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Five-Star Shooting Guard Visiting Tennessee Basketball This Fall
Five-star shooting guard Darius Adams plans to visit Tennessee basketball from September 13-15, 247sports Dushawn London reported over the weekend. The trip to Knoxville is one of six visits Adams has planned this fall. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard also has plans to visit North Carolina State, Michigan State, Alabama, Connecticut and Notre Dame.
Ashley Frye: A survivor finds her family at LCSO
Today’s Our Town Hero is an Our Town Survivor: Ashley Brea Frye. Frye has survived foster homes, a mother now in St. Louis, who has been in and out of prison and is not part of her life … and won’t be. She has two brothers – one older, one younger – she has no contact with today. One has been in and out of jail; the other is in a Chattanooga rehabilitation center. She’s never met her biological father.
Alcoa City Schools start back the school year
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Alcoa City Schools started their school year on Tuesday with a staggered start. Only half of the students into class on Tuesday and the other half will begin on Wednesday. The school system began the staggered starts during COVID-19 but continued the system in order to...
Blount County man arrested after several armed robberies, police say
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A man was arrested and charged in connection with three armed robberies that happened within days of each other, according to authorities in Blount County. Jeremy R. Smith, of Louisville, was identified as a suspect by investigators with the Maryville Police Department following an armed robbery...
National Park Service asks for public's input on environmental assessment of Foothills Parkway construction
Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — The National Park Service is accepting comments through Aug. 21 on the Foothills Parkway Section 8D Environmental Assessment in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The proposed project would extend the parkway approximately nine miles from Wears Valley to the Spur near Gatlinburg...
JCFD to host child safety seat checkpoint
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Johnson City Fire Department (JCFD) will host a child safety seat check on Thursday. Certified car seat technicians with the department will install and inspect child safety seats at the event. “Statistics show a majority of child safety seats are installed incorrectly,” JCFD Chief David Bell said in a […]
NU makes emergency repairs to restore power
There were several tree-related power outages over the past weekend that required Newport Utilities to make emergency repairs. NU reports the outages were caused by falling debris landing on numerous power lines during the storms that came through the area. Its crews responded throughout the evening on Saturday, July 20 to restore power. One of the larger outages that occurred late Saturday night was the result of a tree falling...
KPD: Driver dies after Friday crash on John B. Dennis Highway
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The driver injured in a crash on S John B. Dennis Highway Friday has died, the Kingsport Police Department (KPD) announced Monday. According to the KPD, Noah Pence, 25 of Kingsport, passed away at the Johnson City Medical Center on Sunday night. Pence was injured in a crash that occurred around […]
PHOTO GALLERY: Stingrays outgun Flying Fish
ROGERSVILLE — The Church Hill Stingrays strolled into Rogersville on Thursday, July 18, and swam away with a clean sweep of the Rogersville Flying Fish in the second Hawkins County battle of the summer. The Stingrays picked up wins in both the girls (311-216) and boys (263-257) competition to take a 574-473 victory over the Flying Fish in the combined team scores. “I don’t always keep score during these meets,...
Beloved country, pop singer dead at 80
Beloved country music and pop singer Sandy Posey has died. She reportedly died at her home on Saturday in Tennessee after a battle with dementia. WANT MORE COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS? CLICK HERE. Her husband, Wade Cummins, told TMZ that she had “a slow decline over the past seven years.”
Tennessee Football’s Most Important Players for 2024: No. 7
Now closing in on the beginning of preseason camp on July 31,. is speeding toward the start of the 2024 college football season. After a 9-4 campaign in their third season under head football coach Josh Heupel, the Vols enter a new era of the sport with an expanded SEC and the 12-team College Football Playoff heading in the right direction with 20 wins over the past two seasons, but while some position groups will be relying on a handful of veteran players, other units are turning the page to newcomers or the program’s crop of up-and-coming talent. With SEC Media Days in the books and the offseason nearing its conclusion, GoVols247 this month will be ranking Tennessee football’s most important players for the upcoming season.
First 10 official state books recognized at reception
A reception was held recently in Loudon County to recognize the designation of Tennessee’s first 10 official state books. Speaking at the Public Library at Tellico Village on July 16, State Rep. Lowell Russell, R-Vonore, said he was proud to join his colleagues in the General Assembly to pass a bill naming the books earlier this year. “While there's been official state songs and state poems and state paintings, Tennessee...
Man involved in shooting of THP trooper taken into custody, efforts to apprehend the remaining suspects continue
Chattanooga, TN – According to the police officials, the search for the man who was reportedly involved in the in the shooting of Trooper Cothron, Braze Rucker, was arrested in Kentucky. Kentucky State Police troopers, utilizing handcuffs from Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Cothron, successfully took Rucker into custody. The...
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