Bulls Gap News

The annual Mohawk Christmas parade ushered in the season in good style Sunday afternoon with a procession that stretched as usual from within sight of Interstate 81 to the Mohawk Post Office.

The annual Bulls Gap Christmas parade on Sunday had a marching band, race cars, all the sirens anyone could want, more candy than anyone should try to eat, 14 floats -- and Santa Claus.

A $5 million wrongful death lawsuit was filed today over a Nov. 9 incident where two teenage workers were killed while working in the median of Interstate 75.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has chosen a route that passes north and east of Bulls Gap "as the preferred alternative" for improvements to U.S. Highway 11E from Mosheim to Morristown.

Crews working through the night Saturday on scheduled repairs to a bridge on Interstate 81 finished shortly after noon on Sunday.

The two workers, employed by a Kingston Springs, Tenn., contractor, were tightening a barrier cable recently installed in the area, about a mile from the Clinton exit on northbound Interstate 75.

Two construction workers from our region were struck and killed while working along Interstate 75 north of Knoxville Monday.

Investigators are awaiting the results of blood tests before settling on any criminal charges in connection with the deaths Monday of two maintenance workers on Interstate 40 in Anderson County.

There are no charges yet against a Scott County man who Tennessee troopers say caused an accident on I-75 Monday that killed two highway workers.

The two workers killed on I-75 South near the Norris/Clinton exit have now been identified.

Some pumpkin farmers in East Tennessee said their crops were hit or miss this year.

When Grant Williams showed up at a fast-food restaurant in Bulls Gap to deliver cocaine to an FBI informant in August 2008, he couldn't help but brag about the friends he believed were protecting him, according to court records.

The Greene County Sheriff's Department is investigating a Sept. 3 burglary at a Democrat Road residence in which several thousand dollars worth of firearms and other objects were stolen.

The Town of Bulls Gap, in conjunction with the Archie Campbell Labor Day Committee, will be hosting the 21st Annual Archie Campbell Labor Day Celebration this weekend in historic downtown Bulls Gap.

A Bulls Gap man and his girlfriend were both arrested yesterday for their connection to a murder almost two-weeks ago in Hawkins County.

Mickey L. Zimmerman, 34, 107 Glenwood Ave., Bulls Gap, Tenn., was charged late Tuesday with DWI, first offense, with a juvenile and improper lane use.

Sun Photo by Jim Feltman Some spectators were a little closer to the action than they expected when a three-car reverse pileup sent one car over the barricade and close to the stands during Thursday's demolition derby at the Greene County Fair.

Being a drummer, Brandon Hensley definitely wants you to enjoy music. But he wants you to do so safely.

A lawsuit seeking $3 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages has been filed against the Town of Bulls Gap.

A lawsuit seeking $3 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages has been filed against the Town of Bulls Gap.