ARREST MADE IN SHOOTING DEATH OF 7-YEAR-OLD IN RHEA COUNTY
Rhea County authorities arrested a man yesterday (Friday, January 19, 2024) in connection with the shooting death of 7-year-old Jo’zie Shane Brown. Deputies and agents with the Tennessee Bureau of ...
AMERICAN PICKERS TO FILM IN TENNESSEE AND LOOKING FOR LOCATIONS
The American Pickers on The History Channel are excited to return to Tennessee. They plan to film episodes of The History Channel hit television series throughout the state in March 2024. The show ...
FORMER COUNSELOR INDICTED FOR RAPE OF A MINOR IN PUTNAM COUNTY
On October 8, 2023 the Cookeville Police Department received information that a Youth Villages counselor had an inappropriate relationship with a minor in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, 5 ...
BODY OF MISSING HIKER RECOVERED AT FALL CREEK FALLS STATE PARK
Emergency crews responded to a lost hiker off the Park Road near the north entrance of Fall Creek Falls State Park. Personnel arrived and found tracks in the snow leading into the woods. ...
7-YEAR-OLD BOY IN RHEA COUNTY SUSTAINS FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND
A 7-year-old boy in Rhea County passed away from a gunshot wound. The sheriff’s office says the incident happened inside a residence on Upper Fine Lane in Dayton. Authorities say after ...
FREIGHTLINER COLLIDES WITH GUARD RAIL AND BURNS AT I-40/I-75 SPLIT
Loudon County deputies, medics, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol responded yesterday to a vehicle crash at the I-40 / I-75 spilt. The report states a 2016 Kenworth dump truck operated by 48-year-ol ...
TROOPERS: ROAD RAGE CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN INJURY VEHICLE CRASH
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and emergency medical services responded to a vehicle accident in Pickett County. The accident report indicates a Mitsubishi Outlander operated by Kasie Racquel Lee and ...
MCGUFFIE ARRESTED ON 27 COUNTS OF CHILD SEX CRIMES
Special agents assigned to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force have arrested and charged an Athens, Tennessee man in connection to an ongoing chi ...
FORMER WHITE COUNTY TEACHER INDICTED FOR CHILD RAPE
District Attorney General Bryant C. Dunaway says former White County Middle School teacher Austin Damon Allen has been indicted for child sex crimes. A White County Grand Jury yesterday found probabl ...
LAWMAKER IN TENNESSEE PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR CONVICTED CHILD RAPISTS
Tennessee House Majority Leader William Lamberth has proposed legislation that would make convicted child rapists eligible for the death penalty. House Bill 1663 proposes changing the existing senten ...
NUDE MAN ARRESTED AFTER ‘CANNONBALL’ PLUNGE INTO AQUARIUM AT BASS PRO SHOP
A man crashed his car outside a Bass Pro Shop in Leeds, Alabama, stripped, and plunged into a giant aquarium inside the store. The incident happened in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outs ...
FIVE TEENAGERS INJURED AFTER VEHICLE LANDS ON HOUSE AFTER STRIKING UTILITY POLE
Law enforcement says five teenagers were injured after a vehicle they were in crashed into a house in Pulaski, Tennessee. The report states the driver was going at a high speed and lost control of th ...
