SUPREME COURT OVERRULES BIDEN’S VACCINE-OR-TEST MANDATE FOR BUSINESSES
The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the j ...
PICKETT COUNTY SCHOOLS CLOSE DOWN DUE TO SICKNESS
At least one area school district is being forced to close due to sickness throughout the school system. Pickett County announced yesterday they would not resume classes until next Tuesday. Classes ...
PROPOSED LAW WOULD PAY PARENTS TO SEND CHILD TO PRIVATE SCHOOL
Tennessee lawmakers have proposed a bill that would allow parents who disagree with COVID-19 protocols in their school district to remove their child from the school and use a voucher to attend a diff ...
SEVEN ARRESTED IN WHITE COUNTY DRUG BUST, OPERATION “DUAL”
"I’m not going to tolerate people doing drugs in White County,” Those are the words of White County Sheriff Steve Page after his department along with Sparta Police took down seven suspects in a drug ...
MAN GETS VIOLENT AT ROANE MEDICAL CENTER, PUNCHES NURSE
A man allegedly punched a nurse at Roane Medical Center on Friday. The suspect, identified as Vincent Earl Diggs of Smyrna, Georgia, was reportedly about to undergo a CT scan. Nurse Cooper stated whil ...
CRACKER BARREL TO PAY MILLIONS AFTER SERVING MAN CLEANER INSTEAD OF WATER
A jury in Marion County, Tennessee, has ordered the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain to pay a man millions of dollars after it ruled the company was at fault when he was served something besides the gl ...
Edwin Gaines “Burger” Lansford, Jr., 66
Funeral Services for Edwin Gaines “Burger” Lansford, Jr., age 66, of Crossville, TN, who passed away on January 9, 2022, will be held on Sunday, January 16, 2022, at 3:00 PM at the Chapel at Bilbrey F ...
RAIN AND SNOW THIS WEEKEND
We have a weather system coming up this weekend that the weather service is calling a nightmare to forecast because the models are in big disagreement on it but it does look like we will get rain and ...
CUMBERLAND CO SHERIFF CASEY COX ELECTED VICE-CHAIR OF MULTI-STATE DRUG COALITION
London, KY: The Executive Director of Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA), Vic Brown, has announced that Casey Cox, Sheriff of Cumberland County, Tennessee, has been unanimously e ...
MEDIC: BLOOD DONATIONS DESPERATELY NEEDED NOW
A joint statement was released earlier at the national level encouraging the public to donate during this unprecedented blood shortage crisis. MEDIC Regional Blood Center is urging donors in the East ...
MIDDLE – EAST TENNESSEE RANKS HIGHEST IN NATION FOR FLU CASES
Tennessee ranks third in the country for flu cases, according to Walgreen's Flu Index, which provides information on the number of incidences in an area using retail prescription data. The state of Te ...
SEVERAL BEAR SIGHTINGS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE LATELY
Multiple bear sightings have been reported in the Alpine area of Overton County over the last few weeks. TWRA Outreach and Communications Coordinator Mime Barnes said that bear sightings in the Upper ...
