A fast-food restaurant here is home to three separate groups, each called The Liars Club, each meeting at a different time and some since the Hardee’s opened more than 15 years ago.
BENTON, Tenn. — 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb on Thursday admitted fault after a judge tossed him out of a courtroom during a trial in Polk County.
A judge tossed 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb out of the courtroom this morning after the DA confronted a state attorney at the Davis Waldroup murder trial.
The woman who died in what prosecutors say was a rampage by Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. was shot eight times and slashed repeatedly on the head with a machete, according to testimony Wednesday at his murder trial.
With gas prices down and federal stimulus money on the way, it looks like it could be a bright summer season for tourist destinations in the Ocoee area.
All 911 calls in McMinn County go to a central center, but then fire and police calls for the towns of Athens and Etowah are routed again to their individual dispatch systems.
The granddaughter of one of Meigs County’s most infamous women has given the Meigs County Historical Museum a quilt that her grandmother stitched in prison.
A U.S. Forest Service official said she hopes the public will agree to closing the 39-mile Upper Tellico off-road trail system off Tellico River Road in Monroe County.
Police in two states are on the watch for a Monroe County man who eluded pursuit through two counties, then crashed his car and escaped once he got over the Georgia line.
Police in two states are on the watch for a Monroe County man who eluded pursuit through three counties, then crashed his car and escaped once he got over the Georgia line.
The latest project in the cleanup of the Copper Basin is a waterline to divert clean water in a creek so that it doesn’t pick up mining pollutants before it flows into the Ocoee River.
State Sen. Dewayne Bunch, R-Cleveland, told McMinn County commissioners last week he has filed a bill in the General Assembly to exempt the county from a law setting standards for the position of road superintendent.
Nearly every year Meigs County Sheriff Walter Hickman asks for additional funds for his department. But early every year his requested amount gets drastically cut by the County Commission.
Tired of property damage and complaints from owners, Athens City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to ban skateboarding in a 12-square-block area downtown.
Prosecutors seeking murder indictments against two men in the shooting death of Athens businessman Jeff Beene will present evidence to a McMinn County grand jury today.
ATHENS, Tenn. — A recent security drill at the McMinn County Courthouse pointed out some problems with the warning system, including panic buttons that did not work.
Meigs County jail escapee Daniel Lankey has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Athens businessman Jeff Beene, McMinn County Sheriff Steve Frisbie said in a news conference this morning.
A Meigs County Jail escapee who was recaptured just this week has been charged with fatally shooting Athens businessman Jeffery Beene during a Jan. 29 burglary.
More than five years after Mitchell Delashmitt, 35, was charged with raping and killing his 14-month-old daughter, a trial date of Sept. 1 was set during a hearing Monday.
Bill Dyer was a battalion chief at the Oak Ridge Fire Department when he considered applying for the Athens chief’s position that came open when Bob Miller retired.
A new display at the Meigs County Museum includes a mural of downtown Decatur in the 1930s and a trunk with medical equipment used by a doctor who practiced in a building depicted in the mural.
An Athens business owner who called police early today to say he was holding a burglar at gunpoint was shot after circumstances apparently turned around.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Mayfield Dairy Farms announced today that it does not use peanut butter or peanut butter paste from Peanut Butter Corp. of America in its products.