
RUTH A. GARNER, AGE 93
Funeral services for Ruth A. Garner, age 93, of Burkesville, Kentucky, will be Wednesday, May 29, at 1 p.m. at Branham Grove Baptist Church, 3096 Modoc Road in Burkesville, with burial to follow in Br ...

SCHOOL BUS GRANTS ANNOUNCED BY STATE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation announced today 39 entities will receive $8,854,685.42 in grant funding to support school-bus replacement projects across Tennessee. Locally, t ...

BODY FOUND ON HIKING TRAIL
Approximately 11:15 Saturday morning, Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies and investigators were dispatched to the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail off Highway 68, where a hiker had discovered the b ...

KNIFE-WIELDING MAN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DOMESTIC ASSAULT
Sunday evening, Roane County deputies responded to a home on Clear Springs Road for a domestic call. They found 29-year-old Andrew Keith Ladd in the front yard. He said he’d gone to his parents’ home ...

DRUNK WOMAN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN CAMPSITE SHOOTING INCIDENT
Early Sunday morning, Roane County deputies were dispatched to Cove Point Road in Rockwood for an intoxicated woman who had pulled a gun, fired shots and threatened other campers. The arrest report s ...

CROSSVILLE MAN WRECKS CAR, WANDERS OFF, LEAVING DOG INSIDE
Friday night, Cumberland County deputies responding to a report of a motor-vehicle accident on Tabor Loop found a substantially damaged vehicle partially in the roadway and nobody around, except for a ...

HARDIN NOW IN CUSTODY AT CUMBERLAND COUNTY JAIL
Monday afternoon, Cumberland County deputies traveled to Livingston Hospital to retrieve 57-year-old George Edwin Hardin and return him to Cumberland County. Hardin had been taken into custody late Mo ...

TENNESSEE’S STATE PARKS OFFERING FREE, GUIDED HIKES JUNE 1
Tennessee's state parks are offering free ranger-guided hikes next Saturday. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation says all 56 state parks – including Cumberland Mountain State Par ...

EIGHT INMATES SENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER FIGHT AT MORGAN COUNTY FACILITY
Eight inmates were treated for minor injuries Monday night at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge after a melee in the Morgan County Correctional Complex. Tennessee Department of Correction Spokesm ...

MAN WANTED FOR STEALING GUITARS DOWN HIS PANTS TURNS HIMSELF IN
Guitar-store owners can breathe a sigh of relief. Hayden Snyder has turned himself in. Snyder is the music thief who admitted to stealing expensive guitars from several area music shops by stuffing t ...

RACIST SHOOTER GUILTY ON ALL 43 COUNTS; SENTENCING HEARING UNDERWAY
Emanuel Samson was found guilty Friday in the deadly 2017 church shooting in Antioch. And today his sentencing hearing is underway. Samson killed one woman and wounded several others when he began sh ...

U.T. POLICE, OFFICIALS BRACE FOR WHITE NATIONALIST EVENT ON CAMPUS
Security is high at the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, where a white nationalist’s speaking engagement is scheduled for this evening. Rick Tyler, a Polk County member of the American Fr ...