Take Note: Sharing the wealth; Sparing the salary

It's more than holiday spirit that makes a Tennessee sheriff want to give schools a share of $897,000 found in the car of a suspected drug trafficker.

"Most of the people we lock up never had a chance to learn about the effects of drugs as kids," Ron McClellan, the sheriff of Campbell County, said.

To change that, Mr. McClellan wants his department's $717,000 cut of the money--which he gets under federal drug-seizure laws--to pay for two drug-education officers and classroom...