FRIENDS OF THE TRAILS TO HOST FREE PICNIC FOR HIKERS, TRAIL BUILDERS
To celebrate the American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day, everyone is invited to hike the 1.7-mile Soldier’s Beach Trail, Saturday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. at Meadow Park. The hike will be follow ...
PARTLY SUNNY AND BREEZY
Tuesday is going to be partly sunny and hot and Breezy with a high temperature in the upper 80s and Southwest wind 10 to 20 miles an hour. Wednesday will be continued sunny and hot and then from Thurs ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY JOINS TBI VIOLENT CRIME TASK FORCE
Cumberland County Deputy Shawn Scott was sworn in as a member of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Violent Crimes Task Force earlier this month at Tennessee Bureau of Investigation headquarters in ...
THREE ATV RIDERS KILLED, ONE INJURED IN 100-FOOT PLUMMET OFF TRAIL
A hundred-foot crash sent three North Carolina ATV riders to their deaths Sunday afternoon and left a fourth injured in an Oliver Springs riding area. The Campbell County Sheriff’s Department said th ...
MEDIATION DEADLINE EXTENDED IN KINGSTON COAL-ASH FEDERAL SUIT
Lawyers for former employees at the 2008 Kingston coal-ash disaster-site cleanup and Texas-based Jacobs Engineering have been granted a two-month extension in their mediation efforts. The mediation se ...
TWO TEENS DEAD, TWO INJURED IN ROANE COUNTY WRECK SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has released details of a Sunday-afternoon crash in Roane County that killed two Harriman teenagers and injured two other teens. The crash took place about 2:20 p.m. on O ...
ANNUAL BLOUNT COUNTY MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM DRAWS 200+ ATTENDEES
More than 200 people attended the United Veterans of Blount County annual Memorial Day program Saturday. One of the soldiers remembered during the observance was Tennessee’s Lance Corporal Oscar Robe ...
INVASIVE TICK SPECIES FOUND IN TENNESSEE
State officials announced Friday an invasive tick species has been found in Tennessee. According to a release from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, the Asian longhorned tick has now spread to ...
HARDIN IN CUSTODY AFTER A WEEK ON THE RUN
After a little more than a week at large, George Edwin Hardin has been captured. The Clay County Sheriff’s Department reported Hardin was located and apprehended at 11:19 this morning by deputies. A ...
FIGHT LEADS TO AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, PUBLIC INTOXICATION CHARGES
Thursday night, Roane County deputies responded to a call about a fight at Jayro Apartments on Highway 70 in Harriman. They found 38-year-old Markeith Anthony Wright in the parking lot, smelling of al ...
ANNIE RUTH TWEEDY NORRIS, AGE 89
Funeral services for Annie Ruth Tweedy Norris, age 89, of Burkesville, Kentucky, will be Saturday, May 25, at 2 p.m. at the Memory Chapel of Norris-New Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Burkesvil ...
TDOT SAYS THERE’LL BE NO CONSTRUCTION DELAYS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Motorists traveling for the long Memorial Day weekend won’t find any construction delays. The Tennessee Department of Transportation has suspended all construction-related lane closures as of noon tod ...
