Oneida News

The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners has suspended the license of Oneida physician Dr.

HUNTSVILLE Two persons have been charged in connection with a forgery case that allegedly involved forged checks being passed at businesses in the Fairview area, as well as local banks.

HUNTSVILLE a ' A Scott County man has been accused of using a cellular phone to send nude photos of himself to an 11-year-old child.

Kobo said in the Oneida Forum:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=8894250 Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. The measure is named for Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student murdered 11 years ago. For or against? Why or why not? Discuss.

A proposal to hire a correctional healthcare firm at an annual cost of $99,737.60 to serve the inmates at the Scott County Jail was presented to County Commission's Intergovernmental Committee here Monday evening.

A flu outbreak shuts down after-school activities in the Oneida City School District.

In an indictment unsealed Monday, Andrew J. Ellis, 19, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide.

Ellis was the driver of a vehicle involved in a Sept. 5 accident on Coopertown Road in West Oneida. According to an accident report filed by Trooper Mark Chitwood of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when a Mitsubishi Mirage driven by Ellis left the roadway and crashed through two board fences before striking a farm house some 579 ft. from the point it left the highway.

Ernest Green, 19, of Helenwood, was the passenger in the vehicle. Both Green and Ellis were airlifted to UT Medical Center in Knoxville, where Green was pronounced dead. Ellis was treated for serious injuries and later released.

In the indictment, which was returned by a Scott County grand jury on Oct. 6, prosecutors alleged that Ellis was under the influence of an illegal substance.

Ellis was arraigned in Scott County Criminal Court Monday morning.

Chancellor Charles Manning announced today that the Tennessee Board of Regents system is experiencing a substantial increase in its fall enrollment.

A Scott County grand jury has charged a man and a woman with TennCare fraud in cases involving prescription drug sales.

Dr. Matthew Mancini, left, accompanies Dr. Hobart a oeGeorgea Akin in Akina s hand-built 1914 Model T Ford across the Royal Gorge Bridge in Pueblo, Colo.

An Oneida man faces two counts of aggravated child abuse after allegedly returning two children left in his care beaten and burned.

Travel back in time, at the Big Fork National River and Recreation Area, in Oneida, Tennessee, to a time when coal was king as fuel.

Felony animal cruelty charges have been filed against a man after he allegedly killed a kitten while three young children watched.

A local church has lost its pastor. Rev. Glenn Whitehead, 61 of Revelo, passed away on Friday May 22, 2009, at St.

ONEIDA, Tenn. - A Knoxville man has died in the Cumberland River in East Tennessee after canoeists missed their planned take-out point and were swept through a Class 4 rapid.

Several homes were evacuated during the overnight hours Sunday into Monday, and county schools were closed Monday, due to flood waters after rain-swollen creeks finally left their banks on the heels of several days of rain.

Officials say they won't know the total damages left behind by Friday night's apparent tornado in Scott County until next week.

Numerous reports of wind and water damage were reported in several East Tennessee counties late Sunday night and Monday morning.

Flooding late Sunday forced authorities to evacuate several Scott County communities.

WINFIELD a ' An Oneida woman sustained serious injuries in a single-vehicle accident on U.S. Hwy.