Author: jock

Vols Take Down Bama

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...

Fire Destroys Mobile Home

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...

Warrant Issued For Newport Man

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...

Tree Strikes House

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...

More Information On Attempted Escape

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....

Food City Encounters Fake $100 Bill

Policed responded Sunday to Food City West in Newport about a man trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill. Management at Food City stated a black male had come into the store around 11:30am...