Author: jock

You could be in the movies. A production company is filming a movie called “Homestead” right here in East Tennessee. The producer and the co-producers are all from east Tennessee and are looking for...

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has delivered more than 160 million books to children around the world since it began 26 years ago. This week, the program continued to be recognized when The Library of...

A man who robbed then took a convenience store employee hostage in Johnson City back in 2019 has been sentenced. Back on July 28, 2019, 37 year old Marc Kristopher Skeen of Limestone, TN...

The Cocke County Budget Committee meeting that was postponed due to the holiday last Monday will be held this coming Monday, September 13th and that will be in the Chancery Courtroom in the Cocke...

Police were called to investigate a woman passed out in a vehicle in a stall at Morristown’s Finest Car Wash. When an officer arrived the woman was pulling out of the carwash and onto...

The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a tribute to 9/11. This will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4pm on the south end of the courthouse. The ceremony is expected to last around...

Lakeway Publishers in Morristown told police this week that one of their employees had been the victim of fraud. Kim Wilaniskis stated on August 30th, she received an email from who she believed to...

The Jefferson County sheriff’s office has announced several arrests in what they are calling Operation Slingshot. With help from the 4th Judicial Drug Task Force and the K-9 unit, authorities made arrests in connection...

Cocke County has seen a decrease in deaths from Covid over the last 2 weeks…with just one death reported for the 2 week period ending on Wednesday September 8th…there are currently 625 cases in...

The Industrial Development Board for Newport & Cocke County will be holding a special meeting tonight at the Tanner Building in Newport. The main issue that will be discussed tonight is to consider a...