STORM DAMAGE IN ROANE COUNTY EXCEEDS $3 MILLION
Roane County Road Superintendent Dennis Ferguson said Wednesday county roads have sustained at least $3 million in damage due to last weekend’s heavy rain and the resulting flooding. Ferguson said he ...
HOLT ARRESTED ON METH, FAILURE TO APPEAR CHARGES
Thursday evening, a Roane County deputy dispatched to Highway 70 in Rockwood encountered 43-year-old Scott Adam Holt, who was wanted on an outstanding warrant. As he was being arrested, Holt took off ...
FORMER OLIVER SPRINGS HOUSING AUTHORITY WORKER PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD
A former Oliver Springs Housing Authority employee pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville. Forty-four-year-old Melissa Eula May of Knoxville en ...
NEW NASHVILLE CLINIC SEEKS TO ‘DE-STIGMATIZE’ ABORTION
With locations already in the greater Washington, D.C. area, Chicago and Atlanta, a healthcare company that wraps itself in outspoken support of abortion today opened a new facility in Nashville. C ...
JO ANNE SMITH, AGE 70
Funeral services for Jo Anne Smith, age 70, of Crossville, will be Tuesday, March 5, at 1 p.m. at Crossville Memorial Funeral Home. Family will receive friends Tuesday from 12 to 1 p.m. at the funeral ...
ELSIE ROSE PACK, AGE 85
Funeral services for Elsie Rose Pack, age 85, of Crossville, will be Saturday, March 2, at 3 p.m. at Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Fredonia Cemetery. Family will receive friends Satur ...
UPDATE: SHOTGUN-WIELDING SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER SHOT BY PIGEON FORGE POLICE AFTER CHASE
We now have the identity of the shotgun-wielding suspect shot in Sevier County early this morning. The TBI says 18-year-old Johnathon A. Sellers, suspected of DUI, led officers in pursuit along U.S ...
CHATTANOOGA POLICE OFFICER FIRED FOR “INSUBORDINATION & UNTRUTHFULNESS”
Chattanooga Police confirm an officer has been fired for "insubordination and untruthfulness." Chattanooga Police Department spokeswoman Elisa Myzal says Cameka Bruce was fired January 31. She was ...
POSTHUMOUS DR. SEUSS BOOK SLATED FOR RELEASE SEPT. 3
There is no muse like the Seuss. An unfinished manuscript by late children's author Dr. Seuss is the basis for Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum, due out September 3. According to Random House Children’s Bo ...
DEFENSELESS PICKETT COUNTY WOMAN DIES AFTER BRUTAL ATTACK BY PACK OF DOGS
Authorities in Pickett County say an elderly woman died Wednesday following an attack by a pack of dogs the day before. Pickett County Sheriff Dana Dowdy confirmed 88-year-old Bessie “Jill” Peterso ...
FORMER PASTOR FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING ADOPTED DAUGHTER
A onetime Lenoir City pastor has been convicted of repeatedly raping one of his adopted daughters. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, David Lynn Richards, Jr., the former pastor of My Father ...
NATION’S OLDEST LIVING GIRAFFE, PATCHES, DIES AT ZOO KNOXVILLE
The oldest reticulated giraffe in the United States has died. Patches, who was born at Zoo Knoxville in 1987, had lived there her entire life. A team from the University of Tennessee College of Veteri ...
