15-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF 16-YEAR-OLD IN NASHVILLE
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with reckless homicide in Nashville. Metro Police say that 16-year-old Mina Fawzy was found dead inside his Antioch home Friday from a wound to the neck area. After ...
TENNESSEE’S OLDEST TOWN GETS THE FASTEST BROADBAND
Jonesborough, Tennessee, is taking a massive leap forward, technologically speaking. It’s Tennessee’s oldest town and it’s only the sixth place in the country to get sizzling-fast 10-gig fiber optic ...
LOUDON COUNTY WOMAN PREVENTED ELDERLY WOMAN FROM BEING SCAMMED
When Jeri Batsford saw an elderly woman in a home-improvement store in Lenoir City about to buy two $1,000 gift cards – supposedly for her granddaughter in jail in Virginia – Batsford knew she had to ...
TEEN ARRESTED AFTER CHASE ENDS IN ANDERSON COUNTY
A 19-year-old man is sitting in Anderson County jail this morning on multiple charges after fleeing from a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, Clinton police and Anderson County deputies last night. TH ...
NEW BUSINESS FILINGS UP 9% IN TENNESSEE FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2019
New business filings for the first quarter of 2019 increased nine percent in Tennessee from 2018. The office of Secretary of State Tre Hargett says 12,512 new entity filings were recorded in the firs ...
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ANNOUNCES ROBOCALL SCAM ALERT
The Federal Communications Commission is warning consumers about a robocall scam that’s been popping up around the country, and recently made its way into East Tennessee. According to the FCC, the so ...
SMOKIES’ TRILLIUM GAP TRAIL CLOSED WEEKDAYS UNTIL NOVEMBER FOR REHAB
Monday, the popular Trillium Gap Trail begins undergoing a two-year rehabilitation project and access will be closed Monday through Thursday from May 13 to Nov. 15. The trail will be fully open on Fr ...
ANDERSON COUNTY DEPUTIES ASSIST WITH FLORIDA CHILD SEX-ABUSE ARREST
In a press release issued this afternoon, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office reported it arrested 55-year-old David Andrew Cox last month on a warrant from Gilchrist County, Florida. The release all ...
WITNESSES SAY WRONG-WAY DRIVER ON I-40 DELIBERATELY CAUSED FATAL CRASH
Witnesses to a wrong-way accident on I-40 Westbound in Knoxville early Saturday say 30-year-old Kara D. Wakefield of Knoxville seemed to be deliberately trying to hit other vehicles. Investigators sa ...
LATEST TBI MOST-WANTED ADDITION IS SUSPECT IN FATAL HIT-AND-RUN
Knoxville police investigators have been looking for 55-year-old Juan Francisco in connection with the hit-and-run death of 52-year-old Debbie Burgess. And now Francisco has been added to the TBI’s M ...
BRISTOL DRAGWAY CONCERT VENUE SIGNS ALABAMA AS FIRST HEADLINER
Bristol Motor Speedway General Manager Jerry Caldwell announced this week Alabama will be its first headliner at the brand-new Bristol Dragway concert venue. The Thunder Valley Amphitheater will seat ...
GROUND BROKEN ON NEW OAK RIDGE COMPUTING, QUANTUM INFORMATION FACILITY
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry helped break ground this week on a new research facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The groundbreaking ceremony for the 100,000-square-foot Translational R ...
