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Staff photo by Olivia Ross / Visitors swim and enjoy the weather at Chester Frost Park on Sunday. The National Weather Service forecast calls for temperatures to reach 99 degrees Wednesday with temperatures holding in the mid-90s into next week. yeezy slide Thermometers are predicted to hit near the century mark Wednesday, marking the hottest day of the year so far.Forecast temperatures remain mostly in the mid yeezy foam to upper 90s going through the weekend and into next week with chances of thundershowers posing the only relief. Tomorrow we ll be getting to 99 in the Chattanooga area, Derek Eisentrout, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Morrist adidas samba adidas own, Tennessee, said in a phone interview Tuesday. So far this month, our highest has been 97 on the 23rd and 24th. We ve had a bit of a heat wave across the South and the Chattanooga area 鈥?very high temps and very low precipitation. Total rainfall for the month of June so far stands at 0.94 inches, 2.23 inches below normal, Eisentrout said. Since Jan. 1, rainfall for the year has totaled 24.77 inches, which is 2.69 inches below normal, most of that shortage coming in recent weeks. We were right around the normal before we got into June, he said, noting summertime in Tennessee often has patches of hot, dry weather. READ MORE: Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest and Northeast, bringing safety measures Photo GalleryChattanooga forecast calls for blazing heat into next Tefy Trial in Alabama girl s running death delayed for second day
Defense attorney Rip Biggs, right, consoles his client as Jessica Sterchi becomes emotio stanley tazas nal after her bonds were raised and case bound over to the grand jury during a preliminary hearing in Judge Gary Starnes脮s courtroom on June 11, 2014. Sterchi informed police that she was stanley flask present with her brother and boyfriend when Zachery Higdon was killed in his trailer nearly three years ago. Nearly three years ago, Jessica Sterchi said something that changed her life and likely ended another s.She was fighting with her on-and-off boyfriend Travis Caslin. Both were looking for drugs, cocaine if they could get it. She told him that Zacherey Higdon dealt it, and maybe they could steal some. He wouldn t pu stanley water jug t up a fight.But he did, and he s dead.All police had before they talked with Sterchi in April were rumors of Higdon s October 2011 shooting death at his home in the Whispering Pines mobile home park at 900 Airport Road.His mother had found his body, splayed as if he d been crucified, a pillow over his face, his hands outstretched, sprayed with bleach, his right ankle crossed over his left and his pants pulled down.A single gunshot wound below his left armpit and blood from his mouth were the obvious signs of death.An informant led Chattanooga police Detective Lucas Fuller to Sterchi, who told him details as she sobbed during a four-hour interview.She said that as soon as she told Travis Caslin, 39, and his brother Charles Caslin, 43, about Higdon s drug supply, she saw Travis eyes go
Staff photo by Olivia Ross / Visitors swim and enjoy the weather at Chester Frost Park on Sunday. The National Weather Service forecast calls for temperatures to reach 99 degrees Wednesday with temperatures holding in the mid-90s into next week. yeezy slide Thermometers are predicted to hit near the century mark Wednesday, marking the hottest day of the year so far.Forecast temperatures remain mostly in the mid yeezy foam to upper 90s going through the weekend and into next week with chances of thundershowers posing the only relief. Tomorrow we ll be getting to 99 in the Chattanooga area, Derek Eisentrout, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Morrist adidas samba adidas own, Tennessee, said in a phone interview Tuesday. So far this month, our highest has been 97 on the 23rd and 24th. We ve had a bit of a heat wave across the South and the Chattanooga area 鈥?very high temps and very low precipitation. Total rainfall for the month of June so far stands at 0.94 inches, 2.23 inches below normal, Eisentrout said. Since Jan. 1, rainfall for the year has totaled 24.77 inches, which is 2.69 inches below normal, most of that shortage coming in recent weeks. We were right around the normal before we got into June, he said, noting summertime in Tennessee often has patches of hot, dry weather. READ MORE: Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest and Northeast, bringing safety measures Photo GalleryChattanooga forecast calls for blazing heat into next Tefy Trial in Alabama girl s running death delayed for second day
Defense attorney Rip Biggs, right, consoles his client as Jessica Sterchi becomes emotio stanley tazas nal after her bonds were raised and case bound over to the grand jury during a preliminary hearing in Judge Gary Starnes脮s courtroom on June 11, 2014. Sterchi informed police that she was stanley flask present with her brother and boyfriend when Zachery Higdon was killed in his trailer nearly three years ago. Nearly three years ago, Jessica Sterchi said something that changed her life and likely ended another s.She was fighting with her on-and-off boyfriend Travis Caslin. Both were looking for drugs, cocaine if they could get it. She told him that Zacherey Higdon dealt it, and maybe they could steal some. He wouldn t pu stanley water jug t up a fight.But he did, and he s dead.All police had before they talked with Sterchi in April were rumors of Higdon s October 2011 shooting death at his home in the Whispering Pines mobile home park at 900 Airport Road.His mother had found his body, splayed as if he d been crucified, a pillow over his face, his hands outstretched, sprayed with bleach, his right ankle crossed over his left and his pants pulled down.A single gunshot wound below his left armpit and blood from his mouth were the obvious signs of death.An informant led Chattanooga police Detective Lucas Fuller to Sterchi, who told him details as she sobbed during a four-hour interview.She said that as soon as she told Travis Caslin, 39, and his brother Charles Caslin, 43, about Higdon s drug supply, she saw Travis eyes go