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Convenience store robbed, arrest made

Jan. 30– Savannah police today arrested a suspect in a snatch-and-run robbery at K&M Market on Florence Road.

Michael D. Bullock, 46, Hickory Street, is accused of reaching across the counter and grabbing about $200 from the cash register drawer around 9:13 Saturday night.

The store clerk on duty, Vicky Slease, told police she "couldn’t believe" Bullock did it "because she knew him and that his sister is an employee at the store." She said Bullock then ran from the store and fled south on foot.

According to police, Slease said the robber laid 50 cents on the counter to buy a snack item that cost 55 cents. Asking if he could use five cents from the "leave a penny" tray, he snatched the cash when the register drawer opened.

State audit reels in TWRA employee

Jan. 23– A Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency secretary working out of the Jackson office was pocketing cash collected at pay-to-fish ponds and lakes, a special report from the state comptroller of the treasury released today reveals.

A "pay lake" is a private body of water that charges a fee to fish, a fee per pound of fish, or a fee only if a fish is caught.

According to the audit, the missing funds, totaling nearly $4,700 for the period of May through October of 2009, came from honor boxes at various lakes

Pam Lefler, the former secretary for the TWRA Region I office which serves Hardin County, admitted to keeping the pay lake funds, telling authorities she was "under extreme financial distress" and took the money with the intent of paying it back later.

Aqua Glass plant closing

Jan. 18– With new housing starts still showing weakness, an Aqua Glass plant is shutting down.

Parent company Masco Bath told The Courier this afternoon that the Aqua Glass manufacturing facility in Klamath Falls, Ore., will cease production activities March 30.

Like the Aqua Glass plant in Adamsville, the west coast facility makes bathroom and shower products.

The Adamsville operation has seen several rounds of layoffs in the wake of the slow housing market.

"This was an especially difficult decision because of the quality of the workforce, but necessary due to economic conditions," said Kathleen Vokes, director of communications for Masco Corporation.