ACTIVE WEEKEND OF WEATHER
Temperatures will climb into the upper 40s near 50 on Friday and most of the rain will have moved out. Rain returns late Friday night and Saturday with temperatures well into the 50s on Saturday and i ...
MULTI-AGENCY SWEEP NETS 12 ON VARIOUS DRUG CHARGES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY
Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were part of this week’s multi-agency roundup in Franklin County that resulted in the arrest of 12 people o ...
PHILIP CHARLES SHENCAVITZ, AGE 74
Funeral services for Philip Charles Shencavitz, age 74, of Crossville, will be Saturday, January 19, at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 28 Rock Quarry Road in Crossville. Family will receive frie ...
UTIA’S TYSON RAPER NAMED EXTENSION COTTON SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR
Tyson Raper, an assistant professor of cotton and small-grain production with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, is the 2019 Beltwide Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year. The aw ...
HIGHWAY ADVISORY ON I-40 EASTBOUND
There is an overturned tractor trailer on Interstate 40 eastbound at mile marker 341. Rockwood Mountain traffic is at a standstill at this time. Please use caution in this area and consider an alterna ...
ALABAMA VETERINARY STUDENT ARRESTED FOR SELLING RESCUE HORSES TO SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN MEXICO
A third-year veterinary school student in Alabama was arrested Saturday after allegedly promising to care for rescue horses but instead selling them to slaughterhouses in Mexico. Fallon Blackwood, ...
SCORE CITES ACHIEVEMENTS, QUALIFICATIONS OF NEW COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
David Mansouri, president and CEO of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, released a statement about the selection of Dr. Penny Schwinn as Tennessee’s next commissioner of education. “Pe ...
ALABAMA MAN REPEATEDLY STUFFED CHILD IN CLOTHES DRYER, TURNED IT ON
An Alabama man was arrested last week after being accused of trapping a young child in a clothes dryer on multiple occasions — and sometimes turning the machine on, authorities said. Steven Garret ...
BEST-SELLING TENNESSEE AUTHOR ACCUSES HUSBAND OF TRYING TO POISON HER
Williamson County authorities are investigating after Sherrilyn Kenyon, a best-selling fantasy author, accused her estranged husband of poisoning her. Kenyon, known for her “Dark Hunter” series, sa ...
TRAFFIC STOP TURNS INTO METH ARREST FOR CROSSVILLE MAN
Early Wednesday morning, Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies initiated a traffic stop on Cow Pen Road at Sandy Creek. The driver, 22-year-old Trevor William Mackie of Crossville, told deputies he doe ...
GLENN MILLER’S PLANE POSSIBLY UNCOVERED AFTER DISAPPEARING DURING WWII
The mystery behind what happened to Glenn Miller and his plane during World War II may finally be solved. People magazine recently reported a retired trawlerman from England is “utterly convinced” ...
JET POPS WHEELIE IN HEAVY ‘SIERRA CEMENT’ SNOW IN CALIFORNIA
Snow from a series of deadly storms slamming California this week was so heavy it upended a jet at an airport in the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday, as "life-threatening" blizzard conditions are expected ...
