HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE ON KANSAS LANE
Oliver Springs firefighters responded to a structure blaze on Kansas Lane in the Kellytown community late this morning. They arrived to find the home heavily involved in flames. No one was inside at t ...
TENNESSEE QUIT SMOKING WEEK PROCLAIMED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Cumberland County Mayor Allen Foster has signed a proclamation declaring “Tennessee Quit Smoking Week.” It is as follows: WHEREAS, the United States Surgeon General has stated that smoking remains t ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – SAT/SUN, FEBRUARY 20-21, 2021
This is a combined report for Saturday and Sunday, February 20-21, 2021: The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 27,502 active cases (down ...
TROOPERS RESPOND TO TRUCK ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY 127 SOUTH
The Tennessee Highway Patrol worked a property damage truck crash with a dozer that overturned Friday afternoon in Bledsoe County. The accident took place on Highway 127 near the Cumberland County lin ...
FATAL SHOOTING REPORTED IN MONTEREY
Putnam County deputies and Monterey police responded this afternoon to a call at 2730 Old Walton Road, a county owned waste management facility, regarding a shooting incident. Authorities say 59-year- ...
BODY OF VICTOR LETNER DISCOVERED; ARRESTS MADE
The body of a missing Roane Countian has been found in East Knox County. Law enforcement located 33-year-old Victor Letner off of Kodak Road. He sustained a fatal gunshot wound. Letner was last seen ...
UPPER CUMBERLAND AND TENNESSEE VALLEY COVID-19 REPORT – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2021
The following is from today’s Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 report: STATE OF TENNESSEE – 28,521 active cases (down 989 from yesterday) in Tennessee out of 762,673 total cases. •734,152 reco ...
E.M.S. INSTALLS UV DISINFECTION SYSTEM IN AMBULANCES
Cumberland County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has taken proactive measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious pathogens, by recently installing an ultraviolet lighting system i ...
FATALITY FROM WINTER STORM REPORTED IN UPPER CUMBERLAND
Authorities say a 70-year-old Overton Countian passed away yesterday while trying to seek help after being without power for several days. The gentleman was attempting to walk to a neighbor’s home in ...
ROBERTS JR. INDICTED BY GRAND JURY FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER
A Roane County grand jury has indicted 48-year-old Charles Edward Roberts, Jr. of Philadelphia, Tennessee for attempted first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery and two counts each of aggrav ...
REPORT: SHEPHERD HAD METH IN BLOOD SYSTEM DURING FATAL VEHICLE CRASH
A TBI toxicology report indicates 25-year-old Michael Don Shepherd had meth in his blood system at the time of a fatal vehicle accident last month in Cookeville. He was charged with evading arrest and ...
WHAT WILL CUMBERLAND CO. SCHOOL SYSTEM DO IF THEY RUN OUT OF SNOW DAYS?
What will the Cumberland County School System do if they run out of snow days? As of today (February 19, 2021), they have one left until the end of this school year. Director of Schools Dr. Ina Maxw ...
