THEFT REPORTED FROM VEHICLE PARKED AT FORMER CROSSVILLE BUSINESS
Wednesday evening, Crossville police responded to the former Ryan’s restaurant on U.S. Highway 127 North. An employee of a nearby auto dealership said he’d parked his vehicle and trailer in the parkin ...
ROANE COUNTY REMEMBERS LATE COMMISSIONER
Former Roane County Commissioner Jerry Goddard passed away last Thursday at the age of 72. He was laid to rest at Roane Memorial Gardens in Rockwood this weekend with honors as local fire-department p ...
UPDATE ON ROANE COUNTY ROAD CLOSURES
Old Airport Road on Rockwood Mountain, connecting Morgan and Cumberland counties, could be closed for months, according to Roane County Road Superintendent Dennis Ferguson. A recent tour of damaged ro ...
ROANE COUNTY COMMISSION TO MEET TONIGHT
The Roane County Commission is scheduled to meet this evening at 7 at the courthouse in Kingston. Among items to be discussed will be several budget amendments. The Commission will also recognize the ...
DISORIENTED MAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF LEGEND DRUG AFTER BEING FOUND ALONG I-40
Late Sunday night, deputies were dispatched to Interstate 40 westbound near the 360 exit for a report of a man on the side of the interstate. The man, 51-year-old Homer Samuel Ivey, was unsteady on hi ...
EIGHT YOUTHS INJURED IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHURCH-BUS CRASH
Eight boys from Parrans Chapel Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, were sent to hospitals after a church bus crashed in Fairview. The bus, borrowed from Dixie Hills Baptist Church, overturned on ...
WOMAN CHARGED WITH DUI AFTER CRASHING INTO SCHOOL BUS
Deputies in Grundy County say a local woman faces charges after crashing her car into a Grundy County Head Start bus on Highway 108 in Altamont Friday afternoon. Thirty-five-year-old Shannon Hargis ...
PRESIDENT BUSH TO SPEAK AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY THIS EVENING
Former President George W. Bush will speak tonight at Vanderbilt University, along with Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and presidential historian Jon Meacham. Meacham is endowed chair and vi ...
MAN ATTEMPTS TO STEAL FIRETRUCK IN CLAIBORNE COUNTY
Tazewell police officers arrested a man Sunday for attempting to steal a fire truck. They found Johnathan Scott Rodriguez at the wheel of an idling Tazewell/New Tazewell Fire Department ladder truc ...
BILL WOULD BAN SMOKING IN AND NEAR PLAYGROUNDS – ON AN “OPT-IN” BASIS
A bill currently making its way through committees in the state legislature seeks to ban smoking in or near playgrounds. As written, the bill authorizes Knox County and Knoxville to prohibit smokin ...
STATE OFFICIALS SAY THAT NEW UPPER CUMBERLAND VETERANS’ CEMETERY “WILL HAPPEN”
The idea of building another State Veteran's Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland Region has been kicked around for several years. The State Department is saying that time is near. According to Veterans' ...
OVER 1200 WITHOUT POWER IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Due to the severity of Saturday night's thunderstorms in the region, several residents in Cumberland County are still without power. According to VEC, 1286 customers are currently without power, mainl ...
