Del Rio News

The temperature inside the Del Rio Elemetary School library was cold Friday evening where Cocke County Board of Education members convened for their October meeting, but a discussion regarding a proposed author ...

Not counting the low-scale wars that raged in Cocke County in the 1920s as moonshiners battled it out with revenuers, the federal government has now launched three massive efforts to "clean up" a region that's ...

Time turned back Friday night when two Civil War generals held an audience of over 300 enthralled at the Cocke County Courthouse as Newport kicked off its annual Harvest Street Festival weekend.

A cockfighting pit in East Tennessee has been razed to make way for homes. A police raid of the pit in 2005 began public knowledge of Operation Rose Thorn - a federal and state investigation into corruption in ...

Clay Owen Retired FBI agent Thomas Farrow, who spearheaded the Rose Thorn investigation, talks about the experience, while standing at the gate of the narrow driveway leading into the Del Rio cockfighting pit.

Photo submitted Cocke County's libraries were well represented last Thursday at the annual trustees workshop in Dandridge.

A 39-year-old Del Rio man died Tuesday in a single-vehicle crash on Big Creek Road in the Hartford community, according to the Cocke County Sheriff's Office.

Citizens who find themselves in civil or criminal court will now have to pay a little extra as the Cocke County Legislative Body approved a $40 increase in the county's litigation tax at its monthly meeting on ...

Hurricane Ike caught Newport by surprise on Friday and, though more than a thousand miles away, it was blowing gasoline prices higher in our hometown.

The Cocke County Board of Education elected Randy Shults chair and Dr. Ken Johnson chair pro-tem for 2008-09 Thursday evening.

Del Rio Days, sponsored by Brushy Mountain Bear Hunters Club, is set for Sept. 20-21 at the Jones Nature Center, located across Highway 107 from Del Rio School.

Fourth Judicial District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn has filed an amended complaint in seeking to padlock the Midnight Rodeo.

Glenn Willis, left, Del Rio Volunteer Fire Department Chief, accepted a check for $1,000 from State Representative Eddie Yokley, right, on Tuesday afternoon.

Firefighters are continuing to battle a forest fire in Cocke County that's burned more than 1,600 acres.

Late August has turned to extremely dry, as the sun over our hometown bakes to brown once green fields and dries forests for fire fodder with no rain in sight.

A forest fire near Del Rio in Cocke County that burned more than 1,800 acres over the past few days appears to have been knocked back by heavy rainfall, according to the National Forest Service.

A Cocke County forest fire continued to burn Saturday as it spread to more acreage and continued to darken the skies.

A fire 3 miles southeast of Del Rio has grown to 1600 acres and is 35 percent contained.

The Old 15th Fire is three miles southeast of Del Rio, Tennessee along Old Fifteenth Road.

A large forest fire that began Monday continued to burn hundreds of acres of forest in neighboring Cocke County on Friday .