Author: jock

Last night the Newport City Council met in the council chambers at city hall. Among the items discussed was the first reading of an ordinance that would penalize businesses with beer licences that do...

Thanks to the Newport City Council’s action last night the city of Newport will soon have a bigger City Park. Last night at the council’s monthly meeting council members voted to approve the purchase...

A Jefferson County Corrections officer could soon be in the Jefferson County jail after investigators say he was paid to bring contraband into the facility. 25 year old Joshua Pounders of White Pine reportedly...

Early voting for the May 3rd primary starts today in Cocke County. Early voting this year is being done at a location in the Western Plaza Shopping Center…that’s the one with Food City West...

The Hamblen County Board of Education made a couple controversial moves last night in hiring a new Superintendent of schools. Until last night anyone hired for superintendent of schools in Hamblen County had to...

Sunday, police responded to the Quality Inn on Cosby Hwy in Newport. A man called police saying he woke up to find his wife in bed beside him…dead. Officers spoke with 64 year old...

Newport Police seized a significant amount of drugs from a man who was found asleep at the wheel of a vehicle at an ATM. Police were called to First Horizon bank on Cosby Hwy...

Cocke County deputies responded to a wreck with possible injuries on South Hwy 32 near Ramsey Road in Cosby. A pickup truck had driven off an embankment and the vehicle’s driver had climbed out...

Over the weekend police in Hawkins County had to deploy tear gas to end a standoff with a man in Rogersville. A resident had called 911 to report a man firing shots in a...

Hamblen County’s school board will be choosing a new leader for the school district today. One of the issues they will be tackling is if someone without educational experience should be the superintendent of...