Newport News

This year customers of Jefferson-Cocke County Utility District will be able to pay their bills via the Internet, if they choose.

Randy York, 35, of 1733 Pat Road, in Newport, was arrested Feb. 8 after he allegedly made sexual advances on separate days to two 12-year-old girls, the Cocke County Sheriff's Department reported.

Jennifer S. Presley, 30, of 573 River St., in Newport, was arrested Monday, Feb.

NEWPORT, Tenn. - One westbound lane of Interstate 40 in Cocke County was reopened overnight as crews finished clearing the debris from last week's rockslide near the North Carolina state line.

Most of the action at the state Capitol last week was in committees, but the full Senate took a very important step: It added Cocke County to the 2009 state law that allows 'micro-distilleries,' the modern term for moonshine stills, in Tennessee.

The work to clean up two rockslides on the Tennessee and North Carolina border is continuing with TDOT saying more than 70% of the rock has been removed.

Henry, who had been invited to visit Cocke County by state Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby and state Sen.

NEWPORT, Tenn. -- Tennessee transportation officials say work to clear a rock and mud slide along Interstate 40 near the North Carolina border is set to begin.

Residents in Newport are already seeing an increase in traffic through the Cocke County town following Tuesday's morning rock slide.

NEWPORT, Tenn. - A pedestrian struck and killed along Interstate 40 last week actually was hit twice - the first time he jumped up and ran away, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

USDA Farm Service Agency today announced that Gene Davidson, State Executive Director for Tennessee FSA and members of his management team have scheduled a public meeting in Cocke County on Jan.

Work crews clean up a rock slide on I-65 in the northbound lanes near Warrior. Ala., on Dec.

The slide was reported early Tuesday morning in Cocke County at mile marker 450, near the North Carolina state line, the Associated Press reported.

"I requested several times that he not enter into the jail. He attempted to enter the jail.

NEWPORT, Tenn. - A Cocke County man was struck by a vehicle and killed while walking along Interstate 40 on Friday night, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

A nine-month-old black lab is recovering after it was shot in the leg in Newport.

Billy Chad Reese, 39, of Newport, was sentenced to serve 130 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.

The Newport Police Department arrested a White Pine couple on Tuesday after Detective Donna Harrison made an undercover drug purchase from the couple.

A Newport man was sentenced in federal court to serve 130 months in prison for credit card fraud and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.

Two people were arrested and charged with stealing electronic equipment, a safe, jewelry and other items worth over $14,000 from a North Street residence on Jan.