Crab Orchard News

A grinding and horrific crash on I-40 on a Saturday football afternoon claimed the life of an Overton County woman and caused a massive traffic headache for first responders and motorists trying to reach Knoxville for the UT and Vanderbilt football game.

Students at Crab Orchard Elementary School were treated to a party by Fun Factory Inflatables and its owner Bill Fenton, their reward for collecting the most used books for the recent first Newspapers in Education Used Book Sale.

Michelle Pettus and her third-grade class at Crab Orchard Elementary had the opportunity to collect items for care packages to send to two local soldiers.

Dyersburg State Community College will host a special program about the Cumberland Home-steads National Historic District, located near Crossville, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

Korean War veterans - if you didn't get to see Marilyn Monroe perform for the troops at the 38th Parallel in Korea in 1954, your chance to see her here in Crossville is at the USO Show at the historic Palace Theatre in downtown Crossville.

To commemorate Veterans Day, Nov. 11, The Crab-Orchard Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution has set up a poster display of veterans who presently live in Cumberland County.

A worker is dwarfed Thursday inside the recycle pump building at the Kingston Fossil Plant, part of the $500-million scrubber project to remove sulfur dioxide from burning coal.

While Route 66 remains the subject of legend another famed highway running through East Tennessee offers its own brand of roadside adventure.

For those who know me, it is no secret that I love the "olden days" and community history.

Sun-washed mountains, aglow in autumn's blazing kiss, bask in scarlet splendor 'neath a dome of azure blue.

Entertaining, upbeat, nostalgic, patriotic, and sometimes hilarious describe the new 2009 USO Show scheduled for Saturday, Nov.

Libraries can be exciting places. Do you like solving mysteries, exploring the unknown, or verifying facts? Come join The Crab-Orchard Chapter DAR for an interesting guided tour of the NSDAR Library.

Cumberland County Sheriff's Investigators and the Emergency Medical Services were dispatched to this residence on Hwy.

October 1903 +Ozone - The number of pupils in the public schools has increased to such an extent that the Presbyterian Home Mission Board deemed it wise to provide an assistant teacher.

Entertainers, Uncle Sam needs you to perform in the 2009 USO Show! Scheduled for Saturday, Nov.

September 1903 +Mack Snodgrass left last night for Brushy Mountain to look after a jail that has been offered him.

He is loud in his praise of the treatment received at the hands of those in charge of the company work there.

Barbara Nugent reads a portion of her book. 'A Business Proposal' Fiction, published by Xlibris, 194 pages,$19.99 British-born novelist Barbara Nugent's life sounds like one of her books.

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has found no significant impact from the city of Crossville plan to harvest water from Lake Tansi.

On July 24, 2009 the president signed a proclamation to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.