Hawkins County board to give contractor one last chance to fix leaks at...
ROGERSVILLE — Joseph Construction will have one more opportunity to repair the roof leaks at a Phipps Bend spec building before the Hawkins County Industrial Development Board turns the matter over to...
View ArticleLampLight Theatre seeking support for move to Strand
KINGSPORT — LampLight Theatre needs $4,500 in additional monthly support to move to Broad Street in downtown Kingsport. That’s the word from LampLight founder Billy Wayne Arrington, who met with...
View ArticleVolunteer High senior vying for 'America's Homecoming Queen'
MEMPHIS — Volunteer High School senior Emily Presnell was crowned Homecoming Queen this school year, after which she received a scholarship entry form for the “America’s Homecoming Queen” Scholarship...
View ArticleFBI takes UVA-Wise student into custody over campus gunman hoax
Update: 4 p.m. The Federal Bureau of Investigation took Bryant Alexander Hairston into custody on Monday from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Duffield to appear before a federal magistrate in...
View ArticleWoman charged with theft from Bristol non-profit; organization directed by...
A Kingsport woman is accused of stealing nearly $50,000 from a Bristol-based non-profit, which funds a Bluff City Christian radio station and is directed by Kenneth C. Hill — the Tennessee Regulatory...
View ArticlePipe bombs found at home of Bluff City attempted murder suspect
A man is charged with attempted murder in an alleged attack in Bluff City, where he reportedly armed himself with a gun, knife, baton and pipe bomb during a prolonged struggle with numerous people....
View ArticleMountain Home cemetery work helps keep vets off streets
James Barger was working at a local fast food restaurant when he got a stroke of good luck with a job at a cemetery. This was not just any cemetery, though. It was Mountain Home National Cemetery,...
View ArticleTwo charged with racing on East Stone Drive
The blotter is derived from recent central dispatch records and incident reports of area police agencies Kingsport Police Department Jan. 25 Shortly after 1 a.m. police observed two vehicles speeding...
View ArticleRogersville police allegedly find woman attempting to inject Opana ER in...
ROGERSVILLE — When Rogersville police interrupted a woman allegedly attempting to inject dissolved Opana ER into her arm Sunday afternoon, they probably saved her from potentially life-threatening...
View ArticleSchool burglary suspect denies crime before police tell him why he was being...
CHURCH HILL — A Hawkins County man accused of breaking into Carters Valley Elementary School last week was allegedly denying his role in the crime before police ever told him why he was being...
View ArticleJohnson City sees seven fire-related deaths in last 13 months
Seven fire-related deaths have occurred in Johnson City in the past 13 months, a number that is too high for a city this size, according to the fire chief. Recent deaths include a woman who was found...
View ArticleUpdate: Nashville woman IDed as victim in fatal Kingsport wreck
A Tuesday morning traffic crash in Kingsport killed a Nashville woman, who police say would have sustained less severe injuries had she been wearing her seatbelt. Hayley E. Byrd, 25, of Antioch Pike,...
View ArticleHaslam proposes $33.2 million for Northeast State facility, will speak on...
BLOUNTVILLE — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is expected talk more about his planned strategic education investments when he visits Northeast State Community College Friday for a 10:30 a.m. speech at the...
View ArticleKingsport man's attempt to pay fines prompts arrest on drug, weapons charges
A man who drove to the Justice Center in Blountville to pay traffic fines — getting himself spotted by police who knew his license was revoked — prompted his and another individual's arrest Monday,...
View ArticleHawkins officials ignore attorney's warning, OK Foundations display
ROGERSVILLE — The Hawkins County Commission voted unanimously Monday in favor of allowing a historical document display known as “Foundations of American Law and Government” to be hung in the lobby of...
View ArticleJC man gets 24 years in prison in son's accidental shooting death
A Johnson City man will spend the next 24 years in prison for convictions related to his son’s accidental shooting two years ago, a judge ruled Tuesday. But Christopher Mitchell won’t get out of prison...
View ArticleNine Tennessee, Virginia residents plead guilty to federal drug charges
ABINGDON — A total of nine residents from Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to their involvement in distributing prescription drugs across state lines....
View ArticleETSU Student Government votes yes on football
East Tennessee State University student senators Tuesday overwhelmingly supported starting a new football program in a historic vote that followed a passionate debate on the topic. Twenty-two Student...
View ArticleWoman, youths charged in burglaries
Officers with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department arrested a woman and two juveniles following an investigation into several auto burglaries, auto thefts and other thefts in the Eastern Star...
View ArticleSevere storms expected, region under tornado watch
Severe weather moving into the area Wednesday morning caused the National Weather Service to issue a tornado watch for all of East Tennessee and Parts of Southwest Virginia. The warning, which lasts...
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