GOVERNOR TAKES EXECUTIVE ACTION IN FLOOD-RECOVERY EFFORTS
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has taken executive action in response to the severe weather and historic rainfall and flooding from February. Under an executive order Lee signed Thursday to enable mor ...
PROPOSED BILL COULD EXEMPT SOME CONVICTED KILLERS FROM THE DEATH PENALTY
A Knoxville lawmaker sponsored a new bill that would exempt convicted killers suffering from severe mental illness from the death penalty. The bill would exempt someone from being sentenced to deat ...
SPRING AHEAD THIS WEEKEND
Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday. And there’s been a lot of chatter lately about a potential end to the twice-yearly time change. However, according to State Representative Cameron Sexton, you ...
THP ISSUES PRELIMINARY REPORT ON SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH THURSDAY MORNING
Thursday morning, approximately 7:30 a.m., 28-year-old Randy James Wheeler of Crossville was headed south on Glade Creek Road in Cumberland County when his vehicle ran off the roadway twice before str ...
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEMP AND WEED? TBI CAN’T DETERMINE THAT JUST YET
The booming hemp industry is making officers' jobs harder because it's so difficult to differentiate between hemp and weed. Ben Cort, the author of the book Weed Inc., opposes legalizing marijuana. ...
COMMUNITY REMEMBERS ZAEVION DOBSON WITH 4TH ANNUAL ‘SKATE FOR ZAE’ EVENT
Next Sunday, hundreds of area residents in Knoxville will gather to remember a local hero. Fulton High School sophomore Zaevion William Dobson was just 15 years old December 17, 2015, when he died ...
REHABILITATION HOSPITAL COMING TO KNOXVILLE IN 2021
On the heels of Brookhaven Retreat’s closure earlier this week, three local healthcare providers have announced plans to team up on a rehabilitation facility in Knoxville. Tennova Healthcare, the U ...
NOW COMES THE RAIN AGAIN
A chance of scattered showers tonight with rain likely on Friday and showers and thunder showers likely on Saturday and Saturday night. Not a good start to the weekend but I think Sunday will bring mu ...
UPDATE: MISSING RUGBY TEEN FOUND
This just in to the 1057 Newsroom: Sixteen-year-old Madison Dillard has been found. We have no details yet other than the teenager has been found.
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENTS & NEW JOBS ANNOUNCED IN RHEA, SEQUATCHIE COUNTIES
More than 300 jobs and $11 million in investments are coming to rural towns in East Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee and the Department of Economic and Community Development announced Wednesday two sep ...
MORGAN COUNTY AUTHORITIES SEEKING MISSING RUGBY TEEN
Sixteen-year-old Madison Dillard has been missing since Sunday, March 3, sometime between 2 and 8 a.m. Her mother said she had to have left with someone in a car, as Rugby is “in the middle of nowhere ...
BOBBY EARL BARNES, AGE 67
Funeral services for Bobby Earl Barnes, age 67, of Crossville, will be Sunday, March 10, at 1 p.m. at Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Crossville City Cemetery. Family will receive frien ...
