CROSSVILLE RITE-AID CLOSING
The Crossville Rite-Aid Pharmacy will be closing on Feb. 18 with the remaining store operation to close March 1. Walgreens acquired Rite-Aid Pharmacies in 2018 and has systematically been closing them ...
$50,000 LOTTERY WIN IN LIVINGSTON
Tennessee Lottery Officials have announced their latest winner comes from Livingston. Wednesday night, the as-yet-unidentified person won the $50,000 prize by matching four of the five white numbers p ...
NO SCHOOL ON MKJ HOLIDAY; GOVERNMENT OFFICES CLOSED
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, January 21, both Cumberland and Roane County Schools will be closed. Regular classes will resume Tuesday, January 22. All city and county offices w ...
PERDUE RECALLS THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF CHICKEN NUGGETS
Chicken nugget lovers beware! Georgia-based Perdue Foods has recalled over 68,000 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken nuggets that may be contaminated with wood chips. The announcement was issued Thursday ...
MULTI-AGENCY SWEEP NETS 12 ON VARIOUS DRUG CHARGES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY
Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were part of this week’s multi-agency roundup in Franklin County that resulted in the arrest of 12 people o ...
PHILIP CHARLES SHENCAVITZ, AGE 74
Funeral services for Philip Charles Shencavitz, age 74, of Crossville, will be Saturday, January 19, at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 28 Rock Quarry Road in Crossville. Family will receive frie ...
UTIA’S TYSON RAPER NAMED EXTENSION COTTON SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR
Tyson Raper, an assistant professor of cotton and small-grain production with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, is the 2019 Beltwide Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year. The aw ...
HIGHWAY ADVISORY ON I-40 EASTBOUND
There is an overturned tractor trailer on Interstate 40 eastbound at mile marker 341. Rockwood Mountain traffic is at a standstill at this time. Please use caution in this area and consider an alterna ...
ALABAMA VETERINARY STUDENT ARRESTED FOR SELLING RESCUE HORSES TO SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN MEXICO
A third-year veterinary school student in Alabama was arrested Saturday after allegedly promising to care for rescue horses but instead selling them to slaughterhouses in Mexico. Fallon Blackwood, ...
SCORE CITES ACHIEVEMENTS, QUALIFICATIONS OF NEW COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
David Mansouri, president and CEO of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, released a statement about the selection of Dr. Penny Schwinn as Tennessee’s next commissioner of education. “Pe ...
ALABAMA MAN REPEATEDLY STUFFED CHILD IN CLOTHES DRYER, TURNED IT ON
An Alabama man was arrested last week after being accused of trapping a young child in a clothes dryer on multiple occasions — and sometimes turning the machine on, authorities said. Steven Garret ...
BEST-SELLING TENNESSEE AUTHOR ACCUSES HUSBAND OF TRYING TO POISON HER
Williamson County authorities are investigating after Sherrilyn Kenyon, a best-selling fantasy author, accused her estranged husband of poisoning her. Kenyon, known for her “Dark Hunter” series, sa ...
