Blountville News

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - It is 9 a.m. Wednesday, and in the next hour, one man must pick out a dozen dogs that won't live until lunchtime.

Authorities have upped the charges on a woman arrested Thursday after police stumbled upon a meth lab in her kitchen.

A Davidson County chancellor turned town a request to force state officials to move expeditiously toward implementing paper ballot voting systems across Tennessee by the 2010 general election as required by a 2008 state statute.

Nine of Sullivan County's 24 public elementary and middle schools scored a "C" average on an annual report card released Tuesday by the Tennessee Department of Education.

Several bottles of whiskey were indeed heisted from a Sullivan County school system warehouse during a recent break-in, but school officials deny the eight pornographic DVDs found along with them were ever in the building.

An internal report by Sullivan County schools officials explains where whiskey taken from a school system warehouse came from.

A former student of the Sullivan County school system is accused of breaking into an off-the-beaten path Department of Education warehouse and stealing, among other things, several bottles of liquor and $160 worth of pornographic DVDs.

Two minutes after midnight, the wee first minutes into Thursday. The phone rang.

Voter fraud in upper east Tennessee?! Wow. You expect the stories from Memphis or Shelby county.

BY MAC McLEAN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Wanda Hooker's kitchen window made a loud sucking sound as two contractors checked it and the rest of her 37-year-old mobile home for leaks.

Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said here Friday that two-year colleges are a vital tool for the region's economic development.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - "I see Daddy!" squealed Isabella Davis, her face pressed up against a window at Tri-Cities Regional Airport.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Dismayed by the Sullivan County Board of Education's decision against renewing its director of schools' contract, a county commissioner is looking to breathe new life into an old idea.

McDonald's restaurants in the Tri-Cities area are partnering with local schools to help subsidize education budgets.

What started as an attempt to buy a friend a dog, ended with the buyers being duped, the sickly dog dying and, eventually, a kennel owner sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.

A woman wanted on charges of kidnapping her 4-year-old daughter in Massachusetts more than a year ago has been captured in Tennessee.

A Massachusetts toddler, kidnapped more than a year ago, was found here Monday morning, living in a trailer with her mother, authorities said.

A fugitive kidnapper has been caught, and a kidnapped four-year-old child has been recovered in Blountville, Tenn.

Jonesborough, Tenn. - While the Tennessee Legislative session doesn't start back up until January, we've received questions from you about important state legislative issues.

The nonpartisan citizen-advocacy group Common Cause Tennessee filed a lawsuit today asking the courts to compel the state to comply with a state law requiring paper ballots to be in use no later the November 2010 statewide elections.