ONE DEAD, TWO INJURED IN HEAD ON VEHICLE CRASH IN WHITE COUNTY
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal vehicle accident in White County. Law enforcement and medics responded yesterday to the scene on Roberts Matthews Highway in Sparta. Trooper ...
NO CREDIBLE THREAT DISCOVERED AFTER SCHOOL BOMB THREAT IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Cumberland County Director of Schools William Stepp released the following statement after a bomb threat was left on the school systems Facebook page: "This evening there were online threats made t ...
BOMB THREAT MADE ON CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOL FACEBOOK PAGE
Authorities are looking into a bomb threat posted on the Cumberland County Schools Facebook tonight. The post indicated someone was taking a bomb to school Friday. No specific school was mentioned ...
RALPH ENGLAND, A GREAT CIVIC LEADER IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PASSES AWAY
Crossville and Cumberland County have lost a great civic leader. Ralph England passed away at the age of 91. His first job in the mid-1950s was at Clyde’s Drive-in restaurant with his brother Cl ...
THREE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO DEATH OF CROSSVILLE MAN
A joint investigation by special agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department has resulted in the indictment and ...
CROSSVILLE MAN CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
A Cumberland County deputy went to North Carolina yesterday to pick up a suspect held in a Robeson County jail wanted for the death of an individual. The arrest report says 61-year-old Michael Ralp ...
DRIVER TRANSPORTED TO CUMBERLAND MEDICAL CENTER FOLLOWING ACCIDENT
Cumberland County deputies and medics responded Tuesday to a single-vehicle crash with an injury. The accident report states a 2021 Toyota driven by 77-year-old Christine Basile-Ozkara of Crossvill ...
THOMPSON ARRAIGNED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY ON CHARGES INCLUDING VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
A Cumberland County man indicted for vehicular homicide was arraigned in criminal court yesterday. The indictments against 45-year-old Tony Curtis Thompson of Crossville state in December 2022, he ...
SENTENCING DATE SET FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY MAN CONVICTED OF CHILD RAPE
A new sentencing date of March 4, 2024, is scheduled for a Cumberland County man convicted of rape of a child. Court officials say 62-year-old Jimmy Harold Clark was found guilty last month of the ...
KERLEY ARRAIGNED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY COURT FOR MURDER
Michael Paul Kerley, age 45, was arraigned yesterday in Cumberland County Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and the manufacture, sale, delivery, or possession of a Schedule II drug. ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY MAN GUILTY OF CHILD SEX CRIME
A Cumberland County man entered a plea of guilty today (Wednesday, January 24, 2024) in criminal court to a child sex crime. Court officials say 62-year-old Michael Joe Phillips was arrested in 202 ...
SCHOOL CLOSINGS AND DELAYS FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2024
(Check back with this story for updates! Last updated 5:40 p.m. central, Wednesday, January 25, 2024) The reason for closing is either partially icy backroads or a flood threat. The following sc ...











