Month: October 2007

WATER IS BEING BROUGHT INTO GREENE COUNTY TO HELP OUT DROUGHT CONDITIONS. OVER 41-THOUSAND GALLONS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO AREA FARMERS OVER THE WEEKEND FOR CATTLE THAT HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM…

A SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA DENTIST ACCUSED OF DEFRAUDING MEDICAID BY PERFORMING UNNESCESSARY DENTAL WORK ON CHILDREN AND THE POOR, HAS HAD HIS TRIAL DATE CONTINUED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN ABINGDON.…

A JOHNSON CITY SCHOOL TEACHER AND COACH ACCUSED OF LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES ON HIS SCHOOL OWNED COMPUTER HAS RESIGNED. CHRIS BRYANT SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION FRIDAY AFTER BEING SENT HOME…

THE TRIAL DATE FOR A FLORIDA MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING A DICKENSON COUNTY MAN HAS BEEN CONTINUED UNTIL LATER THIS YEAR. ANTHONY GIBSON IS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN…

A KINGSPORT MAIL CARRIER WHO PLED GUILTY IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN GREENEVILLE EARLIER THIS YEAR TO PLACING MAIL IN SEVERAL PERSONAL STORAGE UNITS HAS BEEN ORDERED TO SERVE PROBATION.…

A GREENEVILLE MAN CONVICTED OF ROBBING A CITY PHARMACY TWICE ON TWO SEPERATE OCCASSIONS HAS BEEN SENTENCED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN GREENEVILLE. 42 YEAR OLD STEPHEN BLANGIN PLED GUILTY…

Army officials are reporting a Fort Wainwright soldier from Hampton Tennessee has been killed in a motor vehicle collision while traveling through Canada. They say 22-year-old Private Johnny Guy was…

A KINGSPORT CHILD RAPE SUSPECT WHO CLAIMED HE WAS SOMEONE ELSE AFTER BEING ARRESTED IN MEXICO IS NOW ON HIS WAY BACK TO NORTHEAST TENNESSEE. 66 YEAR OLD DONALD LYNCH…

TWO TRI CITIES NURSES ACCUSED OF HAVING DRUG OFFENSES RELATED TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT, HAVE BEEN PLACED ON PROBATION. THE STATE BOARD OF NURSING PLACED THE LICENSE OF REGISTERED NURSE TAMMY…

Johnson City municipal attorney James Epps III died at home on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 71. Epps was the longest serving municipal attorney in the…

A FORMER SECRETARY FOR GATE CITY HIGH SCHOOL ACCUSED OF TAKING MONEY FROM ATHLETIC BOOSTERS HAS ADMITTED TO HER CRIME IN SCOTT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. CAROLYN BURKE PLED GUILTY TO…

VIRGINIA GOVERNOR TIM KAINE HAS DECLARED A STATEWIDE EMERGENCY AND ENACTED A BAN ON OPEN FIRES. THE BAN IS THE RESULT OF DROUGHT LIKE CONDITIONS THAT HAS PUT THE COMMONWEALTH…

KINGSPORT POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A MAN AND TWO WOMEN ACCUSED OF TAKING MONEY FROM ANOTHER MAN AT GUNPOINT. POLICE SAID JERAMY ISBEL HAD ARRANGED TO PURCHASE SOME STEREO EQUIPMENT…

A KINGSPORT MAN ACCUSED OF SEVERLY BEATING HIS WIFE AND HOLDING HER AGAINST HER WILL OVER THE WEEKEND WILL BE ARRAIGNED THIS MORNING IN GENERAL SESSIONS COURT. HAROLD BERNARD TUCKER…

A CHASE OVER THE WEEKEND THAT STARTED IN JOHNSON CITY AND ENDED IN UNICOI COUNTY HAS SENT A CITY MAN TO JAIL. 33 YEAR OLD ARTHUR VANCE IS CHARGED WITH…

THE MANHUNT FOR THREE SUSPECTS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF A TAZEWELL VIRGINIA SHERIFF’S DEPUTY LAST WEEK AS WELL AS TWO ARMED ROBBERIES, HAS ENDED. WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA…

A TAZEWELL COUNTY VIRGINIA SHERIFF’S OFFICER HAS BEEN SHOT THIS MORNING AFTER STOPPING A VEHICLE THAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE CARRYING ROBBERY SUSPECTS. THE INCIDENT STARTED AFTER THE REPORT OF…

SULLIVAN COUNTY AUTHORITIES SAY ONE OF THE PERSONS INVOLVED IN A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT THAT OCCURRED THURSDAY EVENING HAS DIED. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON HUNTING HILL ROAD NEAR BLUFF CITY…

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for September was 4.7 percent, up 0.7 percent from August. State labor officials said the hike is due to an increase in the labor force because of…

A WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA MAN ACCUSED OF CONFRONTING AN EMPLOYEE AT AN ABINGDON ARTS CENTER HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF SOME OF THE CHARGES AND SOME HAVE BEEN BOUND OVER TO…

A KINGSPORT MAN ACCUSED OF MOLESTING YOUNG GIRLS AND WHO WAS RECENTLY ARRESTED IN BROWNSVILLE TEXAS, REMAINS HELD BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. THE MAN CLAIMS HE’S NOT 66 YEAR OLD DONALD…

IT TOOK A BRISTOL VIRGINIA JURY LESS THAN 30 MINUTES TO FIND A MAN GUILTY IN THE BEATING DEATH OF ANOTHER MAN LAST YEAR IN AN AREA KNOWN AS “THE…