Oliver Springs News

Tuesday's Hall of Fame Games : Lookout Valley at St. Andrews McMinn Central at Oliver Springs Sale Creek at East Hamilton Notre Dame at East Ridge Hamilton Heights at Hixson Livingston Academy at Red Bank Heritage at Signal Mountain GPS/McCallie at Tyner CSAS at Van Buren Co.

Firefighters this morning remained on the scene of a strip mall fire that damaged a thrift store, the police chief said.

Fire destroyed two businesses in Oliver Springs early Monday morning. The blaze broke out in a thrift store at 39 Edmonds Drive and spread to a surrounding business in a strip mall.

Justin Kickliter was the man in the final week, Week 10, of The Newport Plain Talk Football Contest.

OLIVER SPRINGS, Tenn. -- The 2-year-old girl rescued from the creek behind her rural elementary school today is recovering after treatment, authorities said.

Enjoy this Saturday, which the Vols' schedule has rendered a special sort of holiday.

Anderson County Sheriff Paul White said a wet, mushy grass landing strip, coupled with a strong crosswind, were likely factors in the airplane crash that killed a Powell man.

A single-engine plane slammed into a tree after landing at an airport in East Tennessee, killing one person and injuring three others.

A small plane crashed in the Oliver Springs community, killing one person onboard.

The Riverdale High School Band and band boosters will present the 32nd Annual Division I State Marching Band Championship on November 7. Twenty-seven bands from across the state will compete for the a oeGovernors Cup,a presented annually to the best Division I marching band in the State of Tennessee.

Foreign exchange students gather at the home of Lendelle and Sue Clark for an orientation meeting earlier this school year.

OLIVER SPRINGS - A man who was swept off his all-terrain vehicle by a flooding creek on Windrock Mountain has been rescued after an overnight search for him.

Just a 145-pound tailback, Pigeon Forge High School sophomore doubled his weight in rushing yards Friday night - and then some.

The lion's share of a $43 million TVA payment to offset the negative effects of the ash-spill calamity in Roane County is about to be gobbled up.

Roane County officials want to build better schools with some of the money paid by TVA in the wake of the December 2008 ash spill at its Kingston Fossil Plant.

A man originally charged with rape pleaded guilty today in Anderson County Criminal Court to a reduced charge of aggravated assault.

EAST TENNESSEE CONSTRUCTION September 17 - 23, 2009 ANDERSON COUNTY, SR 61 Bridge over Poplar Creek in Oliver Springs: Motorists should be alert for temporary lane closures through this bridge widening project.

The badly decomposed body of a man discovered Wednesday next to a Old Harriman Highway driveway has been identified as the resident, Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said today.

An Oliver Springs couple was arrested Monday night following an indictment for abuse of a four-year-old child.

An Oliver Springs couple was arrested Monday night following an indictment for abuse of a four-year-old child.