A National Board that is chaired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and includes representatives from numerous national charities has awarded Cocke County with federal funds in the amount of...
A traffic stop wound up in a drug arrest Saturday in Newport. Police say they attempted to pull over a vehicle Saturday night shortly before 8pm due to no tag and no taillight. The...
More information has been released about that bank robbery that happened in Newport Friday. According to Newport Police, the suspect got out of the driver’s side of a Ford Mustang and went inside the...
Police are investigating the break-in at a local barbecue restaurant that happened over the weekend. On Sunday morning, police responded to a break in at Hillbilly’s Barbecue on west Broadway in Newport. Owner John...
A Newport woman had to be transported to the hospital in Knoxville with serious injuries after being struck by a car on Cosby Hwy Friday. Zachary Amick told police that he was driving northbound...
There have been several brush fires in East Tennessee lately. That has led the state of Tennessee Department of Agriculture Forestry Division to remind residents that burn permits are required through the middle of...
It isn’t very often anymore that a bill passes in the Tennessee State House…unanimously. However, it did it happen on Monday. The state house passed legislation that would increase the penalty for threatening violence...
A tragic situation in Jefferson County over the weekend. Police were called to a home in New Market where a 23 month old child nearly drowned in a swimming pool. Family members at the...
The Tennessee Volunteers men’s basketball team is headed back to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row. The Vols nailed late free throws Saturday night to take down coach Rick Barnes’...
Saturday afternoon, a Cocke County Deputy, LT. Danny Ray Reece, spotted something unusual on Cosby Hwy. A vehicle traveling with both back doors open and a large tv hanging out both sides of the...