
ONGOING WOES FOR JAMESTOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
If you live in Fentress County and you need emergency care, forget about going to Jamestown Regional Medical Center. Technically, the hospital is open, but they’re not admitting anyone or seeing pati ...

UPCOMING ROANE COUNTY ROAD CLOSURE ANNOUNCED
Roane County Road Superintendent Dennis Ferguson has announced that starting Monday, June 3, Poplar Creek Road – in the area of the Cave that is currently one lane – will be shut down for an extended ...

TRAFFIC ALERT: ROAD CLOSURE ALONG EAST FIRST STREET
The City of Crossville Street Department will have East First Street closed again today from South Main Street to Rockwood Avenue. Please use caution when traveling in this area; use alternate routes ...

BEAR CREATES STIR WHEN IT WANDERS INTO TOWN
City, county and state officials responded to calls about a bear wandering about in town yesterday. First the critter was spotted in Crossville City Cemetery, then at the Roane State campus on Cook R ...

ALTERCATION AFTER SIMPLE REQUEST RESULTS IN ASSAULT REPORT IN TANSI
A Cumberland County man was fishing from a parking lot near the Tansi POA office when a man brought his dog over and threw a ball out near the other man’s fishing line. The man asked the dog owner if ...

HARDIN STILL AT LARGE; AUTHORITIES FILL IN ADDITIONAL INFO
While the manhunt for 57-year-old George Edwin Hardin continues, local law-enforcement authorities released additional details about the kidnapping case that began Sunday afternoon. Cumberland County ...

PRAYER WALK AROUND JAMESTOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER THURSDAY
Local organizers are conducting a Hope Heals prayer walk around Jamestown Regional Medical Center, tomorrow, May 23, at 6 p.m. All residents of Fentress County are invited to take part in the non-deno ...

U.S.P.S. THANKS PUBLIC FOR PARTICIPATION IN 2019 STAMP OUT HUNGER DRIVE
Eight local food pantries are better equipped to serve their communities after the 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger Post Office Food Drive on May 11. The numbers are in and residents of Crossville and Cu ...

ROANE COUNTY WWII SOLDIER’S REMAINS TO RETURN HOME TODAY
More than 74 years after his death during World War II, U.S. Army Private First Class William Frank Delaney is coming home to Kingston. The 24-year-old soldier was killed November 22, 1944 by an arti ...

HALL, MOORE ARRESTED AFTER WEEKEND TRAFFIC STOPS IN ROCKWOOD
Rockwood police were kept busy this past weekend with drug arrests after traffic stops. Officers conducting a traffic stop on South Gateway Avenue Saturday afternoon arrested 26-year-old Cody Jonathan ...

ONE TRAFFIC STOP, FOUR ARRESTS IN ROCKWOOD SUNDAY MORNING
Rockwood police pulled over a car with four occupants at the Big E's Market on Gateway early Sunday morning. According to the police report, the driver, 29-year-old Curtis Alexander Lloyd, and all thr ...

CRASH REPORT RELEASED FOR HIGHWAY 70 MISHAP SUNDAY
Just before 6:30 Sunday evening, a truck driven by 45-year-old Jason Givens of Rockwood was headed west on State Highway 70 in Roane County, near Fire Tower Road. Givens ran off the right side of the ...