COOKEVILLE HIGH PUT ON SOFT LOCKDOWN TODAY FOR WRITTEN THREAT
Cookeville High School was deemed safe after a hoax threat to the school Tuesday morning. Putnam County Schools Communications Supervisor Hannah Davis said the school entered a soft lockdown after a ...
GHOST HUNTERS TOUR CLOSER TO COMING TO OLD HARRIMAN HOSPITAL
Members of The Harriman Industrial Development board met Monday evening at City Hall to agree on finalizing documents of a contractual agreement with a paranormal group out of South Pittsburg Tennesse ...
MEDIC IN CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF BLOOD SUPPLY
MEDIC Regional Blood Center says that it currently has a critical need—defined as a less than 2-day supply—of blood types O-positive and O-negative.MEDIC will offer hoodies to donors on February 24 an ...
JAMESTOWN MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER, DUMPING BODY OVER MOUNTAIN
A Tennessee man faces several charges, including murder, after he allegedly told police he killed a man and dumped the remains off a "steep mountain overhang." Mark Trent of Muncie was reported missi ...
EAST TN MAN HIT, KILLED BY TRAIN WHILE STANDING ON TRACKS
Morristown Police said Monday that a man was struck Sunday evening by a passing train and later died at a hospital. According to MPD, at around 6 p.m., a man identified as Antone Romanov, 34, was sta ...
PROPOSED TN LAW WOULD ALLOW SUING UNIVERSITIES OVER ‘CRITICAL RACE THEORY TEACHINGS’
Tennessee's Republican leadership is renewing its battle over critical race theory, and this time targeting public universities. A bill sponsored by leadership in the House and Senate would give coll ...
MORE THAN 1,000 RODENTS FOUND INSIDE FAMILY DOLLAR FACILITY
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting the public that several categories of FDA-regulated products purchased from Jan. 1, 2021, through the present from Family Dollar stores in Alab ...
CAR HITS AMBULANCE, THEN ANOTHER CAR HIT FIRST CAR AND AMBULANCE IN TAZEWELL
TAZEWELL POLICE DEPARTMENT Preliminary report on the motor vehicle accident at U.S. Hwy. 25E and Cave Springs Road. (Thursday night-11pm) A Claiborne EMS ambulance was en route northbound on U.S. Hw ...
CAT LOST IN CALIFORNIA RETURNED TO OWNERS IN KNOXVILLE, SEVEN YEARS LATER
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A cat that has been missing for 7 years in California is on a her way to Tennessee for a reunion with her owner. Joe Drnec, who now lives near Knoxville, said he received a c ...
REGIONAL ACTIVE COVID CASES AT ALL-TIME HIGH, DEATH RATES DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY (Latest numbers)
Even though the pandemic is hitting a plateau across the nation and Tennessee with numbers down some 55% from 3 weeks ago. Covid-19 case counts in Anderson, Campbell, Roane, Cumberland and Morgan coun ...
U.T. STUDENTS BEING SHOT AT WITH PELLET GUNS BY PASSING CARS, SOCIAL MEDIA TREND
The University of Tennessee Police Department said it received two reports over the weekend from students who had been shot at with Airsoft or Orbeez pellet pistols from moving vehicles. The inci ...
PARENTS ARRESTED AFTER 2-YEAR-OLD CHILD TESTED POSITIVE FOR METH AND THC
Two people were arrested Monday after Sevierville Police detectives were informed one of their two children tested positive for methamphetamine and THC. Adam Pierce, 29, and Kayleigh Peterman, 24, ea ...
