Author: jock

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...

Here’s something you don’t see every day…a man running through people’s yards with…a machete. It happened in Morristown on Sunday in the area of Laurel Street and Hale Avenue. Police had been dispatched to...

Morristown police arrested a known criminal over the Labor Day weekend after observing him leaving an address on Shareef Drive. 22 year old Jordan Holt had several warrants for his arrest in Hamblen County....

Cocke County police were called over the Labor Day weekend to a fight in progress at Dean’s Bar that’s on Armory Road. One man who was bleeding from his chest and arms claimed he...

A woman showed up at the Cocke County jail Sunday to report she had been assaulted. Megan Leann Wilson told deputies that she was “choked” and “shot with a BB Gun.” Wilson stated she...

A woman was arrested for DUI after running into a parked semi. It happened Sunday at the Family Inn on west Hwy 25/70. The manager of the motel showed police where a Ford Focus...