
DRUG INDICTMENTS RESULTS IN ARREST OF NEARLY A DOZEN SUSPECTS
On July 13, 2021, agents with the 7th Judicial Crime Task Force completed a lengthy investigation of illicit drug sales in Oak Ridge by executing warrants following Anderson County grand jury indictme ...

“OPERATION SOUTHERN SHIELD” TO CRACK DOWN ON SPEEDING ON HIGHWAYS
Law enforcement in Cumberland County, including the highway patrol, will take part in Operation Southern Shield from July 19-23, 2021. It is in response to an increase in vehicle fatalities because of ...

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN FAIRFIELD GLADE STABBING
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department identified the suspect involved in a bloody dispute in Fairfield Glade last night. The incident took place at 105 Runnymeade Road. Law enforcement took 56-ye ...

SUMMER WELLS’ DAD SAYS HE DOESN’T EXPECT TO SEE HER ALIVE
Tennessee investigators have received roughly 1,000 tips in connection with the disappearance of 5-year-old Summer Wells from her Rogersville home last month. Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson said ...

KATHLEEN MARIE GILLEY, AGE 71
Kathleen Marie Gilley, age 71, was born to Clark and Laura Wilder Gilley October 3, 1949 in East Moline, Illinois. She passed away in Crossville, Tennessee July 14, 2021. She was a homemaker supportin ...

STABBING REPORTED ON WILSHIRE HILLS AREA OF FAIRFIELD GLADE
(DEVELOPING NEWS) – Fairfield Glade police responded at 8:15 p.m. last night to the Wilshire Hills area for a stabbing. At this time a suspect is in custody, and the victim has been transported to a t ...

UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: INFORMATION IN BOLD INDICATES RISES IN NUMBERS FROM DAY BEFORE. BLEDSOE – 12 remaining active remaining cases (down 1) o ...

RAIN LIKELY THIS WEEKEND
We will have scattered showers and thunderstorms through Friday and they are very likely again this weekend with chances at 90%. High temperatures are going to be in the mid-80s and the lows in the mi ...

TDOT PLANNING TO REPLACE I-40 BRIDGE OVER CLINCH RIVER IN KINGSTON
The Kingston City Council learned in their meeting this week TDOT has plans in the future to replace a large bridge over the Clinch River on I-40. It first came to light when City Manager David Bolli ...

TOLLETT AND YOUNG CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED RAPE OF A CHILD
Investigators with the District Attorney General’s Office, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the Monterey Police Department began to investigate allegations that 29-year-old Jeffery Lynn Tollett, ...

INJURY REPORTED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON WESTEL LOOP
Medics and deputies in Cumberland County responded to a single vehicle accident Monday on Westel Loop near Highway 70 East. Officers state in the report released today a 1997 GMC pickup driven by 18-y ...

CROSSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT ADDS NEW OFFICER
The Crossville Police Department is pleased to announce Steven McNeal has taken his oath of office. McNeal is a U.S. Army veteran and will begin his field training program immediately and will attend ...