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 ...
WOMAN ON OPANA TELLS POLICE ABOUT SPRINKLED CHEESE, EVIL GROUNDS
Well before dawn Sunday, Crossville city police were dispatched to remove an unwelcome woman from a home on Underwood Street. They found 43-year-old Sandra Anne Bryan of Crossville standing in the roa ...
WOMAN ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION AT LOCAL LAUNDROMAT
Just before noon on Saturday, Crossville police were called to the Wash N Dry on North Main Street for a report of a woman inside the business possibly on drugs. Police found 39-year-old Ruth Irwin D ...
TRESPASSER TRIES TO DISSUADE OFFICERS WITH THREATS TO CALL THE “REAL POLICE”
Late Friday night, Crossville police were engaged in extra patrolling around Old Jamestown Highway for vagrants reported to be living in an abandoned garage. A stairwell leading to the second floor wa ...
COUNTERFEIT BILL REPORTED AT LOCAL WINERY
Crossville police responded yesterday afternoon to Chestnut Hill Winery for a report of a counterfeit $100 bill received as payment. The owner reported she’d been going through the weekend deposit an ...
COUNTERFEIT $100 UNKNOWINGLY DISPENSED TO CUSTOMER AT CREDIT UNION
Friday morning, Crossville police were called to Walmart for a report of a counterfeit $100 bill. A customer said she’d just left Upper Cumberland Federal Credit Union, where she’d cashed her payroll ...
DEFENSIVE AFTER TRAFFIC STOP, WILLIAMS ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES
Thursday night, Crossville police conducted a routine traffic stop on Penny Lane. After securing permission to conduct a search, they asked the occupants to exit the vehicle. The driver, 55-year-old D ...
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 ...
ROANE COUNTY DEPUTY ENCOUNTERS BLUNTLY HONEST MAN DURING TRAFFIC STOP
Early this morning, a Roane County deputy conducted a traffic stop for a light-law violation on Harriman Highway, near J.B. Cofer Lane. When he asked 55-year-old Fontaine David King for his driver’s l ...
TRAFFIC STOP NETS ARREST ON OUTSTANDING WARRANTS
Early Saturday morning, a Roane County deputy initiated a traffic stop on Harbin Drive. The driver, 44-year-old Larry Randall Green, said he didn’t have his driver’s license on him. His license was fo ...











