One Dead After Monday Shooting In White Pine
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...
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Crews Respond To Fire In Cosby Area During Snowstorm
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...
East Tennessee Hit By Winter Storm
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 Rise In December
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...
Helicopter Crash In Cosby – One Killed
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...
Motorcycle Crash Leads to Arrest
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...
NUB Gives Approval For NU Connect Rate Increase
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...
NUB Awards Two Grants
Newport Utility Board held their December meeting on Tuesday. During that meeting, Newport Utilities gave out a couple late Christmas gifts to Douglas Cherokee and Cosby Elementary School in the form of $20,000 community...
Dandridge Man Arrested After 1 Vehicle Crash On Indian Camp Creek Road
Cocke County police responded to a one vehicle crash Monday on Indian Camp Creek Road…the vehicle in the crash reportedly matched the description of one that the Newport Police Department had put a “be...
Dandridge PD Hosting Handgun Permit Class
The Dandridge Police Department will be holding a Handgun Permit Class coming up in January. Due to a law that went into effect on July 1st of this year, you are no longer required...