ROANE COUNTY REMEMBERS LATE COMMISSIONER
Former Roane County Commissioner Jerry Goddard passed away last Thursday at the age of 72. He was laid to rest at Roane Memorial Gardens in Rockwood this weekend with honors as local fire-department p ...
UPDATE ON ROANE COUNTY ROAD CLOSURES
Old Airport Road on Rockwood Mountain, connecting Morgan and Cumberland counties, could be closed for months, according to Roane County Road Superintendent Dennis Ferguson. A recent tour of damaged ro ...
ROANE COUNTY COMMISSION TO MEET TONIGHT
The Roane County Commission is scheduled to meet this evening at 7 at the courthouse in Kingston. Among items to be discussed will be several budget amendments. The Commission will also recognize the ...
DISORIENTED MAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF LEGEND DRUG AFTER BEING FOUND ALONG I-40
Late Sunday night, deputies were dispatched to Interstate 40 westbound near the 360 exit for a report of a man on the side of the interstate. The man, 51-year-old Homer Samuel Ivey, was unsteady on hi ...
WEATHER-RELATED PARK CLOSURES FOR MONDAY, MARCH 11
In Crossville, Centennial Park and Duer Soccer Field will both be closed today due to weather-related field conditions in the wake of this past weekend's rains.
MULTI-VEHICLE WRECK ON U.S. HIGHWAY 127 AT CRACKER BARREL
Motorists are advised to use extreme caution traveling along U.S. Highway 127 just south of I-40. There is a multiple-vehicle wreck at the traffic light involving at least five vehicles. Multiple inju ...
EIGHT YOUTHS INJURED IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHURCH-BUS CRASH
Eight boys from Parrans Chapel Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, were sent to hospitals after a church bus crashed in Fairview. The bus, borrowed from Dixie Hills Baptist Church, overturned on ...
WOMAN CHARGED WITH DUI AFTER CRASHING INTO SCHOOL BUS
Deputies in Grundy County say a local woman faces charges after crashing her car into a Grundy County Head Start bus on Highway 108 in Altamont Friday afternoon. Thirty-five-year-old Shannon Hargis ...
PRESIDENT BUSH TO SPEAK AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY THIS EVENING
Former President George W. Bush will speak tonight at Vanderbilt University, along with Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and presidential historian Jon Meacham. Meacham is endowed chair and vi ...
SULLIVAN COUNTY RECYCLING PLANT CLOSING; KNOXVILLE NOW CLOSEST FACILITY
When Tri-Cities Waste Paper in Kingsport closes Friday, it’ll leave Sullivan County without a plant to handle paper and plastic recycling. Asheville Waste Paper, Tri-Cities’ parent company, has not c ...
KENTUCKY MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD
The Wayne County, Kentucky, Sheriff's Office announced late last week an Albany, Kentucky, man was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a child. Aiden H. Fields was arrested on a Cumberland Co ...
KINGSTON WWII VETERAN OFFICIALLY ACCOUNTED FOR SEVENTY YEARS LATER
It took 74 years, but 24-year-old Army PFC William F. Delaney’s remains have finally been accounted for. The Kingston, Tennessee, native was officially accounted for December 17, 2018, according to th ...
