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Cumberland County Fair entries will be taken Thursday, August 14th from 2 to 6pm in the Adult & Youth Department except for baking, flowers, poultry, rabbits, crops, herbs, plants and honey. On Fr...

(From FGPD Press Release) On Friday (8/8/2025), the Tennessee Highway Safety Office presented awards at the Tennessee Lifesavers Conference, honoring outstanding efforts in traffic safety across the s...

The Crossville Police Department received 3rd place in the THSO Arrive Alive Law Enforcement Challenge in the 46-75 officer department category. This award recognizes the department's commitment to tr...

The Anderson County Sheriff's Office has released the identity of the person fatally shot at a residence on Sequoyah Road early Saturday morning. The deceased is 23-year-old Samuel Ridenour. The shoot...

A man wanted in connection to a fatal shooting Thursday morning in Athens, Tennessee has been captured. Carlos Quintana was initially called a Person of Interest in the shooting that killed one man an...

The Cookeville Police Department has made an arrest after 32 headstones were discovered knocked over and damaged at Cookeville City Cemetery on Walnut Avenue. Police say the suspect is a juvenile who ...

The TBI says a Jamestown man has been charged with violating the Sex Offender Registry. After receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children concerning child sexual abuse ...

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting four members of a family in West Tennessee and abandoning a 7-month-old girl in a stranger's yard. Twenty-eight-year-...

This Sunday (8/10/25) in Putnam County, there will be a THP assisted rolling roadblock between Exit 283/Tennessee Avenue eastbound and Exit 297/near Rocky Point overpass southbound, for utility work i...

Nightly milling and paving operations are scheduled to begin this Sunday (August 10, 2025) on I-40 from Mile Marker 300 to Mile Marker 307, in Putnam and Cumberland counties, from 7pm to 6am. During t...