Jurors have started their second day of deliberation in Leon Houston’s double murder trial in Roane County. They chose to leave at 5:00 PM yesterday and to

By Darrell Richardson | editor@oakridger.com A six-woman, six-man jury was finalized Saturday morning from the pool of 16 jurors who had sat through the

By Matt Lakin (Contact) Twelve men and women reported back to Roane County Circuit Court on an overcast Sunday morning for a second day of deliberations in

KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors and lawyers for Clifford Leon Houston were delivering closing arguments in his first-degree murder trial.
During the trial in Kingston, both sides said Houston's brother, Rocky Joe Houston, fired the shots that killed Deputy William Birl Jones and former policeman Gerald Michael Brown in May 2006.