STUDENT ACCUSED OF CALLING IN BOMB THREAT TO PREVENT PARENTS FROM VISITING
One man really, really did not want to see his parents. An easyJet flight from Lyon to Rennes in France was turned around after a bomb threat was called in by a student who wanted to keep his parents ...
SHOT SHOW 2019: THESE ARE THE HOTTEST NEW BIG GUNS
Whether you’re on the hunt for a new truck and field gun, home defense, match-winning accuracy, the ultimate hunting rifle, a foldable shotgun or a Jason Bourne-worthy micro machine gun you strap onto ...
POLICE OFFICER’S DEATH RESULTED FROM ‘RUSSIAN ROULETTE’-STYLE GAME; FELLOW OFFICER CHARGED
A male St. Louis police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in this week’s shooting death of a female officer in what was described as a deadly game with a revolver, according to a ...
FREIGHT TRAIN SLAMS INTO SCHOOL BUS, KILLING STUDENT, 13, AND INJURING TWO OTHERS
A Union Pacific train slammed into a school bus on Friday in East Texas, killing a middle-school student and injuring the bus driver and another student, authorities said. The accident happened aroun ...
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN ‘TARGETED’ GEORGIA SHOOTINGS THAT KILLED 4
Georgia police launched a dragnet Thursday night for a 27-year-old man they say gunned down four people and wounded another man in a pair of “targeted” shootings. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ...
SOUTH CAROLINA BOY BEFRIENDS OFFICER AT CHICK-FIL-A
A South Carolina police officer made a new friend last week when a young boy thanked him for his service at a local Chick-fil-A. Terence Brister, an officer with the Greenville Police Department who ...
ALYA DEAN HANCOCK, AGE 88
Funeral services for Alya Dean Hancock, age 88, of Crossville, will be Sunday, January 27 at 6 p.m. at Hood Funeral Home, with graveside committal Monday, January 28 at 10 a.m. in Creston Cemetery. Vi ...
KENNETH MARSHALL LITTLE, AGE 72
Kenneth Marshall Little, age 72, of Hassler Loop in Byrdstown, passed away at home Friday, January 25. The family has chosen cremation with no memorial service planned at this time. He is survived by ...
NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULBS… TWO CHARGED IN THEFT FROM INVESTIGATOR’S HOME
If you’re going to steal items from a residence, make sure it’s not a law-enforcement officer’s home. That was the case for two individuals who tried to steal a four wheeler and other items from a Ki ...
THREE WEAPONS STOLEN FROM SKYLINE DRIVE RESIDENCE
A resident of Skyline Drive told Cumberland County deputies last night three of his guns were stolen over the weekend. The man said his girlfriend’s daughter and her boyfriend had stayed at the home w ...
LAWN EQUIPMENT REPORTED STOLEN FROM HIGHWAY 70 EAST RESIDENCE
A Cumberland County man contacted the sheriff’s office yesterday to report the theft of lawn equipment from a vacant property he owns on the 11000 block of Highway 70 East. Someone forced entry into t ...
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO SATURDAY NIGHT’S MURDER IN LAKE TANSI
In the ongoing investigation into the murder of Linda Damewood and the wounding of Andrew Schan and Ellen Cairns at 8610 Cherokee Trail in Lake Tansi last Saturday, Cumberland County Sheriff Casey Cox ...
