TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: TENNESSEE – 37,382 (down 631 cases from yesterday) active cases in Tennessee out of 145,417 total cases (up 813 cases sin ...
NRC FINES TVA FOR FIRING ENGINEERS WHO RAISED WATTS BAR SAFETY CONCERNS
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has fined the TVA more than $600,000 and banned one TVA executive from nuclear activities for five years. A recent investigation revealed TVA violated whistlebl ...
MULTIPLE FATALITIES REPORTED IN I-40 WRONG WAY CRASH IN COCKE COUNTY
The highway patrol says three people were killed and two others hurt in a wrong-way accident on I-40 in Cocke County yesterday. The report states a Ford Focus was traveling east in the westbound lanes ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY PRAYER VIGIL TO BE HELD AUGUST 29, 2020
The public is invited to attend the Cumberland County Prayer Vigil, Saturday, August 29, 2020 from 4:30 until 6 p.m. at the Crossville Amphitheater (in between the library and old courthouse in downto ...
BRUMBELOW, WILLIAMS AND SMITH INDICTED BY CUMBERLAND COUNTY GRAND JURY
A Cumberland County Grand Jury handed down indictments yesterday. Court documents state 71-year-old Eddie Maurice Brumbelow faces counts of reckless endangerment and a 6th DUI offense. In December 20 ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN HAND
A Cumberland County man accidentally shot himself in the hand yesterday. Deputies responded to Cumberland Medical Center and learned the subject in his early 30’s was trying to clean a Taurus 9mm hand ...
PHYLLIS BREYER, AGE 83
Phyllis Breyer, age 83, of Crossville, passed away August 21, 2020. She was born December 26, 1936 in West Frankfort, Illinois the daughter of Joseph and Angela Wiggins England. She worked many years ...
SEVERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN TENNESSEE GETS FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS
Today (August 25, 2020), the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) announced $22.6 million in federal grant funds to be distributed statewide from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration f ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM MOVES INTO YELLOW PHASE OF REOPENING PLAN DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The Cumberland County School System announced they are now in the yellow phase of the reopening plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. This means student movement throughout buildings will be minimized. C ...
DUMP TRUCK DRIVER SENTENCED AFTER 2016 CRASH THAT KILLED 4 IN MEIGS COUNTY
Judge Jeff Wicks has sentenced John Wesley Bennett to serve time in prison for a fatal hit and run crash in Meigs County back in 2016. Bennett pleaded guilty in December 2019 to eight charges related ...
BRADLEY COUNTY DEPUTIES SEARCHING FOR MISSING WOMAN
The Bradley County Sheriff's Department is asking for assistance in locating a 34-year-old woman they say may be in Hamilton, Rhea or Bledsoe County. Amber Renee Monday has been missing since August ...
MULTI-VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON I-40 IN PUTNAM COUNTY RESULTS IN INJURIES
A four vehicle accident last Friday (August 21, 2020) on I-40 in Putnam County left two hurt. In the report released this morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol says a 2000 Kenworth tractor-trailer ope ...
