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 ...
LIGHT-LAW VIOLATION RESULTS IN SUSPENDED LICENSE ARREST IN ROANE COUNTY
Early Saturday morning, a Roane County deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Shenandoah Drive in Rockwood. The driver, 26-year-old William Dakota Stamps Hale, said his license was suspended ...
MELTON, DAGAN ARRESTED AFTER TRAFFIC STOP IN ROANE COUNTY
Friday morning, Roane County deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle whose driver was behaving erratically and whose registration came back to a different car. The driver, 54-year-old William L ...
MAN GRAZED BY CAR IN ROCKWOOD GROCERY STORE PARKING LOT
Rockwood police, fire and an ambulance responded to the North Gateway IGA around 12:15 today to investigate a report of a man struck by a car in the parking lot. Few details are available, but there w ...
TAYLOR CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT OF FELLOW INMATE
At 7:30 Sunday morning, deputies responded to an incident in the Cumberland County jail. Thirty-year-old inmate Tiffani Lee Taylor struck another female inmate with a hard-plastic food tray, causing a ...
WOMAN SAID SON HIT HER WITH GOLF CLUB; DIDN’T MENTION SHE CHOKED HIM FIRST
Responding to a domestic-assault call Saturday night, Cumberland County deputies encountered 38-year-old Tiffany Nicole Warner of McMinnville, who claimed her son hit her with a golf club. What she n ...
DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER ENGAGING KNOXVILLE POLICE IN CHASE, CRASHING IN LAKE
A report of bizarre events led to a foot chase after a Kodak man careened into Fountain City Lake over the weekend. Knoxville police were alerted Sunday to a man stopped at a stop sign, punching hims ...
NASHVILLE MAN ARRESTED AFTER WIFE FINDS VIDEO OF HIM RAPING 5-YEAR-OLD
A Nashville man is under arrest at this hour on charges of raping a 5-year-old boy. John Calvillo is being held in Metro Jail on $150,000 bond after his wife found a video on her husband’s cellphone t ...
SEVIER COUNTY TEACHER SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FOLLOWING ARREST
The Sevier County School System has suspended a teacher without pay after an assault arrest. John Wade, a music teacher at Pittman Center Elementary School, was suspended without pay by Superintendent ...
