ONE DRIVER KILLED IN TWO-VEHICLE HEAD-ON CRASH IN OAK RIDGE
Oak Ridge police report one person was killed early yesterday morning in a two-vehicle head-on crash on Edgemoor Road, near Haw Ridge Park. One driver was pronounced dead at the scene; the other was ...
NEWPORT PASTOR BONDS OUT AFTER STATUTORY RAPE CHARGES
The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office says a pastor at Dayspring Baptist Church in Newport is out on bond after being charged with statutory rape. Forty-year-old Artie Michael Sturm was arrested April 29 ...
ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES LODGED AFTER SHOOTING IN POWELL
Two teens and a 20-year-old have been charged with attempted murder after a shooting late Monday afternoon, according to Knox County authorities. Knox County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports o ...
STATE TROOPER KILLED IN I-40 CRASH IN WEST TENNESSEE
A crash on Interstate 40 West in Madison County killed a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper who was responding to a call. Trooper Matthew Gatti of the Memphis district died in the highway crash. Gatti ...
FORT LOUDON WASTE & RECYCLING FIRE STARTED BY BACKFIRING FORKLIFT
Arson investigators have determined last week’s massive recycling-plant fire was started by a backfiring propane-fueled forklift. The machinery backfire ignited several pallets of loose paper. Knoxvi ...
DAD PUNCHED, KILLED MONTH-OLD SON AFTER LOSING VIDEO GAME
A 26-year-old father in Louisville, Kentucky, was so enraged when he lost a video game Friday night that he threw the video-game controller. Then Anthony Trice punched his one-month-old son in the hea ...
DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER ENGAGING KNOXVILLE POLICE IN CHASE, CRASHING IN LAKE
A report of bizarre events led to a foot chase after a Kodak man careened into Fountain City Lake over the weekend. Knoxville police were alerted Sunday to a man stopped at a stop sign, punching hims ...
NASHVILLE MAN ARRESTED AFTER WIFE FINDS VIDEO OF HIM RAPING 5-YEAR-OLD
A Nashville man is under arrest at this hour on charges of raping a 5-year-old boy. John Calvillo is being held in Metro Jail on $150,000 bond after his wife found a video on her husband’s cellphone t ...
SEVIER COUNTY TEACHER SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FOLLOWING ARREST
The Sevier County School System has suspended a teacher without pay after an assault arrest. John Wade, a music teacher at Pittman Center Elementary School, was suspended without pay by Superintendent ...
BODY RECOVERED FROM FORT LOUDOUN LAKE WAS THAT OF MISSING KNOX COUNTY MAN
The Blount County Sheriff's Office recovered the body of a missing man from Fort Loudoun Lake Saturday morning. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office reported Ryan Howard had last been seen early on the m ...
NEW MARKET POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH SOLICITATION OF A MINOR
A joint law-enforcement investigation has resulted in the arrest of a New Market police officer for arranging to have sexual activity with a minor. At the request of 4th District Attorney General Jim ...
MOTORIST CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH IN NASHVILLE SATURDAY
Police have charged a man with vehicular homicide by intoxication in a crash that killed a Nashville motorist Saturday. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reports 31-year-old Elvin Portillo ...
