On Wednesday, Newport Utilities began a waterline replacement project on W Highway 25-70. This project runs from the intersection with Country Path Rd. to the intersection with Indian Creek Rd, or Highway 363. The...
2024 is a big election year, as there is a presidential election along with state and federal representative elections. Tennessee’s primary falls on the same day that many other states hold their state primaries....
Newport police were called to the Hometowne Laundry on Cope Blvd Monday evening. Concerned citizens had called 911 about a woman passed out at the wheel of a van and a child was in...
Another business has been burglarized in Newport. This time it was the China One restaurant in the Western Plaza. The suspect broke in the business back door, made their way to the cash register,...
US Representative Diana Harshbarger has introduced legislation targeting mental health for those in rural areas. The Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act would direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with...
A drug arrest in Cocke County earlier this week. US Marshals and the Cocke County Sheriff’s office had information that 39 year old Christopher Hinson of Dandridge was staying at the Motel 6 in...
A Hartford man faces two counts of aggravated assault after an incident at home in Hartford on Monday. Nancy Taylor told deputies that her son, Dustin Miller, had been fine then went into the...
A Cocke County man has been charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon after police say he fired a shot at his wife. Arda Cordero told deputies that her husband,...
Another burglary to report in the area, but this one was a barn. The barn is in the Bybee area and is owned by Matthew Ferrell of Greeneville. Ferrell told Cocke County deputies that...
Students went back to school in Russellville in Hamblen County yesterday. Students were forced into virtual learning classes last week after a truck drove into the school…literally. Last week a man suffered a medical...