ALCOA POLICE INVESTIGATING “SUSPICIOUS DEATH”
Police in Alcoa are investigating what is being called a "suspicious death." Officers were called to an apartment on Cherry St. shortly after 4:30 Friday afternoon to perform a welfare check. When the ...
Officials in Grundy Co. are looking for two children that were taken from daycare by their father on Friday and could be in danger.
ALTAMONT, Tenn. (WKRN) – Officials in Grundy Co. are looking for two children that were taken from daycare by their father on Friday and could be in danger. The two children, ages 2 and 4, were pic ...
TN DISABLED VETERAN TOLD TO ‘GET RID’ OF HIS WHEELCHAIR RAMP OR BE SUED
HERMITAGE, Tenn (WTVF) — A disabled veteran fights his homeowner's association for a wheelchair ramp. The veteran and his wife say they were told to take down the ramp or face a lawsuit. Everyday 6 ...
CELINA TENNESSEE ONLY HOSPITAL CLOSES FOR GOOD, NO MORE EMERGENCY SERVICES
NEWSCHANNEL5 Cumberland River Hospital in Celina has closed its doors for good, leaving residents in one Tennessee county with no emergency room. It's just one hospital that's part of a t ...
NEW NASHVILLE CLINIC SEEKS TO ‘DE-STIGMATIZE’ ABORTION
With locations already in the greater Washington, D.C. area, Chicago and Atlanta, a healthcare company that wraps itself in outspoken support of abortion today opened a new facility in Nashville. C ...
UPDATE: SHOTGUN-WIELDING SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER SHOT BY PIGEON FORGE POLICE AFTER CHASE
We now have the identity of the shotgun-wielding suspect shot in Sevier County early this morning. The TBI says 18-year-old Johnathon A. Sellers, suspected of DUI, led officers in pursuit along U.S ...
CHATTANOOGA POLICE OFFICER FIRED FOR “INSUBORDINATION & UNTRUTHFULNESS”
Chattanooga Police confirm an officer has been fired for "insubordination and untruthfulness." Chattanooga Police Department spokeswoman Elisa Myzal says Cameka Bruce was fired January 31. She was ...
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 ...
