BOBBIE RUTH (GROCE) ELDER, AGE 82
Funeral services for Bobbie Ruth (Groce) Elder, age 82, of Murfreesboro, formerly of Byrdstown, Tennessee, will be Saturday, May 4, at 2 p.m. at Byrdstown First Baptist Church, with burial to follow i ...
MARGIE EDITH WIGHTMAN, AGE 80
Funeral services for Margie Edith Wightman, age 80, of Crossville, will be Thursday, May 2, at 1 p.m. at Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Crossville City Cemetery. Family will receive fr ...
MILLARD WEBSTER SELLS, AGE 93
Funeral services for Millard Webster Sells, age 93, of Albany, Kentucky, will be Wednesday, May 1, at 2 p.m. at Brown Funeral Chapel, with burial to follow in Van’s Branch-Government Cemetery. Family ...
STELLA HODGIN, AGE 87
Funeral services for Stella Hodgin, age 87, of Crossville, will be Tuesday, April 30 at 3 p.m. at Bilbrey Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Crossville City Cemetery. Family will receive friends T ...
JOINT TASK FORCE CONDUCTS PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDING SOUTH CUMBERLAND PLOT
Few additional details were released at this afternoon’s press conference by members of the Multi-Jurisdictional Threat Assessment Team regarding the two sixth-grade students who’d plotted to shoot up ...
MELTON ARRESTED FOR DUI IN ROANE COUNTY SATURDAY MORNING
Early Saturday morning, Roane County deputies noticed a vehicle on Highway 27 whose tag lights were not working. It was also drifting in the lane and traveling over the fog line. Deputies pulled the ...
CRIMINAL TIP: IF YOU’VE GOT AN ACTIVE WARRANT, DON’T GO VISITING INMATES
Around 11:15 Friday morning, Roane County deputies were advised 30-year-old James Bradley Poole was at the detention center to visit an inmate. Poole, who had an active warrant for violation of proba ...
PARTLY CLOUDY AND WARM
We have a good-looking weather pattern that's going to continue through Wednesday with fair to partly cloudy skies, just some patches of clouds drifting through from time to time. Afternoon high tempe ...
TEEN GRADUATES HIGH SCHOOL, DIES FROM HEART FAILURE TWO DAYS LATER
A Johnson City teen with an aggressive form of muscular dystrophy fulfilled his dream of graduating from high school, just two days before his death. Dakota Johnson had been taught at home since the ...
WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE GOTTI’S STEPDAUGHTER ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION
Early Saturday morning, a Cumberland County deputy with a quirky sense of humor was called to the lobby of the justice center for an unruly woman. When he arrived, 41-year-old Misty Dawn Hancock of Cr ...
DIY’S BARNWOOD BUILDERS FILMS SEGMENT IN COOKEVILLE
According to a Facebook post from Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton, the crew from DIY's Barnwood Builders spent the past few days in Cookeville. The crew joined John Owens’ Dry Levee Salvage to reconst ...
MAN TIES WOMAN TO SMOKER, SQUEEZES INFANT INTO UNRESPONSIVENESS
Late Saturday night, Knoxville police responded to a bizarre incident on Lilac Avenue in which a man reportedly tied the mother of his child to a hot smoker, saying he “wanted to see her burn,” before ...
