
H.K. WOODY III, AGE 69
Funeral services for H.K. Woody III, age 69, of Crossville, will be Wednesday, April 17, at 3 p.m. at Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Creston Cemetery. Family will receive friends Tuesd ...

WILLIAM JAMES VASTANO, AGE 71
Funeral services for William James Vastano, age 71, of Byrdstown, will be Wednesday, April 17, at 2 p.m. at Brown Funeral Chapel. Family will receive friends Wednesday, from 10 a.m. until the time of ...

MICHAEL A. VARHOLICK, AGE 81
Funeral services for Michael A. Varholick, age 81, of Crossville, will be Wednesday, April 17, at 11 a.m. at First Congregational Church, with burial to follow Monday, April 22, at 9:30 a.m., in East ...

WOMAN USING OXYGEN WHILE SMOKING SETS HERSELF ON FIRE
A Kingston woman was seriously injured this morning, according to Kingston Fire Department sources. Just before 4 a.m., the unidentified woman, who was smoking while using oxygen, caught herself on fi ...

RON SHERRILL, CRYSTAL SMITH ARRESTED ON DRUG, WEAPONS CHARGES
Friday morning, Cumberland County deputies executing a narcotics search warrant on a home on Old Mail Road turned up more than just drugs. Aside from several containers of meth, deputies discovered s ...

SUNNY AND WARMER TUESDAY
Temperatures dropped to 33 degrees in Crossville and Monterey on Monday morning. Clear skies and near 40° expected for tonight. Tuesday is going to be an outstanding day with lots of sunshine and high ...

STOLEN VEHICLE RECOVERED SOUTH OF ROCKWOOD THIS MORNING
The Roane County Sheriff’s Department retrieved a stolen car from Kingston around 7:30 this morning – but not until it was found in the water on Eagle Furnace Road, south of Rockwood. A sergeant with ...

ROANE COUNTY WOMAN SENTENCED IN ATTEMPTED HIT ON EX-BOYFRIEND
A Roane County woman was sentenced last week after pleading guilty last year to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend. Laura Buckingham was sentenced to 10 years' supervised probation and w ...

TWO RETIRED ROCKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS INJURED IN SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH
Rockwood fire, police and EMS responded to a single-vehicle wreck early Saturday evening. Two elderly women were injured when the car they were in went down the embankment across from the Barrington P ...

UPCOMING MEETINGS SLATED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Beer Board Meeting on Monday, April 15, at 5 p.m. in the large meeting room of the courthouse Monthly Cumberland County Commission Meeting on Monday, April 15, at 6 p.m. in the large meeting room of ...

FIRE AT WAYNE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, JAIL STARTED BY INMATES
Saturday night, April 13, at 9:24 p.m., Wayne County, Kentucky, deputies were called to the Wayne County Detention Center to assist detention center personnel with investigating a fire started in a ce ...

KNOXVILLE POLICE SEEK ASSISTANCE IN FINDING FATAL HIT-AND-RUN SUSPECT
The Knoxville Police Department is asking the public to help them find 55-year-old Juan Francisco, a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run last Monday, April 8. Francisco, a Knoxville resident, was said to ...