News Staff Confederate monuments standing at the Washington County Courthouse in Abingdon must be removed by January.The Board of Supervisors voted 7-0 to remove and relocate the monuments at a public meeting on Tuesday.The monuments will be moved in order to expand the county courthouse.The vote comes after a public hearing on the removal of the monuments. … Read more
Arson and trespassing are the charges facing a man arrested on multiple charges following a structure fire on the 100-block of Legion Street Sunday night, a release from the Johnson City Police Department revealed.The release states that the fire was quickly extinguished and began at the lower level of the building.A joint investigation between police … Read more
The TBI has announced this morning that the two children at the center of an endangered child alert have been found safe.No further information has been released at this time.Orginally, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an endangered child alert for a pair of children in Sullivan County missing from Blountville.According to a tweet … Read more
The Johnson City Christmas Parade will return to downtown next month after the event was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The event is going to be hosted by the Blue Plum Organization.Registration for the businesses and organizations wishing to enter floats is underway. The last day to register is November 22.Prizes will be … Read more
An Oneida man has been accused of child abuse after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Scott County Sheriff’s Office investigated the hospitalization of a baby boy Sunday. According to a release from the TBI, Ethan R. Jeffers, 21, was arrested Monday night on one count of aggravated child abuse and neglect after investigators … Read more
With the highest smoking rate in the country, a youth tobacco prevention program is launching in Wise County in the next week.The program initiated from a partnership with the University of Virginia Cancer Center, the Southwest Virginia Advisory Board, UVA-Wise and the Virginia Cooperative Extension.Organizers say tobacco usage is one of four top priority areas … Read more
Johnson County authorities have ended a years’ long search after a man was reported missing in January 2013.A release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office states that in May 2020, human remains were found in a wooded area off of Gentry Creek Road.Those remains were positively identified by DNA to have belonged to Harry C. … Read more
A Wise County veteran is receiving a special honor decades after he was killed in action.Officials have dedicated the Kent Junction Bridge located in West Norton on Business 23 Park Avenue NW/Kent Junction Road in honor of Sgt. Alfred J. Amburgey.Amburgey was killed in action on August 25, 1966.He was a native of the Thacker’s … Read more
The trial is set for a man accused of first-degree murder following the 2018 death of a 4-year-old girl in Kingsport is set to go to trial in August 2022.Cody R. Webb faces two counts of aggravated child abuse, one count of child abuse/neglect and one count of first-degree murder.His trial date has been set … Read more
So you;re thinking of a getaway. Unicoi County economic officials announced that the locality is celebrating a $20-million investment toward a luxury cabin resort in the mountains.A release from the county’s Economic and Community Development Board said Coffee Ridge Resort will mark the first of its kind in Northeast Tennessee and will help boost tourism … Read more