Trion’s Brody Malone will leave Paris with a medal. Malone is a member of the U.S. Men’s Gymnastics team that won a bronze medal Monday night. The achievement marks first for the American men’s gymnastics team in 16-years.
Four felony arrests reported in Walker County on Sunday. 22-year-old Elizabeth Cecilia Ann Lee was booked on a felony charge of receiving stolen property. She was also charged with possession of a controlled substance, attempting to elude police and felony credit card theft. She was also charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and driving under the influence of drugs.
According to AAA gas prices are down a penny from last week. Locally, a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $3.14 in our three county area. Catoosa-Dade-and-Walker Counties have the cheapest gas in the state. State wide gas prices are $3.33 for a gallon of regular unleaded.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal complaint against Chattanooga’s Erlanger Hospital. According to the complaint Erlanger knowingly billed Medicare for hospital services referred by its physicians between 2014 to at least 2021, in violation of federal law. 2 former Erlanger executives, former Chief Compliance Officer Alana Sullivan and former Chief Financial Officer Britt Tabor, filed a federal lawsuit back in April 2021. The document was recently unsealed this recently. Sullivan and Tabor claim Erlanger filed false insurance claims using the illegal self-referral process to government payers, including Medicare and Medicaid. That would be a violation of the federal anti-kickback statute known as the Stark Law. The lawsuit says the claims were false because the claimants weren’t in fact eligible for reimbursement.
