Five states, including Tennessee, to increase class time in some schools
WASHINGTON -- Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states were to announce Monday that they will add at...
View ArticleSullivan County sheriff's auction includes two mobile homes
For nearly three years the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office has been auctioning off property to the public at GovDeals.com — but has yet to list anything quite like the current offerings. Through Dec....
View ArticleMSHA hopes to make quick transition at Unicoi County hospital
ERWIN — Mountain States Health Alliance will look to begin work quickly at Unicoi County Memorial Hospital following the UCMH Board of Control’s Wednesday decision to accept MSHA’s proposal to acquire...
View ArticleChurch Hill looks to restrict or prohibit for-profit peddlers
CHURCH HILL — Church Hill leaders will be presented next month with a proposed ordinance that would either prohibit, or at least restrict, “for profit” peddling within the city limits.Mayor Dennis Deal...
View ArticleUpdate: Woman hit by truck at KATS bus stop dies
UPDATE: 3:25 p.m. An 83-year-old Kingsport woman was killed Monday after reportedly stepping in front of a vehicle on Fairview Avenue. The incident occurred shortly before noon Monday at a Kingsport...
View ArticleIntoxicated woman allegedly flashes Kingsport police
The blotter is derived from recent central dispatch records and incident reports of area police agencies. Kingsport Police Department Nov. 29 Police were dispatched to a domestic disturbance on Spruce...
View ArticleNeighbors talk about man found dead in burned Johnson City home
JOHNSON CITY — A Johnson City man died in a house fire early Monday morning, about 24 hours after his brother died in his sleep at the same residence, according to the men’s neighbors. City fire...
View ArticleWendy Welch concludes library's Appalachian Homecoming Series
Wendy Welch is the final speaker in the Washington County Public Library's "Appalachian Homecoming" series. She will discuss her book, "The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap," Sunday Dec. 9 at 3 p.m....
View ArticleKingsport panel recommends fees for using aquatic center
KINGSPORT — City staff, working in conjunction with an eight-member advisory board, have recommended the daily, seasonal and annual membership rates of the aquatic center along with the projected...
View ArticleScott County man pleads guilty to perjury in connection to murder case
GATE CITY — A now-discredited eyewitness whose testimony led to a man being wrongly accused of a Christmas 2011 murder in Nickelsville pleaded guilty to perjury charges Friday in Scott County Circuit...
View ArticleSullivan County Board of Education approves 2013-14 calendar
BLOUNTVILLE — The votes are in, and the winner is Sullivan County school calendar A that starts Aug. 5. The county’s Board of Education Monday night voted 6-1 that the 2013-14 school calendar will...
View ArticleRogersville man charged with stealing drain grates from car washes
A Rogersville man has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing $2,300 worth of metal drain grates from Church Hill car washes. Joel Brian Morelock, 26, of 414 Grassy Creek Road, was...
View ArticleUPDATE: Child sex abuse suspect allegedly says he 'enjoyed' the incidents,...
UPDATE: 3:45 p.m. A Kingsport man indicted on more than 60 counts related to sexual abuse of a juvenile male — and suspected of abusing at least nine additional 8 to 17-year-olds over the past 20 years...
View ArticleSullivan to make offer to settle lawsuit over arrest attempt that destroyed...
BLOUNTVILLE — Sullivan County will offer $85,000 in an attempt to settle a $1.5 million lawsuit against the county, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, and sheriff’s office employees. The Sullivan...
View ArticleWorld's oldest person, ETSU alumna Besse Cooper dies at age 116
MONROE, Ga. — The East Tennessee State University graduate who was listed as the world’s oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at age 116. Besse Cooper died peacefully Tuesday afternoon in...
View ArticleHealth officials urging Mountain Empire residents to be prepared for cold...
BLOUNTVILLE — Health officials from across Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee are urging the public to get ready for winter weather. “It will get cold eventually,” Sullivan County Regional...
View ArticleETSU students' opinions about guns on campus vary
Varied opinions are held by students at East Tennessee State University regarding legislation that could allow guns to be kept in vehicles parked on campus. Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, speaking...
View ArticleJohnson City man charged with assaulting three
A 36-year-old Johnson City man was jailed Tuesday after three people showed up at a local hospital with injuries from a Hamilton Street incident, police said in a news release. Ronnie R. Britt, 2309...
View ArticleJohnson City cancer doctor to plead guilty in misbranded drug case
A doctor at the center of a "misbranded" medication scandal that effectively shut down one of the area’s most renowned cancer treatment centers will plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Greeneville...
View ArticleUPDATE: Murder-suicide investigated at home of retired Kingsport business...
UPDATE: 3:28 p.m. Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide in the Ridgefields community, where the co-founder of a Kingsport financial planning firm and his wife were found dead late Tuesday...
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