Kingsport News

A Mountain City, Tenn., man is listed as one of the 13 victims from Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

A well-known bookstore is being downsized and replaced by a newer chain. The Waldenbooks in Knoxville Center Mall and Kingsport are two of 200 Borders Group's mall stores closing in January , eliminating about 1,500 positions nationwide.

Students and other users of the Kingsport Center for Higher Education will be able to take advantage of distance learning opportunities, thanks in part to a $50,000 grant from AT&T. A new "smart classroom" funded by the grant was shown off Thursday during a news conference and ribbon cutting.

The Tennessee Economic Development Council announces its board officers for 2009-20010. Paul Latture and Holly Sears Weber from the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce were elected President and Middle Tennessee Representative by the membership at the TEDCa s annual fall conference held in Kingsport, TN.

Stalks slapped us. But we kept on marching. This rite of passage appeared endless and darn near impossible.

A Greene County man was charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses by Hawkins County authorities in connection with a shooting incident early Saturday near Rogersville.

A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon.

Attorney General Bob Cooper says landlords can ban their tenants from bringing firearms into their property even if they have handgun carry permits.

BLOUNTVILLE a ' An internal report by Sullivan County schools officials explains where whiskey taken from a school system warehouse came from.

A northeast Tennessee man serving five years in prison for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old girl in Kentucky now faces eight more years after being sentenced on a child porn charge.

An elderly man backed his Buick through the front of a Chinese restaurant, injuring two diners.

A Surgoinsville man is behind bars today, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.

Murfreesboro City School Board is slated to set a salary range for the next schools director at its meeting tonight.

Sullivan County hopes to cut one of its biggest costs with a new retirement incentive plan the County Commission approved Monday.

A 19-year-old Kingsport man is accused of spray painting threatening statements about President Barack Obama on an overpass.

Six months after spraying racist, obscene, and threatening graffiti about President Obama, Kingsport police say the vandal responsible is behind bars.

Connected Tennessee recently was recognized for making a difference in the lives of technologically underserved Tennesseans.

WKU students came together Wednesday night to celebrate the life of an international student killed in a car crash last week.

A former firefighter has been fatally injured in a fire at his northeast Tennessee home, despite being rescued by two fire department volunteers.

The Johnson City Police Department reports today that they've wrapped up two separate theft cases.