EAST TENNESSEE CONFERENCE HOPES TO FIND SOLUTION TO OPIOID EPIDEMIC
It was the largest-ever gathering of medical professionals and community leaders in East Tennessee focused specifically on the opioid epidemic. And it convened in Lenoir City on Thursday. More than 3 ...
ROANE COUNTY DEPUTIES ENCOUNTER GROWLING INEBRIATED WOMAN ON PORCH SWING
Just after midnight today, a Roane County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a Hart Orchard Road home in Kingston for a woman said to be “wigging out.” The deputy found 31-year-old Megan Nicole Gregg ...
‘DENSO BEAR’ RELEASED IN CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST
The DENSO Bear, so named for having meandered through an East Tennessee manufacturing plant, has been released into the Cherokee National Forest Thursday… but not before being given a most fashionable ...
AFTER CLEVELAND 5-YEAR-OLD’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS, COMMUNITY OFFERS SUPPORT
When 5-year-old Olivia Weatherford was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma April 2, her community is offering support. They’ve coordinated a fundraiser in her honor to help raise money for the family ...
BURGLARY REPORTED ON PLATEAU ROAD
Monday morning, Cumberland County deputies responded to the 6900 block of Plateau Road for a report of two men wearing masks who had forced entry into a home. When officers responded, the intruders ha ...
LEBANON WOMAN ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
While conducting a traffic stop for a seatbelt violation just after midnight on Tuesday, Cumberland County deputies made contact with the driver, who was said to be “extremely nervous and shaking prof ...
CROSSVILLE WOMAN ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION, POSSESSION OF METH
Monday afternoon, Cumberland County deputies went to an address on Browntown Road for a report of a suspicious woman in black clothing, screaming and swinging a cane. When they arrived, they discovere ...
SUBMERGED TRUCK PULLED FROM NEAR CANEY CREEK MARINA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Investigators with the Roane County Sheriff’s Department will continue looking into the mysterious discovery and retrieval of a Ford Ranger pickup truck from the waters around Caney Creek Marina Wedne ...
FUGITIVE FROM OHIO APPREHENDED AFTER TRAFFIC STOP ON U.S. HIGHWAY 127
Late Sunday night, Crossville police conducted a traffic stop along U.S. Highway 127 for a truck following another vehicle too closely, driving 30 mph in a 45-mph zone, with no other traffic preventi ...
LINDSAY ARRESTED IN KILLING OF MAN; REMAINS DISCOVERED IN SUNBRIGHT
Morgan County Sheriff Wayne Potter’s investigators have prepared a warrant charging 50-year-old Wayne C. Lindsay of Sunbright with the first-degree premeditated murder of John Hammond, also of Morgan ...
MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF WHILE PUTTING GUN INTO POCKET
Rockwood police, fire first responders and an ambulance were sent to an address on the 700 block of Bates Street around 3 p.m. Wednesday, where a man had accidentally shot himself in the leg. The u ...
AFTER SUDDEN MEMORY LAPSE, NORTON FINDS CONTRABAND AMID PRIVATES
Late Monday night, Cumberland County deputies brought an inmate into the shower area for a strip search on suspicion of hidden contraband. As 34-year-old Joshua Matthew Norton of Crossville was comply ...
