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Crossville City Council approves a motion to allow alcohol to be served on city property
The Crossville City Council approved a motion by Mayor James Mayberry to allow alcohol on city owned property within the city limits. Those wishing to provide alcohol on such properties will be requir...
Ronni Chase May 11, 2022
City of Crossville sales tax revenue remains strong
Crossville City Manager Greg Wood reports sales tax collections for February are above the previous year. The City's share of sales tax came in at just under $790,000. Wholesale beer tax collections a...
Ronni Chase May 11, 2022
Nashville Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder By Arson Released From Prison Tuesday After Almost 30 Years Behind Bars
A Nashville man walked out of Riverbend Prison a free man on Tuesday, thirty years after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his girlfriend by arson in 1992. Claude Garrett had been behind bars f...
May 10, 2022
Cumb. Co. BOE To Hold Special Called Meeting Thursday, May 12, 2022 At 5pm
The Cumberland County Board of Education will hold a Special Called Meeting on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. in the boardroom at Central Services. Other BOE meetings scheduled this month: May 11...
Ronni Chase May 10, 2022
GSMNP Rangers Find Body Of Elderly Cocke County Man In River
Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers found the body of an elderly Cocke County man partially submerged in the middle of a river Monday afternoon. The body of 72-year-old Charles Queen, of Bybee...
May 10, 2022
Tennessee Guardsmen receive award for Smoky Mountain rescue mission
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Four members of the Tennessee National Guard's 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion received the Children's Emergency Care Alliance of Tennessee's Star of Life award, May 4, for the...
Ronni Chase May 10, 2022
TCAT Crossville Cosmetology Offering Free Haircuts To First Responders This Month!
TCAT Crossville has a special offer for First Responders! TCAT Cosmetology is offering FREE haircuts to First Responders, Law Enforcement, EMS, Fire Departments, Corrections and Dispatchers during the...
Ronni Chase May 10, 2022
Athens Man Charged With Arson
TBI Press Release: McMINN COUNTY, TN - An investigation by special agents and fire investigators with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, along with the Etowah Police and Fire departments, has resu...
Ronni Chase May 10, 2022
Escaped Alabama Inmate Casey White Captured In Indiana, Former Corrections Officer Vicky White Dies From Self-Inficted Gunshot Wound
The 10-day manhunt ended Monday (5/9/2022) for an escaped Alabama inmate and the former corrections officer accused of helping him. Authorities say they were tipped off that Casey White and Vicky Whit...
May 09, 2022
Sweetwater Woman Charged In Boating Fatality
TWRA Press Release; Tellico --- The Monroe County Grand Jury has indicted 25-year-old Amanda L. English of Sweetwater on charges of Criminally Negligent Homicide and Child Neglect. English was arreste...
May 09, 2022