BMA candidates discuss quality of life projects
KINGSPORT — Election day is less than a month away and early voting begins this week. In Kingsport, two incumbents and three challengers are vying for three seats on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen....
View ArticleSen. Corker calls for review of TVA, not sale
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker thinks a possible sale of the Tennessee Valley Authority will not help solve the nation’s debt problems, but thinks the utility should be reviewed as called for in President Barack...
View ArticleAppeals court affirms Kingsport murderer's conviction
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentencing of a Kingsport murderer. In June of 2006 Michael D. Fields reportedly entered the Arbor Place garage apartment of Glen...
View ArticleSullivan mayor 'preaches' against Obama, gay NBA player and other stories you...
The following are some interesting stories you may have missed last week on timesnews.net Sullivan mayor 'preaches' against Obama, gay NBA player To mark National Day of Prayer, Sullivan County Mayor...
View ArticleKingsport man arrested in alleged roofing scam
A Kingsport man has been arrested on felony theft charges after allegedly scamming a 65-year-old city resident out of nearly $3,500. Police records state the suspect presented himself as a roofing...
View ArticleMountain States, Vanderbilt to work together in NE Tennessee, SW Virginia
Leaders of Mountain States Health Alliance and Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced this morning that they had signed an affiliation agreement affecting health care for residents of Northeast...
View ArticleSchool budget request to BMA now at $11.6 million
KINGSPORT — City school leaders have cut a 2013-14 budget shortfall from $3.2 million to about $1.8 million. They did it mostly with cuts in proposed expenditures — including a reduction of the...
View ArticleJohnson City police release ECU robbery details, photo
JOHNSON CITY — On Friday, May 3, 2013, at approximately 10:22 a.m., the Eastman Credit Union Branch located at 4307 N. Roan Street, Suite # 1, Johnson City was robbed. A white male subject,...
View ArticleFormer Southwest Virginia police officer sentenced for sending sexual...
GATE CITY — A former police officer for the town of Coeburn will spend the next year in prison after he was sentenced Friday in Scott County Circuit Court for using Facebook to solicit sex from a...
View ArticleTBI arrests Greene County couple in infant daughter's death
GREENEVILLE — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested a Greene County couple Friday on murder and other charges stemming from the death of their infant daughter in September 2012. The couple was...
View ArticleCity BOE endorses bid for Jackson Elementary secure entrance
KINGSPORT — Jackson Elementary School’s new secure entrance is a step closer to construction, as are repairs to the cracked tennis court surface at Dobyns-Bennett High School. The Board of Education...
View ArticleRelative wants answers in WCDC inmate's death
A relative of a Johnson City man who died while custody at the Washington County Detention Center this week wants answers about his death. Alan Sieckman, grandfather of Stewart W. Peppers, 22, 606...
View ArticlePERFECT: Sullivan South junior aces ACT
KINGSPORT — Taylor Pinto made a 34 out of a possible 36 ACT score his sophomore year of high school. He at first thought about letting that be his final try at the test. After all, that was an...
View ArticleSullivan County Sheriff's Office now has collection bin for unwanted medication
BLOUNTVILLE — Unwanted medications now have their own special place at the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Tennessee Department...
View ArticleThis week in crime
Former Kingsport pastor sentenced for solicitation of aggravated statutory rape A former Kingsport pastor has been sentenced to approximately one year in jail for his sexually explicit texts and phone...
View ArticleAquatic center memberships lag far behind Y sign-ups
KINGSPORT — More than 1,200 people have joined the YMCA since December in the lead-up to the opening of its new facility. By comparison, less than 50 people have joined the Kingsport Aquatic Center...
View ArticleKingsport Theatre Guild stages 'Tuesdays with Morrie'
The Tuesdays that journalist Mitch Albom spent with his dying 78-year-old sociology professor Morrie Schwartz taught Albom life’s greatest lesson — how to live. Schwartz taught sociology at Brandeis...
View ArticleU.S. News & World Report gives Sullivan South bronze ranking, researching D-B
KINGSPORT — Sullivan South High School has brought home the academic bronze. And Dobyns-Bennett High School might have been at the silver level and possibly in the top 10 or so statewide if it were not...
View ArticleRed Cross director urges public to be prepared in case of tornado
After devastating tornadoes hit parts of Greene, Washington and Sullivan counties in recent years, many people were asking: what could I have done to better prepare myself and my family? There are many...
View ArticleSullivan County's monthly sales tax collections down
BLOUNTVILLE — Monthly sales tax collections across Sullivan County, and the subsequent revenue to local school systems and governments, remain down for the fiscal year to date, according to a report...
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