WHAT TO EXPECT FROM WHAT WILL BE TROPICAL DEPRESSION LAURA ON THE PLATEAU AND IN THE VALLEY
Hurricane Laura made landfall early this morning near Cameron, Louisiana. The storm will diminish in intensity as it heads towards Arkansas and turns east toward Tennessee and Kentucky tomorrow mornin ...
WORK BEGINS ON NEW RUNWAY AT JAMESTOWN MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IN FENTRESS COUNTY
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently bid out a multimillion-dollar project for improving the Jamestown Municipal Airport. The work includes redoing the runway and making the taxiways lon ...
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 REPORT – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2020
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: TENNESSEE – 37,588 (up 206 cases from yesterday) active cases in Tennessee out of 147,353 total cases (up 1,936 cases sin ...
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 REPORT – TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: TENNESSEE – 37,382 (down 631 cases from yesterday) active cases in Tennessee out of 145,417 total cases (up 813 cases sin ...
NRC FINES TVA FOR FIRING ENGINEERS WHO RAISED WATTS BAR SAFETY CONCERNS
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has fined the TVA more than $600,000 and banned one TVA executive from nuclear activities for five years. A recent investigation revealed TVA violated whistlebl ...
MULTIPLE FATALITIES REPORTED IN I-40 WRONG WAY CRASH IN COCKE COUNTY
The highway patrol says three people were killed and two others hurt in a wrong-way accident on I-40 in Cocke County yesterday. The report states a Ford Focus was traveling east in the westbound lanes ...
SEVERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN TENNESSEE GETS FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS
Today (August 25, 2020), the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) announced $22.6 million in federal grant funds to be distributed statewide from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration f ...
DUMP TRUCK DRIVER SENTENCED AFTER 2016 CRASH THAT KILLED 4 IN MEIGS COUNTY
Judge Jeff Wicks has sentenced John Wesley Bennett to serve time in prison for a fatal hit and run crash in Meigs County back in 2016. Bennett pleaded guilty in December 2019 to eight charges related ...
BRADLEY COUNTY DEPUTIES SEARCHING FOR MISSING WOMAN
The Bradley County Sheriff's Department is asking for assistance in locating a 34-year-old woman they say may be in Hamilton, Rhea or Bledsoe County. Amber Renee Monday has been missing since August ...
MULTI-VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON I-40 IN PUTNAM COUNTY RESULTS IN INJURIES
A four vehicle accident last Friday (August 21, 2020) on I-40 in Putnam County left two hurt. In the report released this morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol says a 2000 Kenworth tractor-trailer ope ...
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 REPORT – MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2020
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: TENNESSEE – 38,013 (down 1,870 cases from yesterday) active cases in Tennessee out of 144,604 total cases (up 667 cases s ...
MANUFACTURING PLANT TO RELOCATE TO RHEA COUNTY AND BRING OVER 70 NEW JOBS
Master Manufacturing Group (MMG) officials announced today (Monday, August 24, 2020) the company will relocate its headquarters and manufacturing operations from Rancho Cordova, California to Rhea Cou ...
