Kingsport BOE cuts $2.1 million to balance budget
KINGSPORT — The Kingsport Board of Education voted 4-1 Thursday night to close a $2.4 million budget gap and balance its 2012-13 budget. The BOE used some increased revenue projections to close the...
View ArticleSullivan panel sees no progress in budget talks
BLOUNTVILLE — Despite numerous meetings in recent weeks — the most recent Thursday evening — there’s no end in sight for development of Sullivan County’s budget for the 12-month cycle that begins July...
View ArticleBig Stone Gap woman arrested in Duffield bank robbery
GATE CITY — Authorities in Scott County arrested a female suspect Thursday in Big Stone Gap in connection with a robbery that occurred the day before at the BB&T Bank in Duffield. The Scott County...
View ArticleJudge denies Howard Hawk Willis' motion for new trial in double murder...
Howard Hawk Willis’ trial and conviction for murdering a teenage couple from Georgia was without error and nothing in the record warrants a new trial, according to the presiding judge who issued a...
View ArticleAlleged Duffield bank robbery suspect took car for test drive, used it as...
GATE CITY -- Scott County authorities arrested a Big Stone Gap woman at her home Thursday night in connection with a robbery that occurred the day before at the BB&T Bank in Duffield.Tabitha Nicole...
View ArticleBristol woman's loud praises (and curses) lead to charges
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman says she was just praising the Lord, although at high volume, when she received a citation accusing her of violating the city's noise ordinance. She later was...
View ArticleKingsport man arrested, allegedly threatened man, woman, and child with...
A Kingsport man faces multiple charges after allegedly threatening to harm a man, woman and child with a chainsaw and a knife.According to a Sullivan County Sheriff's Office report, Joshua Lofty, 34,...
View ArticlePolice charge mother with neglect after kids go missing from playground
Police charged a Johnson City woman with child neglect Thursday after she allowed her two children to walk to a school playground unattended and they briefly went missing, police said in a news...
View ArticlePedestrian in critical condition after being hit by car in Gate City
GATE CITY — A Gate City man received traumatic injuries Friday after he was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross West Jackson Street. Albert Bishop, 34, was transported to Holston Valley...
View ArticleTrial date set for man accused of assaulting, throwing hot grease at elderly...
A Johnson City man accused of throwing hot grease at his 80-year-old mother and holding a knife to her throat last month is scheduled to go trial in July. Police arrested Mark R. Hurst, 53, on May 29,...
View ArticleBlue Dragons Rifle Team wins top spot in national competition
KINGSPORT — Two Kingsport teens and a Loudon High School graduate, members of the Blue Dragons Rifle Team of Knoxville, recently won the national championship for indoor air rifle at the NRA National...
View ArticleTennessee cities pulling out of state pension plan
The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System bills itself as “one of the best-funded pension plans in the nation,” but some local governments have been pulling their new hires out of the plan. The city...
View ArticleKing students headed to Chicago
BRISTOL, Tenn. — On Sunday, 13 students from King College’s Teacher Education Program will depart the Tri-Cities region, bound for the Chicago Oak Park School District. Ten teacher education students...
View ArticleIce Age expert to appear on BBC documentary
A BBC documentary on the Ice Age is being filmed this weekend in Saltville, Va., and will feature an expert on the topic from East Tennessee State University. Blaine Schubert, director of the Don...
View ArticleCough gives away Hawkins man who threatened to kill ex-girlfriend, her son,...
CHURCH HILL — A man who allegedly burgled his ex-girlfriend’s home and later threatened to kill her, her son and police, was discovered hiding in a nearby woods after police heard him cough.Around...
View ArticleThree charged after drug raid by Kingsport police
KINGSPORT — Three people were arrested on drug charges Friday after the Kingsport Police Department’s Vice Unit executed a search warrant at 305 Bay Meadow. Police said approximately 5 ounces of crack...
View ArticleEducate and Grow program still subject to cuts in Sullivan County budget...
BLOUNTVILLE — A scholarship program that’s helped about 2,500 local high school graduates go on to college hasn’t yet been declared off limits from potential government cuts as Sullivan County...
View ArticleSullivan North to receive nearly $127,000 for scholarships
KINGSPORT — More college scholarships will be going out to future Sullivan North High School graduates, thanks to a trust fund set up by the late Bill Neil. The amount is almost $127,000. The former...
View ArticleHawkins County drug suspects charged; child in car eats their dinner
ROGERSVILLE — Two Hawkins County drug suspects pulled into the Rogersville Sonic restaurant Friday afternoon and ordered meals for themselves but not for the 9-year-old child who was with them. By the...
View ArticleUnited Way of Greater Kingsport recognizes work of Big Brothers Big Sisters...
The United Way of Greater Kingsport recognized the work of Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee last month and presented the organization with a check for $75,000. The United Way’s board of...
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