Author: jock

Police in Newport are looking for a black man driving a 2010 silver Toyota Avalon. The man is the suspect in a theft of two iPhones from Wal-Mart on Cosby Hwy on Saturday. According...

Two men are in jail after being arrested on drug charges in Cocke County. Dustin Potter and Matthew Huffaker were taken into custody on Monday after they were found with 1.1 grams of cocaine...

Get ready to enjoy the Great Smoky Mountains National Park…for free. Entrance into the park is still free, but back in March the national park insituted a parking pass policy. That policy requires all...

Police and fire crews responded to a vehicle fire over the weekend in Cocke County. 23 year old Jordan Shelton told a sheriff’s deputy that he was in the truck leaving his home when...

Many of you enjoyed the sales tax free weeknd over this past weekend. I can tell you first hand the Tanger Outlet Mall in Sevierville, that’s the green roof mall, that area was packed...

Sunday evening motorists on Highway 73 in Cocke County had something in the road they had to drive around. Actually it wasn’t a something, it was a someone. Motorists called 911 around 7pm last...

Employees at Weigel’s in Newport called police Wednesday night after they noticed a woman possibly overdosing in a car in the parking lot. An officer arrived and found the female subject sitting in a...

Cocke County and Newport School Resource Officers are attending a training seminar this week in Gatlinburg. The annual SRO school safety summit is being held at the Gatlinburg Conference Center. The training began yesterday...

The Newport Animal Shelter is closed today and will remain closed through the end of next week, so they will not be taking in any animals. The shelter is starting the process of moving...

An Ohio man is in custody in Cocke County after a major drug bust Wednesday. Narcotics agents with the Cocke County sheriff’s office were watching activity at the Dollar General Market in Cosby, as...