Bybee News

Serious assault charges against three people who are accused in connection with an incident last August were among the 82 cases heard by the Cocke County Grand Jury this week.

Josh Dunn has been named the new executivedirector of Sunset Gap Community Center.

One year and 26 days after reaching a settlement of a complaint before the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, Cocke County General Sessions Judge John A. Bell is the focus of a second complaint, this time alleging ethical and legal violations in connection with his handling of a civil case.

As more defendants in a major marijuana conspiracy case are entering into negotiated plea-bargains with state prosecutors, a second drug conspiracy has been alleged involving some of the same people.

Hey, Everyone! Church Fish Fry Griffins Chapel Church of the Nazarene will hold a fish fry and singing at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 10.

Ella Mae Lane joined a very elite group of Cocke County residents on Friday, August 14, when she became a centenarian.

Ella Mae Lane joined a very elite group of Cocke County residents on Friday, August 14, when she became a centenarian.

A monthlong roundup of wanted fugitives nationwide has wrapped up with 242 arrests around East Tennessee, authorities said today.

After first pleading guilty last September, then withdrawing her plea in May, a Bybee woman again entered a guilty plea on Wednesday to a charge of aggravated robbery.

Three employees of Laughlin Memorial Hospital are happy to be alive this morning after a freak accident in which a tree fell on their rental vehicle Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities are saying they have a Bridgeton man in custody who they claim sexually assaulted a woman in a peach orchard here late last month.

Brittany Smith, 14, of Bybee, shot this turkey while on a hunt with her father, Norman Smith.

The former executive director of Community House Cooperative will serve three years in the Community Corrections Program, pay a $1,000 fine, and make restitution to the community service organization after pleading guilty in an embezzlement case this week in Cocke County Circuit Court.