‘GIVE FOR PAT’ WEEK HONORS LEGENDARY COACH THROUGH BLOOD DONATIONS
MEDIC Regional Blood Center is rallying its donor base to help The Pat Summitt Foundation in its funding of organizations engaged in patient care, caregiver support and Alzheimer’s disease clinical re ...
MARSHA LORRAINE BEAN, AGE 56
Marsha Lorraine Bean, age 56 of Crossville, Tennessee, passed away peacefully at home, Friday, February 1, 2019, after a brief struggle with cancer. Marsha was born on November 1, 1962, in Crossville ...
SUSPECT CHARGED IN MORRISTOWN HIT-AND-RUN
Morristown Police say they have charged a Talbott man in connection with Saturday night’s hit-and-run crash that injured a pedestrian outside the Olive Garden restaurant on East Morris Boulevard. Aut ...
MORE THAN 700 SOLDIERS SLATED TO RETURN TO FORT CAMPBELL THIS MONTH
More than 700 soldiers are heading back to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, this month. The “Task Force Destiny” soldiers of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division are returning from a nin ...
FIRST-EVER ALL-FEMALE FLYOVER IN EAST TN FOR PIONEER NAVY CAPT. ROSEMARY MARINER
Military trailblazer Captain Rosemary Mariner of Anderson County was buried Saturday at New Loyston Cemetery in Maynardsville. She died January 24 at the age of 65, following a long battle with ovaria ...
GUILTY: DOTSON GETS LIFE IN PRISON – WITH NO PAROLE – FOR STARVING TODDLER SON TO DEATH
Matthew Dotson will spend the rest of his life in jail. A jury deliberated about an hour Friday evening before finding the 33-year-old Roane County man guilty of first-degree murder in the starvation ...
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY HOSTS REGIONAL ROBOTICS COMPETITION
Alumni Memorial Gym at Middle Tennessee State University was overrun Saturday with kids and robots. Knoxville-based TNFirst conducted its Tech Challenge Regional Robotics Competition in middle Tenne ...
MORRISTOWN POLICE SEARCH FOR SUSPECT IN HIT AND RUN CRASH INVOLVING PEDESTRIAN
Morristown police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a hit-and-run crash Saturday night involving a pedestrian. Police say a pedestrian was crossing East Morris Boulevard ne ...
DOLLY PARTON DINNER THEATER COMPANY ACQUIRES FEE HEDRICK ENTERTAINMENT
World Choice Investments will now run five attractions in Pigeon Forge, since the announcement Friday that Dolly Parton’s dinner theater-production business acquired Fee Hedrick Entertainment. Terms ...
STATE LAWMAKER WANTS TO MAKE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME YEAR-ROUND
If State Representative Rick Tillis has his way, the Volunteer State will end its practice of “springing ahead” and “falling back” each year for the switchover to and from Daylight Saving Time. Tilli ...
FORMER VOL TO PLAY IN HIS FIRST SUPER BOWL GAME
Former University of Tennessee Vol Cordarrelle Patterson will play in his first-ever Super Bowl game as a member of the New England Patriots on Sunday. Patterson, who played with the Vikings and then ...
MISSING SWEETWATER TEEN FOUND SAFE
Sweetwater police are not releasing any details yet, but they say 15-year-old Anneka Carver has been found safe. The Sweetwater teen had been missing since January 29, when she was seen getting into ...
