Juvenile Probation

Butler County commissioners agreed on a split vote this week to renew a contract with a Cranberry psychologist whose intensive in-home services to troubled adolescents have won him accolades and support, despite concerns about the cost and litigation the doctor filed against the county.

Nashville gang life draws thousands 
Nashville has several thousand members in nine street gangs that go by names such as the Bloods, Crips, Asian Pride, Brown Pride and MS-13. Some deal drugs and get in fights with each other. All throw gang signs. And some of them go home to single mothers in the suburbs.

Pahrump tax rate at $3.12 
The old saying goes there are two things that you can't escape in life: death and taxes. The latter -- the first Nye County tax bill for the 2006-07 fiscal year -- arrived in the mail this week. The first quarterly installment is due by Aug. 21.

Commissioners rescind burn ban 
Following last week's replenishing rain, the Nacogdoches County Commissioners Court voted unanimously, and without discussion, to lift the burn ban it had set six weeks ago.

Fund-raiser to benefit 'Captain' 
When juvenile probation officer Gary Bollinger called his doctor last month after a year of inconclusive test results concerning a lump on his shoulder, he gathered a tight-knit group of co-workers around him for support.