UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 47,785 active cases (down 2,088 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 715,806 total cases. •668,021 re ...
TRAFFIC BACKUP REPORTED ON I-40 IN CROSSVILLE
(Conditions as of 2:45 p.m. central, Wednesday, January 27, 2021) - Crews are presently trying to remove a tractor trailer that crashed early this morning into a wooded area in the median of the 314 w ...
SHERIFF CASEY COX RE-ELECTED TO APPALACHIA HIDTA EXECUTIVE BOARD
Cumberland County Sheriff Casey Cox has been re-elected to serve on the 2021 Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA) Executive Board. They provides executive leadership and direction ...
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ISSUED FOR PLATEAU
The National Weather Service has issued a WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY that will go into effect at 3 p.m. central today (Wednesday, January 27, 2021) and is set to expire at 3 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Janu ...
TROOPERS AND MEDICS RESPOND TO TRACTOR-TRAILER ACCIDENT ON I-40
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and medics responded to a tractor-trailer accident on I-40 in Cumberland County around midnight. Initial reports states the 2014 Peterbilt operated by 50-year-old Omar A. ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 49,873 active cases (down 3,523 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 712,406 total cases. •662,533 re ...
LEIFKER ARRESTED FOLLOWING SHOOTING NOT FAR FROM LANTANA ROAD
Cumberland County deputies responded yesterday to a shooting. The arrest report states a man pulled his vehicle up near a building on O’Camp Road not far from Lantana Road to use the internet. Moment ...
HIGH SPEED PURSUIT ON SPARTA HIGHWAY ENDS WITH ARREST OF PARKS
While on a recent patrol on Sparta Highway, a Crossville police officer observed a motorcyclist traveling in excess of the speed limit. The report states the rider, 32-year-old Lawrence Mack Parks, sl ...
TENNESSEE NEEDS AT LEAST $58.6 BILLION OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Tennessee needs at least $58.6 billion worth of public infrastructure improvements during the five-year period of July 2019 to June 2024—a $3.8 billion (6.9%) increase from the year before—according t ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 53,396 active cases (down 986 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 710,427 total cases. •657,031 reco ...
VICTIM SUSTAINS ACCIDENTAL GUNSHOT WOUND
Cumberland County deputies responded to the emergency room of Cumberland Medical Center late Friday for a patient with an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. Upon arrival they made contact with t ...
TAYLOR CHARGED WITH RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AFTER STRIKING POLICE CRUISER
Crossville police responded to Bootleggers Bar Saturday in reference to a fight involving three men. One officer observed a white SUV driven by 29-year-old Justin Matthew Taylor of Crossville stopped ...
