“Roll Up Your Sleeve” Week With Medic
Get ready to roll up your sleeves…not to work…but to give blood. Next week is “roll up your sleeve” week with the Medic Regional Blood Center. Medic will be competing with the Texas Blood...
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Close Call For Newport Police Officer
A close call for Newport policer officer Wednesday evening. Patrolman Derek Wright had made a traffic stop on Hwy 25/70 near Greystone Way and had parked his police cruiser as such that traffic coming...
Tri- Cities Man Charged In Two Murders
A man is now in custody in the Tri-Cities suspected in connection with not one but two murders. A manhunt got underway on Thursday for Donald Britt after he was suspected of shooting and...
Jefferson Co. Man Arrested For Wife’s Murder
Police in Jefferson County have released the name of a woman killed by her husband late Wednesday night. The Jefferson County sheriff’s office says that shortly before midnight Wednesday night, a call came into...
Morristown Man Fires Shot At Another
A man called police in Morristown Wednesday afternoon saying he had been shot at by another man. Brandon Petrey told officers that while at a residence on Taft Street, Petrey got into a verbal...
More Information Released Regarding Christmas Blackouts
Christmas 2022 will be remembered for being the Christmas that left most of us in the dark at times. December 23rd and 24th, the TVA issued rolling blackout orders to the power companies that...
NU Partners With Tennessee Valley Authority
Newport Utilities announced Wednesday that it has partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority to award $22,000 in Community Care Funds to the Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority. Newport Utilities General Manager Michael Williford says that for...
Property Stolen Out Of Truck Friday
Police are looking into who sold some property that was stolen out of a truck in Newport on Friday. Brandon Baxter told police that he had parked his truck at Walgreen’s while he went...
Two Shoplifters Arrested
Two people were arrested trying to shoplift from the Wal-Mart on Crockett Trace in Morristown. Tiffany Simpson of Bean Station and John Morse of Rutledge were caught on their way out the door. Morse...
Man Wanted On Indictment In Jefferson County Arrested
Detectives in Morristown arrested a man Tuesday wanted on an indictment in Jefferson County. Police had received a tip that 37 year old Marcos Summerson was at a residence on Miller Street. Summerson was...