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LARKSVILLE, This week has brought Clarksville the kind of weather many people here have been waiting for. Abundant sunshine with ighs in the 70s in other words, erfection. ooking ahead to the extended Easter weekend, the National Weather Service says we may experience an interruption in the otherwise-pleasant trend. But it last long. Good Friday brings an expected morning low of 62 degrees, with an anticipated daytime high of 70.

But hat sunshine will give way to rain, i appears. Unfortunately, rain and thunders torms look likely for Good Friday as a frontal boundary works its way across the said NWS Nashville meteorologist Bobby Boyd. Behind the front, it will be cooler for at least a couple of days. But the sunshine be gone for long. weekend brings a low emperature Saturday morning of 3 8 degrees and a Saturday daytime EASTER WEATHER WEEKEND BRINGS STORMS, SUN Rain on Good Friday, chilly Saturday and Sunday mornings JIMMY SETTLE THE LEAF-CHRONICLE COPYRIGHT 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED $1.00 RETAIL FOR HOME DELIVERY PRICING, SEE PAGE 3 VOL.

127, NO. 13 FRIDAY, APRIL CLARKSVILLE, TENN. ADVICE C7 BUSINESS 1D CLASSIFIED D2 COMICS C6 OBITUARIES A6 FORUM 7A PROUD SUPPORTER OF OR CAMPBELL AND OUR TR OOPS TENNESSEE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, ESTABLISHED 1808 weather C8 Heavy rain and thunderstorms igh: 71 Low: 36 Let the egg hunting EGG HUNTS, C1 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. The attorney or a 72-year-old Maryland man accused of driving the wrong way on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and killing a motorcyclist in a head-on crash says his cli- ent may suffer from some sort of dementia and asked that his preliminary hearing on a reckless homicide charge be postponed until May.

Herbert Leland Hensley Jr. of Essex, aryland, was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated assault March 16 after allegedly driving his Ford Mustang westbound in the eastbound lanes and colliding with a motorcycle in front Hilldale Church of Christ. The lanes are divided by a median. Dickson motorcyclist Bruce Best, 59, died in the crash, and his wife, Lisa Best, 52, was critically injured and had to have a leg amputated. Hensley was not hurt.

He remains in Montgomery County Jail on $600,000 bond. is attorney, Eric Yow, asked Judge Wayne Shelton on Thursday to reschedule a preliminary hearing, and it was reset to May 6. Yow said blood tests from Hensley have not been returned from a tate lab. Outside the courtroom, Yow said he will also ask for an evaluation to determine competency. question is, does he have de- mentia, does he have some cognitive impairment? And my theory is Yow said.

He said an evaluation is needed to determine if Hensley knew what he was oing at the time and whether he is competent to aid in his own defense. theory is he did not have anything in his Yow said. is a reason you are driving the wrong way own a road. My goal is to figure out what that reason is. And I believe FATAL WRECK Lawyer: Blame dementia Maryland man charged with reckless homicide in death of motorcyclist STEPHANIE INGERSOLL THE LEAF-CHRONICLE CLARKSVILLE, The Clarksville City Council worked late into Thursday ight going over proposed revisions to the 67-page charter.

By 9:30 p.m, the Council had agreed to some non-controversial changes but was still going through more contentious amendments being proposed by individual members a nd had not yet voted on the overall resolution by press time. hortly after 9 p.m. Thursday, the City Council began going through proposed revisions to the charter which Mayor Kim McMillan introduced a executive session one week before. But first City Councilman Mike Alexand er made a motion to postpone voting on the resolution until he and other members could get more education on what all they were voting on. His motion to postpone the vote until September failed 7-6.

McMillan had said time is of the essence to get the matter before the state legislature during this session and any delay would mean putting off charter revisions for a year. The legislature has to approve changes before sending it back to the City Council for ratification. I think too soon and I move to postpone, even if that means it goes to next Alexander said. Right now not comfortable with the legislation laying in front of Councilwoman Deanna McLaughlin hared his concern and said she heard from colleagues that like to set up additional sessions to go through the document, pointing out that four new Council members and Valerie Guzman were not part of the previous council that voted on the last charter revisions in 2012. After the council approved those hanges and the state legislature voted for them, the charter revisions came ack to the City Council and failed to get atified by a two-thirds vote.

Baker rapidly went through parts of he proposed revisions Council mem- ers received Monday page by page, be- GOVERNMENT Council considers charter changes Motion to postpone voting resolution until September failed 7-6 STEPHANIE INGERSOLL THE LEAF-CHRONICLE.