Johnson City News

Johnson City leaders are still working on the railroad, hoping to nail down a deal that would turn an old rail line into biking and hiking trails.

Alice Ann Smith's third-grade class at Lamar School in Washington County, Tenn. brought in supplies, over a one month period, to be donated to the Washington County/ Johnson City Animal Shelter as a community service project.

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. - The body of a Tennessee soldier who was killed in the shooting spree at Fort Hood was flown to his hometown and escorted through some of his favorite places in East Tennessee.

Friday afternoon at 12:45, officers with the Johnson City Police Department arrested Tina M. Durham, 46, for being a habitual motor offender and several traffic violations.

The Johnson City Police Department says all lanes are back open on Interstate 26 at the Gray exit after two cars hit head-on in the eastbound lanes.

A Bluff City woman who mistook a police officer for a car hop at a Sonic drive-in is charged with DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. a ' A former merchant contends that selling merchandise branded with slogans and pictures critical of President Barack Obama got him evicted from an East Tennessee mall.

A northeast Tennessee teenager has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash. Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal says when deputies arrived Sunday evening to investigate a crash report, they found an ambulance crew trying to revive a young girl.

Two men were arrested over the weekend and charged with numerous drug charges after Johnson City Police say they conducted an investigation into an incident which originally occurred at a Johnson City motel.

The army is still in the process of releasing names of the Fort Hood shooting victims.

Four men have been arrested today in conjunction with a reported robbery in Johnson City, according to city police.

Move over Joe Isuzu -- here comes Jesus Isuzu. Jim Stevens says nearly every morning an image of Jesus appears in the condensation on the driver's side window of his Isuzu pickup.

Jim Stevens says he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

Greene County authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and woman as a murder-suicide. According to WJHL in Johnson City, a family member found Johnny Heck, 50, and Elizabeth Powell, 44, dead inside Heck's home on Oasis Road Sunday evening.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. - A plea bargain in which a northeast Tennessee man admitted to drug charges allowed him to escape moonshining penalties.

Tennessee police say a mechanic was drumming up business by tampering with parked cars, then charging to help start them.Police arrested 41-year-old Christopher Walls of Johnson City on Thursday night.Investigators say Walls disabled cars parked at restaurants, waited for the owners to try to start them and then offered his services as a mechanic.

Prosecutors are still reviewing multiple mental evaluations to see if Walter Shell should go trial.

The Tennessee Department of Revenue is holding free bimonthly tax workshops for new businesses.

Three people will appear in Washington County General Sessions Court on Thursday, after Johnson City Police arrested them in connection to multiple auto burglaries that occurred at a local restaurant.

The detour will take you from Asheville North to Johnson City and then southwest to Knoxville.