FORMER PASTOR FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING ADOPTED DAUGHTER
A onetime Lenoir City pastor has been convicted of repeatedly raping one of his adopted daughters. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, David Lynn Richards, Jr., the former pastor of My Father ...
NATION’S OLDEST LIVING GIRAFFE, PATCHES, DIES AT ZOO KNOXVILLE
The oldest reticulated giraffe in the United States has died. Patches, who was born at Zoo Knoxville in 1987, had lived there her entire life. A team from the University of Tennessee College of Veteri ...
UPDATE: ALL LANES ON PARKWAY REOPENED AFTER OVERNIGHT SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
All lanes of the Parkway (U.S. Highway 441) have been reopened to traffic along the Pigeon Forge/Sevierville line, after an overnight officer-involved shooting. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigatio ...
TBI INVESTIGATES OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN SEVIERVILLE, PARKWAY CLOSED
U.S. Highway 441 (the Parkway) has been temporarily closed at the Sevierville/Pigeon Forge city limits as TBI investigates an officer-involved shooting overnight. The shooting occurred near Apple Vall ...
NEW PROGRAM UNVEILED TO AID VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced the launch of a new program designed to help protect victims of domestic violence in Tennessee. Hargett was joined by Sen. Brian Kelsey of Colliervil ...
HIGH-SPEED I-75 CHASE ENDS IN SWEETWATER; PERP IN CUSTODY
Tennessee Highway Patrol officers say a Sweetwater man led them on a high-speed chase through McMinn County and into Sweetwater Tuesday night. According to a THP spokesman, 24-year-old Fidencio Ara ...
MURFREESBORO GUN STORE CLERKS CHASE TEEN THIEVES, HOLD THEM AT GUNPOINT
You have to be a special kind of reckless to attempt to steal from a gun store. That’s what 21-year-old Even Bell and 19-year-old J’Darrius Rice, both of Chattanooga, learned Tuesday afternoon, when t ...
STATE SPORTS BETTING BILL PASSES LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE
Legalized sports betting has taken a step closer toward passage in Tennessee. HB1 was approved Wednesday by the Departments and Agencies Subcommittee. It was the first of several hurdles the bill face ...
POPULAR FROZEN-BEVERAGE COMPANY RELOCATING HQ TO TENNESSEE
Governor Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced today an iconic frozen-beverage company is pulling up its California roots for the friendlier bu ...
TENNESSEE LAWMAKERS ADVANCE FETAL HEARTBEAT BILL
A state bill that would essentially ban most abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat has cleared another legislative hurdle and now advances to the full House for a vote. "This is an issue tha ...
OAK RIDGE POLICE ARREST FIVE SUSPECTS IN COUNTERFEIT BUST
Last Thursday, February 21, the Oak Ridge Police Department arrested five suspects following a fraudulent transaction with counterfeit money. Officers were notified by a local business suspected co ...
PROPOSED BILL WOULD LIMIT TOBACCO, VAPE SALES TO THOSE AGE 21 AND UP
Several lawmakers in the state are pushing to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco or vaping products to 21 from 18. This week, Republican State Sen. Shane Reeves and House Rep. Bob Ramsey said t ...
