Month: January 2008

CHARGES OF CAPITAL MURDER AND FIRST DEGREE MURDER AGAINST A MAN FOR THE DOUBLE HOMICIDE OF HIS ESTRANGED WIFE AND HER FRIEND HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED TO A GRAND JURY. CARL…

AN APPARENT ALTERCATION BETWEEN A JUVENILE AND HIS MOTHER IN BRISTOL VIRGINIA HAS LEAD TO THE SON’S ARREST. POLICE RESPONDED TO THE INCIDENT ON WALLACE PIKE. ACCORDING TO POLICE SGT.…

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY RESIDENTS TO VOTE EARLY. THE POLLS WILL BE OPEN FROM 9AM TO 4PM FOR VOTERS TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS. THE PRECINCTS THAT…

A JOHNSON CITY MAN ACCUSED OF ABDUCTING HIS THEN FIVE-MONTH OLD DAUGHTER WHICH RESULTED IN AN AMBER ALERT BEING ISSUED HAS HAD HIS COURT DATE RESET IN WASHINGTON COUNTY CRIMINAL…

A MAN WHO WAS SHOT BY JOHNSON CITY POLICE AFTER ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO RUN OVER A POLICE OFFICER IS FACING CHARGES. CHRISTOPHER GREEN IS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON AN…

A FORMER COEBURN VIRGINIA MIDDLE SCHOOL SECRETARY HAS ADMITTED TO TAKING FUNDS FROM THE SCHOOL. PATRICIA BRYANT PLEAD GUILTY IN WISE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT TO EMBEZZLEMENT NEARLY 50-THOUSAND DOLLARS. A…

UNICOI COUNTY’S E-M-S CONTRACTOR EMERGYSTATE LOST ITS MEDICAL LIABILITY INSURANCE LAST WEEK, FORCING IT TO SHUTDOWN. THIS LEFT THE COUNTY WITHOUT ANY AMBULANCE SERVICE. AT A MEETING YESTERDAY, COUNTY LEADERS…

50 JOBS WILL BE COMING TO SCOTT COUNTY VIRGINIA SOON FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW COMPANY. OFFICIALS OF ROGERS FOAM CORPORATION WILL BE LOCATING IN THE DUFFIELD REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL…

Christopher Green Photo courtesy of WJHL TV A JOHNSON CITY MAN SHOT BY POLICE AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO RUN OVER A CITY POLICE OFFICER WILL HAVE A PRELIMINARY HEARING…

Harold William Laster III A KINGSPORT MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEATING HIS MOTHER AT HER CITY RESIDENCE. 38 YEAR OLD HAROLD WILLIAM LASTER THE THIRD WAS CHARGED WITH…

The American Association of Retired People provides federal income tax preparation assistance for those aged 60 and older and low and middle income people.All tax preparation will be completed for…

WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM HAS ANNOUNCED PLANS TO BUILD A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HEALTH CARE FACILITY IN PINEY FLATS. THE FOUR MILLION DOLLAR BUILDING WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED ON FOUR ACRES OF…

IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR A SULLIVAN COUNTY JURY TO FIND A MAN GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED RAPE OF A NOW DECEASED WOMAN. 31 YEAR OLD JIMMY JOE STAPLETON WAS CONVICTED…

JOHNSON CITY AUTHORITIES SAY A MAN INVOLVED IN A MOTORCYCLE CRASH EARLIER THIS WEEK HAS DIED. KENNETH REED WAS INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT AT THE KNOB CREEK ROAD AND PECTOLAS…

Consol Energy is blaming lost production from its Buchanan Mine Number One in Virginia for a 94 percent decline in its fourth-quarter profit. The Pittsburgh-based coal company said it earned…

A BRISTOL TENNESSEE MAN ACCUSED OF ATTACKING A WOMAN TRYING TO FLEE FROM HIM IN A PARKED CAR IS BEHIND BARS. 46 YEAR OLD ROBERT MCDOWELL IS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED…

THE KINGSPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT IS GOING HIGH TECH. AUTHORITIES PLAN TO USE THE VIDEO WEBSITE YOUTUBE DOT COM AS A WAY TO GET INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT INDIVIDUALS…

Some Carter County inmates who dropped in on their jail administrator’s office are now charged with attempting escape. Chad Louis Royal, Jerry Lee Tolley and Cody Brent Ingram have been…

Jimmy Joe Stapleton Photo courtesy of Bristol Herald Courier A SULLIVAN COUNTY JURY HAS FOUND A MAN FOUND GUILTY ON ALL BUT ONE CHARGE FOR RAPING A WOMAN JUST THREE…

Paul Anthony Thomas A BRISTOL AREA MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER HE WAS STOPPED FOR ERRATIC DRIVING. AFTER SULLIVAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICERS STOPPED 31 YEAR OLD PAUL ANTHONY THOMAS’S VEHICLE,…

AN ATV ACCIDENT IN WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA HAS CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A MEADOWVIEW MAN AND LEFT ONE PERSON INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT NEAR CALEB’S COVE CAMPGROUND ON SOUTH HOLSTON…

A motorcycle crash that occurred Monday at the Knob Creek Road and Pactolas Road intersection has resulted in a fatality. Kenneth Reed died today at the Johnson City Medical Center…