BREAKING NEWS – MAN DIES AFTER BEING TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN ROANE COUNTY
(BREAKING NEWS – Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton says a Caucasian male brought to the jail by Harriman police this morning was unresponsive upon arrival. The male was immediately taken to Roane Med ...
ARRESTS MADE IN PUTNAM COUNTY AFTER ATTEMPTED CARJACKING
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office responded yesterday to an attempted carjacking at the Corner Market Shell station at exit 273 on Interstate 40. Upon arrival, 20-year-old Thomas Johnson of Madison ...
KLIMCZCK ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF WITH AUTHORITIES ON WEBB AVENUE IN CROSSVILLE
The Crossville Police Department issued more details this morning of a standoff over the weekend. Authorities, along with a SWAT team, all converged on an apartment at 464 Webb Avenue Saturday afterno ...
TDEC UNVEILS NEW VISITORS CENTER AT FALL CREEK FALLS STATE PARK
Tennessee State Parks officials and legislators cut the ribbon to open a new Fall Creek Falls State Park Visitors Center, a $2.7 million, 4,800 square foot facility made possible by an investment by t ...
BROADBAND SERVICES COMING SOON TO CUMBERLAND COVE AREA OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
The state of Tennessee received last month over $25 billion in federal stimulus money from the CARES Act. Over $8 billion of those funds were allocated to the state government for discretionary use. L ...
ROANE COUNTY NATIVE RETURNS FROM DEPLOYMENT ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER
A 2007 Roane County High School graduate and Kingston native returned home this month, marking the end of a seven-month deployment aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Since departing its homepor ...
TROPICAL STORM MARCO WEAKENING; LAURA TO BECOME HURRICANE HEADING TOWARD GULF COAST
Tropical Storm Marco is weakening today (Monday, August 24, 2020) yet it still brings the risk of heavy rain, storm surge, strong winds and tornadoes as the system moves inland. Marco is forecast to ...
POLICE: MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS SHOT INSIDE LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY MALL
Three people were shot inside a Kentucky mall yesterday. The Lexington Police Department responded around 4 p.m. outside of a store at the Fayette Mall. Authorities said later that the shooting did n ...
NO IN PERSON CLASSES AUGUST 24, 2020 AFTER POSITIVE COVID-19 TESTS AT LENOIR CITY HIGH SCHOOL
There will be no in-person classes at Lenoir City High School today (Monday, August 24, 2020). Instruction would be online only for grades 9-12 because of positive COVID-19 tests. Assignments from tea ...
VERY WARM AND HUMID
It was another one of those summer days where one area just stays dry and sunny and the next County gets flooding. Parts of Roane County picked up 2 to 3 inches of rain Sunday evening from a storm whi ...
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 REPORT – SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: TENNESSEE – 39,883 (UP 1,226 cases from yesterday) active cases in Tennessee out of 143,937 total cases (UP 1,854 cases s ...
CHARLES GALLAHER, AGE 87
Charles Gallaher, age 87, of Kingston, passed away August 21, 2020. He was born August 8, 1933 in Rockwood and was a life long resident of Roane County. Charles was a member of Union Chapel Missionary ...
