FENTRESS COUNTY MAN CONVICTED OF CHILD RAPE AND INCEST
A Fentress County jury has found Ronnie Lee Clayborn of Jamestown guilty of rape of a child and incest following a two day trial. Fentress County Criminal Court Judge E. Shayne Sexton revoked Clayborn ...
BILL PROPOSED NOW TO REPEAL HANDS-FREE DRIVING LAW IN TENNESSEE
Tennessee Senator Jon Lundberg has proposed an end to the hands-free cellphone driving law. The law, which went into effect July 2019, prohibits the use of hand-held cellphones and devices while drivi ...
DEATH ROW INMATE IN TENNESSEE SELECTS ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR EXECUTION METHOD
Tennessee death row inmate Nick Sutton has chosen the electric chair as his execution method. Sutton was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his grandmother in 1979, when he was 18 years old. He ...
CLAY COUNTY SCHOOLS CLOSE UNTIL JAN. 27 BECAUSE OF FLU
Clay County Schools will close for the rest of the week and Monday (January 27, 2020) for health reasons. Classes will resume Tuesday, January 28. Officials said the closure is because of widespread f ...
SIX CHILDREN PASS AWAY FROM FLU SO FAR THIS SEASON IN TENNESSEE
The Tennessee Department of Health says the number of pediatric deaths from the flu has risen to six so far this season. Four of the deaths reportedly happened to children in the eastern half of the s ...
TBI ISSUES AMBER ALERT FOR MISSING 4-MONTH-OLD FROM LEBANON
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an AMBER ALERT for a missing child from Lebanon, Tennessee. Police need your help finding 4-month-old Raymond Lyons, Jr. believed to have been kidnappe ...
VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 27 IN ROCKWOOD SENDS ONE TO HOSPITAL
A two vehicle accident in Rockwood yesterday afternoon resulted in one injury. Officers say an automobile driven by 39-year-old Jason Stansbury of Kingston was struck by a vehicle operated by 52-year- ...
HARRIMAN CITY COUNCILMAN DARYL COOK RESIGNS
Harriman city council members got a surprise last night as Mayor Wayne Best read a letter of resignation from now former member Daryl Cook. No specific reason was in the letter as to why he resigned b ...
DISTURBANCE AT URGENT CARE BUSINESS IN CROSSVILLE SENDS ONE TO JAIL
Crossville police responded yesterday morning to Fast Pace Urgent Care on Main Street for a disturbance. The arrest report states 49-year-old David James Flockencier of Sparta was not supposed to be w ...
TRIAL DATE SET FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT
A trial date was set in Cumberland County Criminal Court this morning for an elderly man charged with double first-degree murder. Authorities say 75-year-old Warren John Nostrom is accused of fatally ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY DOUBLE MURDER CASE HEARD IN CRIMINAL COURT
The case against a Cumberland County double murder suspect was heard in criminal court this morning. Court documents state 46-year-old John Patrick Fields of Pikeville additionally faces charges of ag ...
NEWS FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING – JAN. 21, 2020
The Cumberland County Commission met last night (January 21, 2020): COLLEEN MALL SELECTED AS NEW 9TH DISTRICT COUNTY COMMISSIONER Last month, the resignation of now former Ninth District County Comm ...
