Category Archives: (WOWF 102.5 WOW COUNTRY) Local News

Tennessee Riverkeeper, an environmental group founded in 2009, has announced plans to file a lawsuit against the town of Monterey. The group alleges that the Monterey Sewage Treatment Plant violated t...

Nineteen passengers and one worker were stranded over 65 feet in the air Wednesday night after a carnival ride malfunctioned in Erin, Tennessee. Multiple agencies responded but only the Montgomery Cou...

A Clover Lane resident reported the theft of items from their mail. According to Cumberland County Sheriff deputy reports, the victim went to the Sheriff's Office to report CPAP supplies valued at $38...

A Crossville man told police that he is being blackmailed by a prostitution ring. The victim said he responded to an ad on a website for an escort and paid by using $200 worth of gift cards. He was la...

Crossville Police are hoping to identify the suspect who vandalized the property of Cumberland Good Samaritans Thrift Store. On Sunday, March 9th, a blue Dodge Ram truck backed up into a pole in the t...

A Cumberland County woman has fallen victim to a credit card scam. According to the Sheriff's Office, the victim said she was contacted by a man claiming to be an agent with her credit card company wh...

An elderly Cumberland County woman has lost thousands in a Publishers Clearing House Scam. The victim's son contacted the Sheriff's Office to report that someone called his mother and told her that sh...

A Crossville man has lost hundreds of dollars in an online contest scam. The victim contacted the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday (3/12/25) and reported that a week prior he had been m...

A Johnson City man has been charged after he allegedly shot a police officer Wednesday night. He has been identified as 55-year-old Timothy D. Blair. Early Thursday morning, agents obtained a warrant ...

Eighty-two of Tennessee's 95 counties reported unemployment rates for January below 5% but that wasn't the case for Cumberland County, which had a 5.4% jobless rate for the first month of the year. Th...