
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 81,529 active cases (down 6,957 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 660,874 total cases. •579,345 re ...

BETTY J. THOMAN, AGE 95
Betty J. Thoman, age 95, of Kingston, passed away January 10, 2021 at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. She was born September 6, 1925 in Fayette County, Illinois and is the daughter of Marion an ...

DR. CORA ELLEN NORMAN, AGE 94
Memorial services will be held at a later date for Dr. Cora Ellen Norman, age 94, of Crossville, who passed away January 11, 2021. Survivors include daughter: Judy Elgin (Phil); son: Robert Norman (Br ...

SILVER ALERT ISSUED FOR MISSING WOMAN WHO MAY BE HEADING TO KNOXVILLE
Franklin, Tennessee police issued a silver alert today for a woman who may be traveling to Knox County. It is for 88-year-old Billie Suitt Wellons who has been missing since Sunday. She may be traveli ...

MONTEREY COUPLE ARRESTED FOR METH TRAFFICKING
Donny and Ashley Jones of Monterey were arrested by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office following an investigation for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine. In the early morning hours of Sa ...

CROSSVILLE POLICE AND MEDICS RESPOND TO VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON COOK ROAD
Crossville police and medics responded to a single vehicle accident around 5:30 p.m. yesterday on Cook Road. An orange 2015 Jeep Renegade driven by Krystal V. Kirby of Crossville was traveling east wh ...

STOLEN VEHICLE FROM FLORIDA RECOVERED IN CROSSVILLE
While on patrol yesterday on Genesis Road near I-40, a police officer in Crossville ran the tag of a vehicle driven by a suspicious subject. The check of the van came back taken without permission in ...

MORSE, CRUZ AND ARNOLD INDICTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
A Cumberland County grand jury yesterday indicted three for first-degree murder in different cases. Court documents state 20-year-old Robert David Morse stands accused of the fatal shooting of 20-yea ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE LOOKING FOR MORE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAMS
Since 1998, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department has partnered with neighborhood watch programs. It started with 13 groups but fell to only one in Fairfield Glade in 2003. Now there are 70 small ...

SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING CUMBERLAND COUNTY TEENAGER
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department continues to search for a missing teenager. Haley Brewer, age 16, stands 5’1 and has brown hair and eyes. It is unknown what clothing she was wearing at the ...

ROBERT J. GRIFFIN, AGE 83
Robert (Bob) Joseph Griffin was born March 27, 1937, in Salem, Massachusetts, the youngest child of three children of John and Alice Griffin, descendants of County Waterford, Ireland. He was blessed b ...

MARY KATHERINE WHITE THOMAS, AGE 92
Mary Katherine White Thomas, age 92, of Kingston, passed away peacefully at her home January 10, 2021 after a lengthy illness. Mary was the youngest daughter of Sallie (Marcum) and John D. White. She ...