MAN INFECTED BY FLESH-EATING BACTERIA IN TENNESSEE RIVER
An Alabama man was infected with flesh-eating bacteria while kayaking down the Tennessee River. Ricky Rutherford was exposed to flesh-eating bacteria earlier this week. The bacteria caused redness of ...
FBI SEEKING CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER FORMERLY FROM SPRING CITY
The FBI is seeking the whereabouts of a man wanted for possession of child pornography. Agents say 46-year-old Christopher Joey Reed is a registered sex offender and had been previously arrested on ch ...
PILOT INJURED IN PLANE CRASH ON CAGLE MOUNTAIN
A pilot was injured yesterday in a plane crash on Cagle Mountain in Sequatchie County, Tennessee. Officers say 67-year-old Murray Marien, of Canada, was the sole occupant in the plane when it went dow ...
ENDANGERED CHILD ALERT ISSUED FOR MISSING PUTNAM CO. CHILD
The TBI issued an Endangered Child Alert for one-year-old Lachlan Thomas Capo, who is missing from Putnam County. He was last seen yesterday with Margot Walker, who may be driving a blue 2002 Volvo wi ...
TDOT PROVIDES UPDATE ON REPAIRS TO SECTION OF HWY. 68
TDOT Region 2 Community Relations Officer Jennifer Flynn spoke to 105.7 News today and provided an update on repairs to a section of Highway 68. “On Highway 68 in Rhea County, an area of the slope be ...
ANNUAL TAX-FREE WEEKEND APPROACHING IN TENNESSEE
Tennessee’s annual tax-free weekend is approaching. It will start Friday, July 26, and ends Sunday, July 28, at midnight. Most clothes and school supplies will be exempt from sales tax, as long as eac ...
KENTUCKY DEPUTY SHOT RESPONDING TO DISPUTE CALL
A McCreary County, Kentucky sheriff’s deputy was shot last night while responding to a domestic dispute call. The officer was shot around 8 p.m. along Lick Creek Road while approaching 48-year old Ma ...
FARMERS COULD QUALIFY FOR FLOOD RELIEF FROM SEVERE WEATHER
Farmers in several Upper Cumberland counties may qualify for additional flood relief resulting from severe weather earlier this year. The USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service of Tennessee has ...
$198 MILLION DOLLAR WINNING LOTTERY TICKET BOUGHT IN TN.
A winning lottery ticket worth $198 million was bought in Hendersonville, Tennessee, lottery officials announced Sunday. The Powerball numbers were pulled Saturday night, and the jackpot winner's tic ...
STEAK AND POTATOES FIELD DAY SET IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Beef cattle producers, fruit and vegetable growers, and Tennessee landowners should save the date for the Steak and Potatoes Field Day: Tuesday, August 6, 2019. A University of Tennessee Institute of ...
LOCAL AND AREA CROPS AND FIELD REPORT – JULY 16, 2019
SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS DO LITTLE TO SLOW FIELDWORK Scattered thundershowers popped up across the state, but did little to hinder fieldwork. For the most part, row crop farmers had finished planting ...
IDENTITY RELEASED OF MAN KILLED IN HANG GLIDER ACCIDENT
A man killed Saturday afternoon in a hang glider crash in Oliver Springs has been identified. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Department named 45-year-old Patrick Scott Lucas of Morristown, as the decea ...
