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Cocke County Mayor Vaughn Moore announced Friday that the Courthouse Annex, located at 360 E. Main St., in Newport, will close at noon on Thursday, May 23, and will re-open for business at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 28.

Middle of May finally gave way to a warming trend after 40s seemed to have threatened some tender plants about our hometown, but cool nights encouraged the blackberries to thrive into a brigade of white blossoms alongside locust trees.

A former Cocke County official remained in jail on Tuesday, just one day after he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence.

A Grainger County man was hospitalized after he allegedly led Newport police on a high-speed pursuit riding a stolen motorcycle when he crashed into a telephone pole, authorities said.

PHOTO SUBMITTED This is the 21st house that Cocke County Habitat for Humanity broke ground last week for its 21st house, which will be located at 312 Jefferson Ave.

J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Defense attorney William Leibrock, left, talks to his client Dan Ford on Monday in Cocke County Circuit Court.$RETURN$$RETURN$ Former Cocke County Election Commissioner Dan Ford, right, stands with his defense attorney, William Leibrock, as he enters a guilty plea before Senior Judge Ben Cantrell on Monday in Cocke ... (more)

His move to Newport came in 1984 when he joined then-National Bank of Newport as Executive Vice-President. He was named Director in 1986 and President and CEO in 1987.

A long-simmering feud turned physical this week after Newport, Tenn., police say the sister of homicide victim Megan Maxwell assaulted the father of the man who admitted murdering Maxwell.

NEWPORT - High school graduation season can be a wonderful time, but it can also be pricey.

The Cocke County Sheriff's Office is investigating after two people were shot when a man entered the home where they were using drugs and demanded pain pills, officials said.

Officers who said they spotted a man shooting up drugs in front of a child in a motel room at the Parkway Inn Motel, on Friday, May 3, arrested the man and his wife, the Cocke County Sheriff's Office reported.

A driver of a White Honda Accord and four passengers were arrested Friday, May 3, after undercover officers with the Cocke County Sheriff's Department saw them leave a known drug house in the vehicle, the Cocke County Sheriff's Department reported.

In the wake of the escape of three young women who were apparently held captive for years in Ohio, Newport, TN Police Chief Maurice Shults spoke Tuesday about a missing person's case that didn't end happily.

NPT FILE PHOTO BY BETTY MCMILLAN During May, Wright's Swimming Pool and Spa is advertising on the front of The Newport Plain Talk news racks, over 50 locations throughout the area.

After investigating a claim by fired Newport City Administrator Scott Collins that Newport Alderwoman Kathy Holt was in violation of the law when the City of Newport purchased gasoline from two businesses owned by her, District Attorney General James B. Dunn issued a finding on Tuesday stating he found no violation of the law.

A fatal accident has occurred involving a school bus in Franklin at around 7 a.m. The Tennessee Highway Patrol confirms that the driver of a jeep was killed after a bus rear-ended the vehicle at Columbia Pike at Kittrell Road.

The coveted recipe of iconic East Tennessee moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton will once again be cooked in Cocke County.

However, laws recently changed. Popcorn Sutton lived in Cocke County, Tennessee, but also claimed North Carolina as home.

The City of Newport, with two months left in its fiscal year, is facing a net deficit of roughly $140,000-$150,000 when compared to the earlier projection for the year, interim City Administrator James Finchum announced at a special called meeting of the City Council held Thursday, April 25.

Just a few days remain in the first full month of spring and its warmth embracing our hometown lulls us into believing that cold mornings are gone for the season.