
WET WEEKEND
The weekend is not looking good, rain will be off and on through Sunday and there could be a thundershower thrown in at any point. Afternoon high temperatures will be around 72 and dropping to near 60 ...

JULIE LONG NAMED PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY RISING
Cumberland County native Julie Long has been named the first program director of Cumberland County Rising, a county-based anti-drug coalition. CCR Board President Steve Stone announced the full-time ...

THEFT REPORTED FROM BOWMAN LOOP HOME IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
A Bowman Loop woman contacted Cumberland County deputies Tuesday evening about a theft of property from an outbuilding. She said several days earlier, a man had helped her get her car home after it b ...

TENNESSEE’S OLDEST TOWN GETS THE FASTEST BROADBAND
Jonesborough, Tennessee, is taking a massive leap forward, technologically speaking. It’s Tennessee’s oldest town and it’s only the sixth place in the country to get sizzling-fast 10-gig fiber optic ...

WANTED MAN ARRESTED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER PARKING LOT
If you were wanted by authorities, it seems the last place you’d want to be hanging about would be in front of the justice center. But 39-year-old Wesley Allen Massa of Crossville must not have consi ...

BENEFIT AUCTION/LUNCH FUNDRAISER FOR UNBORN BABY WITH SPINA BIFIDA
Tomorrow’s the day and the Knights of Columbus hall on Highway 70 East is the place. Family friends are sponsoring a fundraiser for Lucas and Leigh Ann Turner, to help defray the cost of medical expe ...

MARY HELEN (WATSON) SCOTT, AGE 77
Funeral services for Mary Helen (Watson) Scott, age 77, of Ashland, Kentucky, will be Saturday, May 11, at 1 p.m. at the Memory Chapel of Norris-New Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Ashlock Ceme ...

LOUDON COUNTY WOMAN PREVENTED ELDERLY WOMAN FROM BEING SCAMMED
When Jeri Batsford saw an elderly woman in a home-improvement store in Lenoir City about to buy two $1,000 gift cards – supposedly for her granddaughter in jail in Virginia – Batsford knew she had to ...

TEEN ARRESTED AFTER CHASE ENDS IN ANDERSON COUNTY
A 19-year-old man is sitting in Anderson County jail this morning on multiple charges after fleeing from a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, Clinton police and Anderson County deputies last night. TH ...

NEW BUSINESS FILINGS UP 9% IN TENNESSEE FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2019
New business filings for the first quarter of 2019 increased nine percent in Tennessee from 2018. The office of Secretary of State Tre Hargett says 12,512 new entity filings were recorded in the firs ...