Author: jock

A fatal fire in Greene County Sunday. According to Greene County sheriff Wesley Holt, a call came into 911 shortly after 7 am and crews were dispatched to a home on Choctaw Dr. The...

State revenue numbers were released Friday for the month of December and the month turned out better than expected and exceeded the monthly revenues from the previous year. Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration...

The Cocke County Economic Development Commission and the Cocke County Partnership will be meeting Thursday night at Newport City Hall. Lots going on so far in 2023 as things are developing with the new...

Eleven people are now in custody after what the Cocke County Sheriff’s office called “Operation Friday, The 13th”…which was executed on Friday the 13th. The undercover operation has resulted in charges of 14 counts...

Gary Ball, the Newport man that sent police on a pursuit and locked down part of the county on December 9th has now been indicted by a Cocke County Grand Jury. You might recall...

Storms passed through Cocke County Thursday afternoon leaving a trail of downed trees and limbs in their wake. The storm left over 2,000 Newport Utility customers without power. Most of them were in the...

Friday afternoon, Newport police were involved in a chase with a vehicle driving recklessly through neighborhoods and a school zone. The chase began when Detective Will Garber saw a vehicle on Alex Street barreling...

Police were called to the Food City West in Newport Saturday about an unresponsive female found on the store’s restroom floor. Officers found 28 year old Brittany McCarter on the women’s restroom floor with...

Cocke County police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man who chased a woman with a gun early Friday morning. Four people, including two juveniles were in a white Jeep on...

Investigators with the TBI says they now know the identity of remains that were found in a golf bag along Douglas Lake in 2019. The TBI says those remains belong to Earl Joseph Pizzoferrato,...