FORT LOUDON WASTE & RECYCLING FIRE STARTED BY BACKFIRING FORKLIFT
Arson investigators have determined last week’s massive recycling-plant fire was started by a backfiring propane-fueled forklift. The machinery backfire ignited several pallets of loose paper. Knoxvi ...
DAD PUNCHED, KILLED MONTH-OLD SON AFTER LOSING VIDEO GAME
A 26-year-old father in Louisville, Kentucky, was so enraged when he lost a video game Friday night that he threw the video-game controller. Then Anthony Trice punched his one-month-old son in the hea ...
ROANE COUNTY DEPUTY ENCOUNTERS BLUNTLY HONEST MAN DURING TRAFFIC STOP
Early this morning, a Roane County deputy conducted a traffic stop for a light-law violation on Harriman Highway, near J.B. Cofer Lane. When he asked 55-year-old Fontaine David King for his driver’s l ...
TRAFFIC STOP NETS ARREST ON OUTSTANDING WARRANTS
Early Saturday morning, a Roane County deputy initiated a traffic stop on Harbin Drive. The driver, 44-year-old Larry Randall Green, said he didn’t have his driver’s license on him. His license was fo ...
LIGHT-LAW VIOLATION RESULTS IN SUSPENDED LICENSE ARREST IN ROANE COUNTY
Early Saturday morning, a Roane County deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Shenandoah Drive in Rockwood. The driver, 26-year-old William Dakota Stamps Hale, said his license was suspended ...
GARAGE/YARD SALE PERMITS REQUIRED IN THE CITY OF CROSSVILLE
Citizens in Crossville are reminded that yard sale permits are required for sales held within the city limits. Permits may be obtained in the City Clerk’s office, at City Hall, 392 North Main Street, ...
MELTON, DAGAN ARRESTED AFTER TRAFFIC STOP IN ROANE COUNTY
Friday morning, Roane County deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle whose driver was behaving erratically and whose registration came back to a different car. The driver, 54-year-old William L ...
MAN GRAZED BY CAR IN ROCKWOOD GROCERY STORE PARKING LOT
Rockwood police, fire and an ambulance responded to the North Gateway IGA around 12:15 today to investigate a report of a man struck by a car in the parking lot. Few details are available, but there w ...
MULTIPLE CHARGES LODGED AGAINST MONTEREY MAN AFTER PURSUIT
Sunday afternoon, Cumberland County deputies passed a vehicle headed eastbound on Highway 70 North; the subject vehicle had been reported stolen earlier in the day from Junior Camp Road. The driver wa ...
TAYLOR CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT OF FELLOW INMATE
At 7:30 Sunday morning, deputies responded to an incident in the Cumberland County jail. Thirty-year-old inmate Tiffani Lee Taylor struck another female inmate with a hard-plastic food tray, causing a ...
WOMAN SAID SON HIT HER WITH GOLF CLUB; DIDN’T MENTION SHE CHOKED HIM FIRST
Responding to a domestic-assault call Saturday night, Cumberland County deputies encountered 38-year-old Tiffany Nicole Warner of McMinnville, who claimed her son hit her with a golf club. What she n ...
HIGHWAY TRAVEL ADVISORY ON I-40 IN ROANE COUNTY
Motorists traveling westbound along Interstate 40 in Roane County are advised to be aware of high traffic volumes in the vicinity of mile marker 352. The issue causing the backup is expected to be cle ...
