A vehicle pursuit by both Jefferson and Sevier County police, ended in Cocke County when that vehicle crashed. Dispatch notified Newport police that Jefferson and Sevier county deputies had terminated their pursuit of a...
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a fatal weekend shooting in White Pine. Deputies were called Saturday afternoon to an address on Beth Carr Road around 1:30pm Saturday. Deputies found one person...
The Tennessee Volunteers have moved up a spot in the AP Top 25 poll that was released on Sunday. The Vols defeated Mississippi State 33-14 Saturday night and move up from #7 to #6...
Several people are lucky to be alive after they drove around the Road Closed barrier on I-40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina line and wound up down near the Pigeon River after driving off a...
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security is reminding residents of the state of an important deadline coming up in six months. The REAL ID Act of 2005, requires anyone 18 years old...
Monday is Veterans Day, November 11. Banks will be closed and there will be no postal delivery that day. The Cocke County High School though will be busy as they will be having their...
In their quest to find lodging for those who have been displaced due to the recent flood, FEMA is now looking for owners or property-management companies that would be interested in leasing their properties...
Two Jefferson County cities are now going to get something they haven’t had in the past, liquor stores. Both White Pine and Dandridge passed referendums that were on the November 5 ballot to allow...
Some good news for travelers. The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday that they are expecting to have traffic flowing on Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge again by New Years’...
The Cocke County Sheriff’s office is investigating a rather large theft. Venture Contracting Excavating of Parrottsville told the sheriff’s office they were working at the site on Timber Trail in Newport on Wednesday October...