
ROCKWOOD CITY COUNCIL TAKES UP ISSUE OF BED & BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS
Rockwood City Council members decided Monday night to be proactive on bed and breakfast establishments that might seek to open there in the future. On first reading the council passed an ordinance to ...

HARRY BAILEY, AGE 73
Funeral services for Harry Bailey, age 73, of Crossville, will be Thursday, March 28, at 11 a.m. at Rinnie Baptist Church, with burial to follow in Rinnie Cemetery. Family will receive friends Wednesd ...

TENNESSEE TOPS NEW LIST FOR DEMENTIA-RELATED DEATHS IN U.S.
It’s a number-one ranking no one wants. Tennessee has the highest rate of dementia-linked deaths in the United States. The ranking, compiled by financial news and opinion company 24/7 Wall St., cam ...

CHILD ON BIKE FAILS TO STOP AT STOP SIGN, STRIKES SUV IN ROCKWOOD
Rockwood police were sent to the 600 block of South Chamberlain Avenue at Evans Street around 7 last night, where an 8-year-old bicyclist failed to stop at a stop sign on Evans Street and slammed into ...

GOOD SAMARITAN, DRIVER KILLED AFTER I-40 CRASH
The Knoxville Police Department said two people died after a crash Saturday on I-40 Eastbound near the Papermill exit. The police report indicates 23-year-old Sarah Kasunic of Pennsylvania crashed ...

EXTENSIVE TRAFFIC DELAYS IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ON I-40 THIS AFTERNOON
In Roane County, Interstate 40 is backed up with heavy traffic in both directions from Kingston to the I-75 split – between mile markers 353 and 365 – for roadwork. Delays are expected until about 5 p ...

ACCIDENT ON TAYLOR’S CHAPEL ROAD
Motorists are advised to use caution in the vicinity of Taylor's Chapel Road. There was an accident with possible injuries just reported in front of 1798 Taylor's Chapel Road. Emergency vehicles are e ...

FORMER VOL AND PRO-BASEBALL PLAYER TODD HELTON CHARGED WITH DUI
Former U.T. All-American and retired major-league baseball player Todd Helton was charged with DUI in Knox County last week after he left the roadway and struck a steel pole on Harvey Road. The Kno ...

CROSSVILLE CITY COUNCIL TO MEET IN SPECIAL SESSION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
The Crossville City Council will meet in a special session tomorrow, March 27, at 4:30 p.m., at Crossville City Hall to approve three consent-agenda items on second reading. They include ordinances am ...

I-40 TRAFFIC STOP NETS NEARLY TWO AND A HALF POUNDS OF POT
Cumberland County deputies conducted a traffic stop on a car at mile marker 317 on Interstate 40 Westbound last week for inoperable taillights. When asked if there was anything illegal in the vehicle, ...

GOOD LOOKING FORECAST
Tuesday is going to bring a clearing Trend with a high temperature in the mid to Upper 50s. Wednesday look for mostly sunny skies with a morning low near 32 but an afternoon High near 62. Sunshine con ...

THEFT REPORTED FROM ROCKWOOD HOME
A resident of Ashburn Drive in Rockwood contacted Cumberland County deputies to say he suspects his son and the son’s girlfriend of theft in the disappearance of several items from his late wife’s clo ...