Blountville News

The Tennessee Regulatory Authority announced Thursday that Dr. Kenneth C. Hill, of Blountville, has joined the agency as one of its four directors, the first from Northeast Tennessee in memory.

It resembled a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie: Computers and ham radios powered by a mobile generator cluttering a picnic stand of tables ringed by trees and overlooking South Holston Lake.

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, will keynote the Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club meeting at 7 a.m. Thursday.

A Haywood Community College administrator is the top pick to lead a Tennessee school.

Republicans may have only "semi-control" of the General Assembly, but they say they nonetheless made major strides this year in areas such as gun rights, social issues such as abortion and charter school expansion.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. -- Following the approval in bankruptcy court for the sale of Appalachian Oil Co.'s remaining stores, the selling agent, NRC Realty Advisors LLC, have established Thursday, July 9, as the bid deadline for the 52 sites in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said Monday his 2010 gubernatorial fundraising was "obviously hurt" from the Legislature's failure to modify an existing ban on legislators raising campaign cash during the session.

" A Blountville homeowner held an intruder at gunpoint when he spotted him going into his travel camper Tuesday morning.The Reedy Creek Lane resident told Sullivan County Sheriff's deputies he first thought a relative had entered his camper, which was parked in his driveway.

As a notorious puppy import broker sits in federal prison, one of her last victims has been making a slow but steady recovery thanks to a Southwest Virginia animal rescue group and a local veterinarian.

A proposal to allow sitting lawmakers to raise money for their gubernatorial campaigns during the legislative session has been killed in the House.

One day, some time ago, a flying saucer landed on Bruce Cooke's lawn. A little man got out, knocked on the door and asked Cooke to exchange his alien money for the real thing.

NASHVILLE - Senate Republicans crashed a news conference pre-kindergarten advocates held Tuesday asking lawmakers to reject a budget amendment that will change how the state education program gets its funding.

Senate Republicans have rejected a resolution urging the erection on Tennessee Capitol grounds of statues to honor the state's two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Al Gore and Cordell Hull.

Five years after a controversial recall election forced one City Council incumbent from office, the current council voted Tuesday to keep it from ever happening again.

A traffic stop in Bristol blossomed into a lengthy investigation that netted the arrests of 10 people on almost 60 drug charges.

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey slowly turned the pages of Llama, Llama Red Pajama as he read the book to a group of 4- and 5-year-olds following a Friday news conference at Kingsport's First Presbyterian Church.

The big monster in the legislative halls that few people talked about for most of this year is beginning to speak its name this week.

Summer study sounds like a diligent examination over vacation months, but it's actually political Siberia.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Showdown at the Deery Inn. "Sometime today I will be killed by Wyatt Earp," said Jeff Pierce of Elizabethton.

The marketing of the Appalachian Oil Co. for sale moved a step closer this week as a bankruptcy court judge approved sale procedures.