UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 25,284 active cases (UP 187) in Tennessee out of 803,104 total cases (UP 1,459) •777,820 recovered ( ...
SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST CUMBERLAND COUNTY SETTLED FOR $1.1 MILLION
According to a consent decree filed in court today, Cumberland County has agreed to $1.1 million settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice regarding former solid ...
BIDEN CALLS ON SENATE TO PASS GUN CONTROL MEASURES ‘IMMEDIATELY’ AFTER BOULDER SHOOTING
(DEVELOPING STORY) - President Joe Biden today implored the Senate to pass new gun control measures in the wake of a mass shooting that left 10 dead in Boulder, Colorado yesterday. Biden said he didn ...
SHILLINGS ARRESTED FOR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Law enforcement in Roane County took 46-year-old Walter Blake Shillings of Harriman into custody over the weekend. Court documents obtained today state Shillings knowingly failed to provide his 10-yea ...
SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER RAMMING LAW ENFORCEMENT CRUISERS WITH A U-HAUL
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded last Friday (March 19, 2021) to a suspicious U-Haul truck backed in at the Dollar General on Smithville Highway. While officers attempted to identify ...
POLICE: WINDOW BUSTED OUT OF THIRD VEHICLE WITHIN A WEEK
Police officers in Crossville went to the parking lot of the community complex Monday night for a vehicle burglary. A 2000 Mitsubishi had the rear passenger window busted out. Nothing of value appeare ...
ANOTHER DRUG ARREST MADE AT EXECUTIVE INN
Crossville police responded Monday to Executive Inn on Highway 127 just north of I-40 after an employee noticed several people in and out of a second floor room. A check of the suspect inside, 46-year ...
HOME REPORTED BURGLARIZED ON PIG PATH ROAD
Cumberland County law enforcement went to a home on Pig Path Road Monday for a burglary. The report states a window was broken on the front porch and was the likely entry point. The victims will compi ...
ROAD CONSTRUCTION BACKING UP TRAFFIC ON I-40 WESTBOUND
(11:10 a.m. central Tuesday, March 23, 2021) - There is road construction going on in between the 310 mile marker (just west of Plateau Road) west to near the Cumberland/Putnam County Line. Westbound ...
BOULDER GROCERY STORE MASSACRE LEAVES 10 DEAD INCLUDING POLICE OFFICER, SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
(insert photo is Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley) Ten people were killed, including a veteran police officer, during a mass shooting yesterday inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. The off ...
KAREN SUE SHEPHERD, AGE 76
Karen Sue Shepherd, age 76, of Crossville, passed away March 19, 2021. She is survived by her husband: Junior Shepherd; children: Johnnie Shepherd, Mike Shepherd (Debbie), Billy Shepherd, and Cathy Sh ...
TRANSGENDER SPORTS BILL PASSES TENNESSEE HOUSE, HEADING TO GOVERNOR FOR SIGNATURE
A transgender sports bill requiring students to prove their sex at birth in order to play middle and high school sports is heading to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee‘s desk to be signed into law. The bill ...
