Del Rio News

Tickets are still available for Thursday's annual Celebrate Our Successes banquet on Thursday, March 11, at Carson-Springs Baptist Conference Center.

" A federal court has sentenced the sex offender and main person of interest in the disappearance of an East Tennessee teen to prison.

A Del Rio man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to sex offender charges.

Cocke County Partnership directors learned Monday that many projects and activities are underway in Cocke County.

Aminah J. Assilmi, a renowned Muslim scholar and director of the International Union of Muslim Women, died in a one-vehicle accident in Cocke County early Friday.

February passed quickly but March may seem forever in ourhometown, looking forward to the start of spring on the 20th, Passover at theend, and an early Easter in April.

Tickets are now available for next week's annual Celebrate Our Successes banquet on Thursday, March 11, at Carson-Springs Baptist Conference Center.

Bobby Wild of Del Rio is announcing his candidacy for Cocke County Superintendent of Roads in the May 4, 2010 Republican Primary.

Dirty cars and trucks sought refuge at the many car washes on Friday, one of the few sunny and warm days in our hometown beset with snow and cold despite the Del Rio groundhog's prediction of an early spring.

A federal appeals court on Friday deemed as hogwash a Cocke County cockfighting pit owner's claim he did not turn a profit and, therefore, should not have suffered a gambling conviction.

A suspect in the shooting of a Del Rio man over a drug deal gone bad was arrested before dawn today, according to Newport Police Chief Maurice Shults.

The stabbing death of a Newport man and serious injuries to his 16-year-old cousin in 2008 led to guilty pleas from a 26-year-old local man on Tuesday.

They've been anxiously waiting! After a long layoff for the holidays, the Cocke County and Newport Recreation Department's basketball leagues head back to the hardwood this Friday and Saturday .

The appeal of a drunk driving conviction filed by a Cocke County man was tossed out on technical grounds this week by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, which cited a missed deadline and incomplete paperwork.

Sub-freezing morning temperature froze the fog hanging about Newport, causing some of us to wrestle with car doors and gate latches.

In front of a standing room only crowd last Saturday at the Cocke County Recreation Department gymnasium, fans were treated to a full day of basketball as Recreation League squads battled it out in their season-opening jamboree.

The Newport City Council approved the 2006 International Building Code and the 2006 Residential Code, on first readings, at their monthly meeting held Wednesday, Nov.

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.

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The harvest moon looked almost out of place low on the horizon, large and orange as it just emerged from the distant mountains above our hometown, yet offers some comfort of clear days, cooler and drier, as we prepare to salute our veterans on Wednesday.