Bluff City News

When it comes to overall crime in Memphis, the city's top cop says the annual crime rankings of cities paint an unfair picture of the Bluff City.

Sullivan County officials decided Monday to change their health insurance provider next year so they can continue to provide the benefit to employees while keeping the burden on taxpayers to a minimum.

For 30 years Theatre Memphis' patrons have been delighted and dazzled by Andre Bruce Ward's stunning, award winning costume designs.

Investigators say a utility worker in northeastern Tennessee was killed when he was electrocuted and thrown from power pole.

Crews are investigating what appears to be the death of a person along Hickory Tree Road at the intersection of Morrell Creek Road near Bluff City.

The Scene hallways are strewn with first-time novels, self-help manuals and vanity-press dregs with titles like A Brief History of Dog Grooming in the South and Nine Steps to a Less Insufferable You , but when this gem hit our mailroom, we were fighting over it like Haystacks Calhoun, Treacherous Phillips , Gorgeous George and the Masked Assassins ...

A Bluff City woman who mistook a police officer for a car hop at a Sonic drive-in is charged with DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police arrested an intoxicated Bluff City woman on Saturday after she attempted to pay an officer for her meal at Sonic Drive-In in Elizabethton.

Elder Cal H.P. Merrell of Atlanta yells out while dancing with a tambourine during Sunday's service at FedExForum, part of the 102nd COGIC Holy Convocation.

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.

Louis Arthur King, founder and chairman of Kintronic Labs , has passed away. The news is according to his son Tom, who is president of the company his father founded in Bluff City, Tenn.

Sullivan County Sheriff's Office charged a Bluff City man with several burglaries over the last couple of months.

They've filled Memphis church pews for over 100 years but now those who often travel to the Bluff City for the Church of God in Christ Holy Convocation are feeling the spirit move them.

Erica Davis is moved by the Holy Spirit while Missionary Karen Hodges talks into her ear during the Sunday service at Pentecostal Temple Church of God In Christ.

The lush gardens that sprout a bounty of vegetables in some of Memphis' poorest neighborhoods are the crown jewel of the social justice programs run by the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center.

A Memphis blogger was at the center of a heated exchange between two Memphis City Council members this week.

HICKORY TREE, Tenn. - Private First Class Lawrence Carrier was building a bridge when the Chinese Army attacked his unit and killed him July 8, 1953.

Bluff City, Tenn., citizens witnessed an embarrassment on Monday - the town's veteran city attorney was fired and replaced with a newcomer while anyone watching was faced with the obvious truth that three of the members had agreed to the firing beforehand.

Chad Kimball and Montego Glover take their curtain call at the Monday night opening of "Memphis: The Musical" in Broadway's Shubert Theatre.

Students in Sullivan County are getting more personalized attention thanks to federal stimulus dollars.