
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 25,692 active cases (down 566 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 768,946 total cases. •743,254 reco ...

PROPOSED TENNESSEE BILL MAY HELP CUT DOWN ON CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS
A proposed Tennessee law may help prevent thieves from stealing catalytic converters. State Bill 612/House Bill 1155 is sponsored by Senator Paul Bailey. If passed, it would require any individual or ...

TDOT STARTS REPAIRING POTHOLES CREATED BY WINTER STORM
Last week’s winter storm has created an abundance of potholes along interstates and state highways in Tennessee. TDOT is launching a massive effort using all available manpower to repair the damaged a ...

JOHN WAYNE HAMBY INDICTED FOR RAPE OF A CHILD
Cumberland County deputies went to a home on Price Loop near the Westel community yesterday to arrest 40-year-old John Wayne Hamby. He was indicted by a grand jury this week for rape of a child. The ...

DRIVER DECEASED IN TRAFFIC CRASH ON MILLER BYPASS IN CROSSVILLE
Crossville police says a traffic crash on Miller Bypass at 4:45 a.m. this morning was the apparent result of a suicide. The subject was driving a Nissan sedan northbound when he fatally shot himself. ...

DYAL ARRESTED AGAIN FOR VIOLATION OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY
Cumberland County authorities say 29-year-old Willie Dyal was taken into custody this week for violation of the sex offender registry. The sheriff’s office says Dyal has been booked into the jail 23 ...

UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 26,258 active cases (down 1,100 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 767,315 total cases. •741,057 re ...

FATALITY REPORTED IN VEHICLE CRASH ON HIGHWAY 70
A single vehicle accident last night on Highway 70 near Dogwood Valley Road in eastern Roane County claimed a life. The highway patrol says a 2001 Saturn operated by 60-year-old Richard C. Keil of Kno ...

NASHVILLE ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF MEIGS COUNTIAN
Nashville Metro Police say 59-year-old Lois Mader of Ten Mile in northern Meigs County lost her life in a vehicle accident near the I-24/I-65 split yesterday. Officers say her Jeep Wrangler was rear e ...

AIR MEDICAL HELICOPTERS CALLED TO SCENE OF VEHICLE CRASH
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and medics responded to Highway 411 at Mountain View Drive in Monroe County yesterday for a vehicle crash. The accident report states Vonore police was traveling south and ...

ANDERSON ACCUSED OF CUTTING NEIGHBOR’S HEART OUT, FEEDING IT TO HIS FAMILY
It sounds like something out of the movie “Silence of the Lambs” but this was very real and gruesome. Authorities say 42-year-old Lawrence Anderson in Oklahoma, suspected of murdering three people, h ...

KINGSTON YELLOW JACKETS WIN 4AA DISTRICT BASKETBALL TITLE
The 2021 TSSAA high school district basketball tournament continued last night (Tuesday, February 23, 2021). Here are scores of games of interest: GIRLS GAMES District 3 Oneida 57 Wartburg 44 - 3A ...