PAIR ARRESTED IN OLIVER SPRINGS AFTER KERFUFFLE WITH HOMEOWNER
This morning, Roane County deputies responded to a home on Fairview Circle in Oliver Springs, for a report of a man “trying to fight people.” The resident said her grandson, 23-year-old Brian Austin ...
STRING OF PRO-LIFE BILLS PROPOSED IN TENNESSEE
Lawmakers in Tennessee have introduced a range of legislation following Gov. Bill Lee’s promise to support any bill that reduces the number of abortions in the state. This comes in alignment with a na ...
MCGHEE-TYSON AIRPORT NOW OFFERS NONSTOP SERVICE TO LAGUARDIA AIRPORT IN NEW YORK
American Airlines has announced the launch of direct flights from McGhee-Tyson Airport to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The airline announced the new route to accommodate changing needs in the area. ...
TDOT SPOKESMAN CLARIFIES STATUS OF REPAIRS TO HIGHWAY 116 IN ANDERSON COUNTY
Clarifying the status of the repairs underway on Highway 116 in Anderson County, TDOT spokesperson Mark Nagi said this morning one lane of the roadway between Indian Fork Lane and Bunch Cemetery is op ...
ANDERSON COUNTY BLAZE KILLS TWO, INJURES ONE
A house fire outside Rocky Top killed two people and injured one late Wednesday afternoon. Deputies and fire crews from the Medford, Briceville and Andersonville Volunteer Fire departments responded t ...
SHOOTING OF VEHICULAR ASSAILANT BY OAK RIDGE POLICE DEEMED JUSTIFIED
When Oak Ridge police officer Nathan Gibson fired three rounds at 36-year-old Isaiah Ramirez October 8, 2018, the shooting was justified. So said Anderson County District Attorney General Dave Clark t ...
ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT RESULT IN BROCK HILL BEING REMOVED AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AT TDEC
David Salyers, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) confirmed Wednesday that Deputy Commissioner Brock Hill was removed from office follo ...
REINKING PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN WAFFLE HOUSE MURDERS
As victims’ family members and Waffle House employees looked on, lawyers for Travis Reinking, accused in the 2018 killings of four and the wounding of four others inside an Antioch Waffle House, enter ...
WISCONSIN MAN TO BE ARRAIGNED FOR HIS PART IN TENNESSEE TEEN’S DISAPPEARANCE
The Wisconsin man accused of convincing a 14-year-old Madisonville, Tennessee, girl to film her adoptive father raping her will remain in custody, for now. Yesterday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Oppe ...
DEBATE OVER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, DISCRIMINATION IN PROPOSED ADOPTION LAW
A law proposed in the Tennessee legislature has sparked protest on both sides – on both the local and national levels – regarding religious freedom versus potential discrimination. Oak Ridge Represen ...
LENOIR CITY SHOOTING VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS 23-YEAR-OLD DAKOTA WILLARD; SUSPECT CHARGED WITH MURDER
The Loudon County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim in Monday’s shooting in Lenoir City. They say 23-year-old Dakota Willard was shot in the upper right chest and the left side of the back of ...
ALERT CITIZEN CREDITED WITH TIPPING OFF AUTHORITIES ABOUT SUSPECT’S LOCATION
Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider is crediting an “observant citizen” for alerting them to the whereabouts of David T. Miles, wanted in this morning’s shooting of an as-yet-unidentified man at a Lee Hi ...
