DECATUR MAN INDICTED ON 1ST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGES
MEIGS COUNTY – An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office, and the 9th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office has resulted in ...
COST OF THANKSGIVING DINNER INCREASES IN 2025
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The cost of ingredients of a typical Thanksgiving dinner in Tennessee is up by 10.5% in 2025, according to surveys and data collected by the University of Tennessee Extension’s cons ...
TENNESSEE SAFE THANKSGIVING TRAVEL CHALLENGE INITIATIVE
Today, Commissioner Jeff Long of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDSOHS) and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) Colonel Matt Perry joined multiple law enforcement partners to ann ...
AAA OFFERS TOW-TO-GO FOR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (November 25, 2025) — As millions of Americans take to the roads to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family, AAA is once again offering its life-saving ‘Tow to Go’ program to h ...
THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD DEAD IN CRASH IN COCKE COUNTY
In Newport, Tennessee, a three-year-old child died Monday afternoon following a motor vehicle crash at a home on Ridgeland Drive. Cocke County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 4 p.m., where first r ...
ALCOA MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING BLOUNT DEPUTY FACES NEW PRELIMINARY HEARING
Kenneth Wayne DeHart Jr., a 43-year-old Alcoa man accused of killing Blount County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Greg McCowan and wounding Deputy Shelby Eggers during a February 8, 2024 traffic stop, is sch ...
COOKEVILLE DETECTIVES UNCOVER MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOT
Cookeville, TN – While conducting a parallel investigation, detectives with the Cookeville Police Department discovered a murder-for-hire plot targeting a local resident of Cookeville. As a result of ...
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION ON BIG CREEK ROAD IN MADISONVILLE
From Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones: In the early morning hours of Friday, November 21, 2025, at approximately 12:30 a.m., the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the 800 block ...
TENNESSEE PARENTS SUE TO BLOCK $1 BILLION PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM
A group of Tennessee parents and taxpayers has filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court challenging the state’s newly enacted universal private school voucher program, the Tennessee Education ...
BLACK BEAR BECOMES STRANDED ON ROOF OF A GATLINBURG ATTRACTION
In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, a 375-pound black bear became stranded on the roof of Ripley’s Motion Blaster sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. on Friday. The Gatlinburg Police Department received re ...
RAPE INVESTIGATION IN PUTNAM COUNTY LEADS TO ARREST IN ARKANSAS
From Putnam County Sheriff's Office: On August 24th, 2024, Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Detectives were notified that an adult male had climbed into a 13-year-old female’s bedroom window and alle ...
CHATTANOOGA DRIVEWAY HEIST REVEALED TO BE A SCAM
A bizarre incident in which a realtor’s vacant listing had its entire driveway removed and hauled away has been revealed as an elaborate scam. Paige Batten, the listing agent, initially believed worke ...
