SHOOTING IN BLEDSOE COUNTY LEAVES ONE INJURED
A Bledsoe County man was charged this week with attempted criminal homicide and aggravated assault after he reportedly shot his stepfather. Officers say Robert Jones discharged a firearm striking Kurt ...
FIRST CONFIRMED CASE OF CORONAVIRUS REPORTED IN TENNESSEE
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Tennessee. The patient, a 44-year-old man, is in Williamson County (just south of Nashville) and is currently q ...
MISSING FENTRESS COUNTY TEENAGER FOUND SAFE
The Fentress County Sheriff's Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a missing teen has been found safe. "Great News! Marcus Walker has been located. Thank you for sharing!" said T ...
CRANE WORKER STUCK 375 FEET ABOVE NASHVILLE RECORDS DEADLY TORNADO
A crane worker was caught on video while he was suspended high above downtown Nashville during the state's deadly tornado system that ripped through earlier this week. The construction worker appeare ...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: “AT LEAST EF-3” TORNADO HIT PUTNAM COUNTY
The National Weather Service said today “at least an EF-3 tornado” hit Putnam County yesterday, but surveyors were still assessing data to determine whether the force of the storm was stronger. Crews ...
“210 MILE BROKEN TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION” – TRACKING THE DEADLY TORNADO OF MARCH 3, 2020
The tornado that left numerous dead and injured in the early morning hours of March 3, 2020 left a 210 mile broken trail of destruction in middle Tennessee. The tornado formed and initially hit the g ...
IDENTITIES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS KILLED IN PUTNAM COUNTY TORNADO RELEASED
Putnam County released this morning the identities of the ones killed in yesterday morning’s tornado. Five were children and the rest were adults. They are: Hattie Collins – 3 to 4 year old female D ...
CAUSE OF UNOCCUPIED HOME FIRE IN FENTRESS COUNTY UNDER INVESTIGATION
Fentress County authorities are looking into the cause of a fire that destroyed an unoccupied home on the 1,000 block of Terry Lane in the Banner Springs area. Firefighters arrived to see the structur ...
PUTNAM COUNTY RELEASES UPDATED LIST OF PEOPLE MISSING AFTER TORNADO
Officials in Putnam County released an updated list as of 7:15 a.m. this morning (March 4, 2020) of people who have been reported missing after a tornado struck the area early yesterday morning. Rach ...
17 NOW REPORTED KILLED IN PUTNAM COUNTY TORNADO
The death toll continues to climb in Putnam County from a large tornado that hit around 2 a.m. this morning. Officials say 17 died, some including children, and around 75 were injured between the Cook ...
SMALL TORNADO REPORTED IN WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY
A survey by the National Weather Service in Morristown indicated an EF-0 tornado with 85 mile per hour winds touched down in western Morgan County just before 4 a.m. eastern time this morning. The to ...
VERIZON EXPERIENCING WIDESPREAD OUTAGES BECAUSE OF TENNESSEE STORMS
Verizon is reporting widespread outages because of the storms that left a trail of destruction in Tennessee early this morning. Kate Jay, spokesperson from Verizon, released the following statement: ...









