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On Monday, all six of Anderson County’s judges as well as its top two elected attorneys issued a joint statement announcing that all in-person court hearings and appearances in Anderson County will be suspended beginning at the end of the day on Wednesday, December 9th (tomorrow), and continuing through January …

A Roane County Ambulance was sent to the old Rocky Top Market location at Bluff Road in Kingston around 2:30 today. A Roane County deputy requested medical assistance for a person that was arrested and in his cruiser. The suspect apparently struck his head on the back window of the …

Rescue Squad members were called to go to a boat access area off of Webster Road this morning after a Body of an unidentified man needed to be transported to the UT Forensics Center for an autopsy. Roane Sheriff Jack Stockton tells us vis text message that the mans body …

Joseph Eugene Russell As we reported earlier this week, the suspect in a Campbell County homicide was arrested Sunday in Dayton, Ohio. Last week the TBI added 48-year-old Billy Jay Randolph to its Most Wanted list on a charge of criminal homicide in connection to the stabbing death of Donnie …

Morgan County schools has temporarily halted all sports and extracurricular activities, effective today, Wednesday, December 9, 2020.  In an email distributed by the county schools director, David Treece, the email stated, “This is to let you know that all extracurricular activities will be canceled effective tomorrow (12/9/20) through the start …

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (Dec. 8, 2020) – The Oak Ridge Police Department is urging the public to take advantage of a new option provided by Tennessee Driver Services that helps first responders during emergencies. Tennessee driver’s license or identification card holders can now submit emergency contact information for first responders …

UPDATE (12:24, 12/8/20) A person wanted on Murder charges in Roane County was arrested in Knoxville on Monday around 8pm. Matthew Aaron Scott of Lenoir City was wanted for the second-degree murder of Haley Thomas. Thomas was found dead on March 26, 2020 at 103 Sportsman Club Road in Harriman. …

[Oak Ridge, TN] – The Oak Ridge Police Department (ORPD) is partnering with the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) to increase impaired-driving enforcement from Dec. 18, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2021, surrounding the holiday season. The THSO’s statewide Booze It and Lose It campaign is part of the National Highway …

Roane County Sheriff, Jack Stockton, in a phone conversation with us yesterday, confirmed that an investigation is underway to determine how a man died whose body was discovered in a mobile home on Young Road in the Pine Orchard area of Morgan county last Wednesday morning. He stated that Rockwood …

Pictured from left to right are Grant Minchew, TNECD Director of Legislation; Jamie Stitt, TNECD Assistant Commissioner; Senator Ken Yager; Gary Human, TNECD Regional Director; TNECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe; and Sammie Arnold, TNECD Assistant Commissioner On Monday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted Commissioner Rolfe, members of the TNECD team and Senator Ken …