jacobs Pillar Road, Smithville, under indictment for escape, appeared before Judge David Patterson for arraignment and decided to enter a guilty plea to the escape charge. Hamilton will serve 11 months and 29 days but he has been given jail credit since November 27, 2017.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said Hamilton was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida after being involved in a traffic accident there one week after his escape from the DeKalb County Jail on November 21, 2017.

At the time of his escape last November, Hamilton was serving a 60 day sentence after which he was to begin serving a sentence of 11 months and 29 days for failure to appear and violation of probation. Polk County also had a hold on Hamilton for charges against him there.

Hamilton, 39 year old Jack Mullican, Jr. of Adcock Cemetery Road and 33 year old Bryon Ray Gibbs of Gin Alley, Alexandria all broke out of the jail annex through a door they jimmied open.

Mullican was captured the next morning, November 22, 2017 after being found in an underground water drain near Mapco Express in Smithville. He became trapped there after making his escape.

Gibbs was apprehended Saturday, November 25, 2017 thanks to an alert Alexandria Police Officer, Josh Arnold and a few citizen bystanders. After being confronted, Gibbs resisted and began fighting with Arnold. Citizens who witnessed the scene came to the aid of the officer to help subdue Gibbs. Deputies and detectives of the Sheriff’s Department also responded to provide assistance.

Gibbs was charged by Alexandria Police with resisting arrest and aggravated assault.

All three, Hamilton, Mullican, and Gibbs, were charged and later indicted for escape.

In July, Mullican entered a plea in criminal court to escape and in a separate case for aggravated burglary. He received a two year sentence for the escape and five years for the burglary to run consecutively for a total of seven years. He must serve two years at 30% for the escape but the remaining five years will be suspended to supervised probation. He was given jail credit of 259 days.

Gibbs also entered a plea in July to escape, aggravated assault (of an Alexandria Police Officer) and aggravated burglary (separate incident). He received a two year sentence for the escape to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction. Gibbs also got a four year sentence in each of the other two cases on TDOC probation. The terms are to run consecutively. He was given jail credit from November 25, 2017 to July 17, 2018.

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