Jellico News

This weekend's winter blast is long gone, but its impact remains. Hundreds of people are without power in and around Campbell County.

Once again, Knoxville has dodged it. But you can find plenty of snow in some parts of Tennessee.

Temperatures were just a bit too warm in Knoxville and south down Interstate 75 for snow, but to the north and in the plateau and Smokies areas, it's a different story.

Human remains found four years ago in southern Illinois were positively identified this week as an elderly Tellico Plains, Tenn., woman who went missing in 2005, though authorities gave no new word on her possible killer.

By Becky Manley /Staff Writer Gospel music lovers can hear their favorite music and help pay for a Jellico Hospital project.

SOME TIME AGO, I wrote a column about funny things that happen in church, reflecting on my half-century as a pastor.

The suspicious purchase of the cold medicine pseudoephedrine at a pharmacy in a Blount County business triggered a traffic stop and the arrest of four Kentucky residents on methamphetamine-related charges, Blount County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Marian O'Briant said today.

Four people from Kentucky face multiple charges after being arrested in Alcoa on meth charges.

From Staff Reports Originally published: October 21. 2009 10:34AM Last modified: October 21.

A Whitley County High School freshman is making progress in her battle with the H1N1 virus, but her mother cautions that her daughter is not out of the woods by any means.

The struggling economy appears to have claimed another casualty in the local business world as Buckner's Bar and Grill announced via front door sign this week it will most likely close for good.

The loser was expected to appeal. But the Shelby County Commission will have a debate at the very least and possibly a close vote before any appeal of this week's Tennessee Court of Appeals ruling on a second Juvenile Court judge's position is approved.

Local authorities in several parts of East Tennessee have been dealing with flooded roads, traffic accidents and downed trees resulting from heavy rains that have fallen since Friday.

The money keeps drying up, but East Tennessee school officials say they've still found ways to improve school security in the wake of two school shootings in the past five years.

Greg Brown, left, with the Tennessee Highway Patrol along with Lanny Janeway, center, with the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Joel Nixon, right, with Counter Drug Enforcement load some of the marijuana seized onto a truck near Jellico, Tenn.

A crew of up to 30 state, local and federal officers cut 151,250 marijuana plants up to 6 feet tall from the mountainous terrain around Jellico in Campbell County, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Law enforcement officers today are removing marijuana plants from a remote area in Campbell County in what is expected to be the largest seizure ever in the state.

When a pit bull wouldn't stop attacking a girl at her grandparents house in Jellico last weekend, a neighbor shot and killed the dog.

A four-year-old Atlanta girl died and two others were injured after an SUV flipped over a concrete barrier on Interstate 75 in Jellico Thursday evening.

Charges are pending against an Atlanta mother after a single vehicle crash in Campbell County.