Author: jock

Drive-offs have always been a problem for convenience stores and the like that sell gasoline. The term drive-offs is used when someone pumps their gas, then drives off without paying. With the price of...

We’ve seen many thefts at stores around the area…but here’s’ a new method. The flower shop at Food city West had completed a floral order for an Andrew Kirk. He was called and told...

The Tennessee Volunteers desperately needed a win after losing three of their last four games and watching their #2 ranking drop to a #10 ranking in just two weeks. Wednesday night at Thompson Boling...

A meeting being held tonight in Newport should interest all those with young children, especially those currently in the second or even more so the third grade. The Cocke County school system is hosting...

The inmate that jumped out of a second story Cocke County courtroom window is now out of the hospital and is back behind bars. Michael Dean Smith acted like he was getting a tissue...

Deputies and firefighters responded to a structure fire on Deerwood Road over the weekend. A witness stated she and her husband had noticed someone burning something in the yard before the structure had caught...

A warrant has been issued for a man after he pulled a gun on another man in Parrottsville over the weekend. Seth Neas told a Cocke County deputy that he and his wife Courtney...

A Cosby couple got a rude awakening early Monday morning. Michael & Phyllis Shropshire of English Mountain Road said they were in their home in bed around 1:30am Monday morning when they heard a...

Who doesn’t like pancakes? According to city officials in Gatlinburg, flapjacks have a rich history in the Great Smoky Mountains. For instance they say when logging camps were the rage in what is now...

We are learning a little more about the inmate that jumped out of a Cocke County \courtroom window Monday attempting to escape. Michael Dean Smith had been wanted for several charges in Waynesville, NC....