UPDATE: SHOTGUN-WIELDING SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER SHOT BY PIGEON FORGE POLICE AFTER CHASE
We now have the identity of the shotgun-wielding suspect shot in Sevier County early this morning. The TBI says 18-year-old Johnathon A. Sellers, suspected of DUI, led officers in pursuit along U.S ...
CHATTANOOGA POLICE OFFICER FIRED FOR “INSUBORDINATION & UNTRUTHFULNESS”
Chattanooga Police confirm an officer has been fired for "insubordination and untruthfulness." Chattanooga Police Department spokeswoman Elisa Myzal says Cameka Bruce was fired January 31. She was ...
POSTHUMOUS DR. SEUSS BOOK SLATED FOR RELEASE SEPT. 3
There is no muse like the Seuss. An unfinished manuscript by late children's author Dr. Seuss is the basis for Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum, due out September 3. According to Random House Children’s Bo ...
DEFENSELESS PICKETT COUNTY WOMAN DIES AFTER BRUTAL ATTACK BY PACK OF DOGS
Authorities in Pickett County say an elderly woman died Wednesday following an attack by a pack of dogs the day before. Pickett County Sheriff Dana Dowdy confirmed 88-year-old Bessie “Jill” Peterso ...
FORMER PASTOR FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING ADOPTED DAUGHTER
A onetime Lenoir City pastor has been convicted of repeatedly raping one of his adopted daughters. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, David Lynn Richards, Jr., the former pastor of My Father ...
NATION’S OLDEST LIVING GIRAFFE, PATCHES, DIES AT ZOO KNOXVILLE
The oldest reticulated giraffe in the United States has died. Patches, who was born at Zoo Knoxville in 1987, had lived there her entire life. A team from the University of Tennessee College of Veteri ...
UPDATE: ALL LANES ON PARKWAY REOPENED AFTER OVERNIGHT SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
All lanes of the Parkway (U.S. Highway 441) have been reopened to traffic along the Pigeon Forge/Sevierville line, after an overnight officer-involved shooting. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigatio ...
TBI INVESTIGATES OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN SEVIERVILLE, PARKWAY CLOSED
U.S. Highway 441 (the Parkway) has been temporarily closed at the Sevierville/Pigeon Forge city limits as TBI investigates an officer-involved shooting overnight. The shooting occurred near Apple Vall ...
ROCKWOOD MAN ARRESTED FOR AUTO THEFT; VEHICLE FOUND CRUSHED AT SCRAP-METAL YARD
Roane County deputies received a report of a stolen vehicle earlier this week. A gold 1979 MG Midget was reported seen at a local scrap-metal yard, after having been missing for about two weeks from a ...
STOLEN TRUCK RECOVERED IN ROANE COUNTY
Tuesday night, Roane County deputies responded to a reported vehicle theft. The owner said he’d entrusted 45-year-old James Allen Miles to put gas in his truck February 5 and bring it back that day. M ...
K-9 “SNIFFER” DEMONSTRATES FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD
The Cumberland County Board of Education got a demonstration of a K-9 “sniffer” Thursday night. Representatives from Interquest Detection Canines brought in a canine used in the detection of drugs, gu ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY BOE VOTES TO ALLOW PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENT TO PLAY MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS
The Cumberland County Board of Education addressed a problem which has come before their group in the past: whether or not a privately-schooled student should be allowed to play on a middle-school tea ...
