Tennessee counties have an opportunity to improve safety for crime victims when they appear in court to support charges against perpetrators. The Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP) is working to help community leaders...
What was supposed to be a stop of a shoplifter turned out to be a drug arrest in Morristown on New Years’ Eve. Loss prevention at Wal-Mart on Crockett Trace had observed a man...
Two people were killed in a car accident in Gatlinburg Sunday. The two victims were traveling in the same car and were from Georgia. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol…22 year old Matthew Lee...
A child custody dispute had led to a shooting death. The incident happened at the Pilot Travel Center at Exit 4 off I-81 in White Pine. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting...
Fire crews responded to a home this morning on Upper Bison Way. The call for that fire coming in around 6:45 this morning. Several crews responded including the Cosby Volunteer Fire Department. When crews...
Most of East Tennessee was included in a Winter Storm Warning Monday. Temperatures dropped rapidly in the early morning hours changing rain to snow very quickly around 3:30am. Most areas getting anywhere from 2-4″,...
Covid cases continue to rise in East Tennessee…most from the Omicron variant. For the 2 week period of December 16th-29th…Cocke County reported 414 total cases…with 221 of those coming in the past 7 days…and...
The FAA is investigating the crash of a helicopter in Cosby at the Sevier County line. That crash left one person dead and another critically injured. The copter went down in a heavily wooded...
Tuesday night Newport police pursued a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed on Morrell Springs Road. That motorcycle nearly struck another vehicle head on. While in pursuit, that motorcycle failed to navigate...
If you have Newport Utilities NU Connect for TV service, your rates will be going up a little in the new year. Yesterday at the Newport Utility Board’s monthly meeting, the board gave the...