The top stories of 2023 in Butler County included the collapse of a teenage quarterback in Karns City, the potential sale of the Butler Area Sewer Authority and much more.
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The news in Butler County included more headlines about homicide in 2023 than in the year before.
Amid those headlines were stories about a former nurse accused of killing two patients at Butler Coun.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) cut a rape kit backlog, but now it's fighting another. This one has to do with getting into suspects' phones and computers, with TBI’s director admitting the wait has grown to more than a year.