Author: News Staff

About 100 family members and friends joined National Secretary of Defense Robert Gates yesterday morning to say goodbye to an area soldier. Fellow soldiers laid U.S. Army Spc. Fred Greene…

Two Virginia Utility Companies Are Proposing Rate Hikes. The State Corporation Commission In Southwest Virginia Is Holding Public Hearings This Week Into What Electric Customers Have To Say About The…

A January Trial Date Has Been Set For A Kingsport Teen Facing Attempted Murder Charges Following A Stabbing At A City Business. 18 Year Old Phillip Mullins Is Alleged To…

The 2009 Edition Of America’s Health Rankings Is Out And Tennessee And Virginia Don’t Fare Very Well When It Comes To Overall Health Conditions. Virginia Is Ranked 21st And Tennessee…

The Cocke County Board Of Education Will Be Receiving 154-Thousand Dollars For Video Conferencing Equipment To Link 12 Rural Schools With The High School And The Workforce Development Center In…

A Bristol Virginia Man Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Rob A City Market At Knifepoint Has Been Indicted By A Sullivan County Grand Jury On Felony Charges. 28 Year Old…

The family of a Tennessee soldier killed with 12 others in the shooting spree at Fort Hood will be laid to rest today with full military honors in Mountain City.…

Santa’s Helpers Will Be Busy Packing Gifts For The Santa Train This Evening In Kingsport. Volunteers Will Be Working Outside Food City On North Eastman Road Between 5 And 9…

Two Brothers Accused Of Assaulting A Man At A Kingsport Bar Have Pled Guilty To A Lesser Charge In Sullivan County Criminal Court. Jeremy And Donnie Hutchins Pled Guilty To…

Two Of Three Virginia Teens Accused In A Murder-For-Hire Plot Have Had Trial Dates Set In Scott County Circuit Court. 18 Year Old Donovan Meade And 18 Year Old Taylor…

An Employee Of Bristol Tennssee Essential Services Has Been Killed After Being Electrocuted While Working On A Power Pole In Sullivan County. The Accident Happened On Hickory Tree Road Tuesday…

The Tennessee Division Of Occupational Safety And Health Is Recommending A Fine Be Levied Against A Cleveland Tennessee Construction Company For Safety Violations That Led To The Death Of A…

A former merchant contends that selling merchandise branded with slogans and pictures critical of President Barack Obama got him evicted from an East Tennessee mall. Dan Fuchs (FYOOKS’) has reportedly…

Kingsport Based Eastman Chemical Company Has Announced That A Five Percent Reduction In Base Pay Taken Earlier This Year To Reduce Costs Will Be Restored In December. Last December And…

A Former Guard At The Northeast Correctional Center In Johnson County Has Been Found Murdered In Middle Tennessee. The Body Of Marla Abel Was Located Inside Her Robertson County Home.…

A Kingsport Woman Involved In A Traffic Collision On East Center Street Has Been Arrested On Drug Charges. Police Said 30 Year Old Hilary Ann Helton Was Unsteady On Her…

A Hawkins County District Attorney General Plan To Take A Case Of Missing Funds To A Grand Jury. 15-Thousand Dollars Has Escaped From The Chancery Court Clerk And Master’s Office…

Attention Bluff City Motorists..Get Ready To Smile For The Camera. Bluff City’s Two New Speed Enforcement Cameras Are Expected To Go Online Beginning On Wednesday. The Cameras Are Located At…

A group of music figures has begun a campaign against mountaintop coal removal. The campaign, Music Saves Mountains, is sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Gibson Foundation.…

The Bristol Tennessee Planning Commission Has Approved A Permit For A Controversial Treatment Center. The Haven Of Rest Plans To Build An 18 Bed Women’s Residency And Treatment Center On…

Nearly Two Thousand Sullivan County Elementary And Middle School Students Will Receive The H1n1 Flu Vaccine Next Week. According To Gary Mayes, Director Of The Sullivan County Regional Health Department,…

Four People Accused Of Robbing A Big Stone Gap Virginia Gas Station Over The Weekend Are Behind Bars. 34 Year Old Terry Larkins, 34 Year Old James Thomas, 36 Year…