Newport News

The Newport City Council approved the 2006 International Building Code and the 2006 Residential Code, on first readings, at their monthly meeting held Wednesday, Nov.

The Tennessee Department of Revenues Special Investigations Section conducted the investigation that led to the indictment, arrest and guilty plea of Patsy Ann Quinton, age 56.

The Newport-based Unit of the U.S. Army National Guard is seeking donations to ensure their troops get transportation fare to go home to their families at Christmas.

The U.S. Forest Service in Greeneville announced Friday that Weavers Bend Road, Forest Service Road 209C, along the French Broad River in Cocke County will be temporarily closed due to damage.

One by one, Lisa Maxwell lit candles in a Newport parking lot Saturday night and counted the days since her daughter Megan disappeared.

Cocke County Partnership President Don Hurst told members of the group's executive committee on Monday, "We can ask, but we can't force," when asked why traffic continues to be directed up I-81 to I-26, rather than Highway 25/70. Hurst said he and Cocke County Mayor Iliff McMahan have already met with state officials regarding the Oct.

From left are Cocke County Leadership Class of 2008 member Lula Ozmun, SMHH team members Vera Norton, Bessie Brown, and Elena O'Bryon, and Cocke County Leadership Class of 2008 team member Linda Wester.

A Newport man was arrested Friday on drug charges and appeared Monday before Judge Dennis Inman in U.S. District Court.

What a rousing finish to the 2009 Newport Plain Talk Football Contest. And, when final numbers were tabulated, Jewell Ottinger of Newport was the man.

Governor Phil Bredesen and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matthew Kisber recently approved a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant to assist in infrastructure improvements at two target areas in the Point Pleasant Community of Cocke County.

Two Cocke County residents were charged Tuesday by a Greene County sheriff's deputy who stopped their car because it matched the description of a vehicle that was believed to have been involved in an attempted burglary in western Greene County.

Work continues to see that Hwy. 321 is named an American Scenic Byway. On Friday, representatives from five of the seven Tennessee counties bisected by the highway gathered at the Newport/Cocke County Community Center to continue work on this project.

Three months shy of five years ago, a Cosby man was brought to tears when he was given a tough 30-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to five counts aggravated sexual battery.

A Cocke County man made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court Thursday on charges of wire fraud and making false statements to a federal probation officer.

Four men and one woman were arrested Wednesday, Oct. 28, and charged with federal charges related to making and distributing counterfeit money.

It's been six months since Megan Maxwell, 19, of Newport, disappeared. She was last heard from in the early morning hours of April 26.

Newport-Tomorrow, Oct. 26, marks the sixth-month anniversaryof the disappearance of Newport teenager Megan Maxwell, who is feared killed.

The Newport Police Department has been awarded a $5,000 High Visibility Safety Grant from the Tennessee Governor's Highway Safety Office .

Approximately 400 people received H1N1 flu shots during a clinic at the Cocke County Health Department Tuesday evening.

Sony Pictures Releasing has announced the release of Michael Jackson's "This is it". This exciting motion picture is set to be in theaters for two weeks only.