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A man accidentally blew up a toilet in a local motel room Monday morning. Police were called to the Family Inn on Cosby Hwy shortly after 1am Monday after a structure fire was reported...

Newport police are investigating after two people dropped off a dead body in the ambulance bay at the Newport Medical Center. Sunday morning around 3:19 am a pearl white colored SUV, possibly a Lincoln,...

Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnigan was honored over the weekend by Walters State Community College. Jarnigan was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from Walters State. The college honored for Jarnigan with a ceremony...

The next commodities distribution in Cocke County has been announced. The Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority will host the commodity food distribution on Valentine’s Day…Tuesday February 14th from 9am-2pm. That will be at the National...

Congratulations are in order for the Newport Grammar School boys and girls basketball teams. Both are heading to Cherokee High School in Rogersville tomorrow night to play for the area championship. First the girls...

The public board meeting to be held tonight at 5:30 at the Newport City Hall, has been canceled due to inclement weather .

Cocke County police are still looking for a missing Hartford woman. A Silver Alert has been issued for 64-year-old Kathryn Bruce on Saturday. Kathryn was last seen on Jan. 6th at her residence in...

Cocke county and East Tennessee waking up to a blanket of white this morning. However, the storm that was supposed to pack a punch for the mountains did not deliver near the amount of...

New information continues to be released about that helicopter crash at the Cocke County Sevier County line in Cosby a few weeks ago. According to the NTSB, the pilot and his passenger traveled from...

That shooting last Monday at the Pilot Truck Stop in White Pine is now a triple homicide. The last shooting victim has died…Reverend Kenny Cook died at UT Medical Center, he had been on...