ENDANGERED CHILD ALERT ISSUED FOR MISSING GREENBRIER TEENAGER
The TBI is searching for 16-year-old Cole Fox who is missing from Greenbrier, Tennessee. Fox is described as a Caucasian male standing 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds and has brown hair and ...
JUDGE RULES SURVIVORS CAN SUE OVER DEADLY GATLINBURG FIRE
A federal judge has ruled that survivors of a deadly Gatlinburg wildfire can sue the National Park Service for failing to warn them of the danger. The fire began in the Great Smoky Mountains National ...
PROSECUTORS WILL NOT SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR WAFFLE HOUSE SHOOTING SUSPECT
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing four people at a Waffle House in Nashville back in April 2018. Instead, they are seeking life in prison without the possibility ...
TENNESSEE SENATOR REINTRODUCING BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE
Tennessee State Senator Janice Bowling is reintroducing a bill that would allow for the use of medical marijuana. If passed, the bill would allow qualified patients to access medical cannabis on a re ...
FORMER POLICE CHIEF IN ANDERSON COUNTY INDICTED BY GRAND JURY
An investigation by agents with the TBI has resulted in the indictment of a former police chief for forgery and perjury. Agents began investigating allegations against 42-year-old Samuel Ogburn. The ...
ANDERSON COUNTY MAN SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
An Oak Ridge man was sentenced in court after pleading guilty to three counts of attempted first-degree murder. The judge gave 25-year-old Jacob Lynn Rutherford twenty years on each count to serve con ...
GRUBBS INDICTED ON SECOND-DEGREE MURDER IN PUTNAM COUNTY
Court officials say 71-year-old Brenda Grubbs was indicted by a Putnam County grand jury yesterday for the second-degree murder of her husband, Ronald Grubbs, Sr. On December 8, 2018, deputies respond ...
MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER APPEARS IN OVERTON CO. COURT
A man charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder in Overton County appeared in criminal court yesterday. Officers say 35-year-old Casey Wayne Looper of Westmoreland was involved in a dom ...
POSSIBLE TRIAL DATE SET FOR OVERTON CO. MAN CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY
An Overton County man appeared in criminal court yesterday charged with sex crimes. An investigation by the TBI lead to indictments against Clayton Wesley Copeland for aggravated sexual battery and ag ...
KNOXVILLE FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE TRAPPED RESIDENTS OF APARTMENT BUILDING BLAZE
Knoxville firefighters rescued residents trapped on the fourth floor of an apartment building fire this morning. Officials say the fire took place at the Barclay Apartments at 1616 Laurel Avenue close ...
BILL TO HELP STUDENTS WHO CAN’T PAY FOR LUNCHES BEING CONSIDERED BY STATE LAWMAKERS
A Tennessee state representative has introduced a bill that would prevent schools from lunch-shaming students who cannot pay for their lunch or pay off their lunch debt. House Bill 1589, called the " ...
WHITE CO. CONVICT DENIED POST CONVICTION RELIEF IN DEATH OF INFANT DAUGHTER
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has denied a post-conviction relief for a White County man convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. Joshua Taylor Iceman of Sparta was found ...
