Rogersville News

I was driving across a bridge on my way to a meeting in Rogersville last September when I thought I saw something stick its head up out of a drainage hole.

The Kingsport Times-News reports Hawkins County Deputy Shawn Williams was patrolling Route 66 on Saturday when he saw two vehicles stopped in a turn lane.

This past Wednesday Hawkins County Mayor Melville Bailey signed a proclamation, which proclaims the week of May 12 May 18, 2013 as "Police Week" in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

While responding to a verbal dispute on Virgil Avenue, police were alerted that an individual present had an active warrant out of Georgia.

Hawkins County's Foster Care Review Board will be using a conference room in the Justice Center from now on so that it can utilize the metal detectors and sheriff's deputies for security during potentially volatile hearings.

A Hawkins County grandmother is facing drug and child neglect charges after allegedly bringing her 8-year-old granddaughter to make a drug deal Tuesday evening at a Rogersville restaurant parking lot.

A Mount Carmel man accused in a 2011 home invasion was sentenced to 15 years Friday in Hawkins County Criminal Court in exchange for guilty pleas to multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping, assault and one rape.

State officials say a program that aims to revitalize downtown commercial districts in communities across Tennessee generated more than $82 million in private and public investment last year.

Robert J. Booker is a freelance writer and former executive director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center.

Hawkins County deputies seized drugs, cash, guns and several vehicles Thursday from a Rogersville man accused of trafficking large quantities of pills.

Students in two Maury County schools are no longer trying to hide their cell phones in backpacks or desks - they have them out in the open.

Vanessa Collins, kennel attendant at the Hawkins County Humane Society animal shelter, has her hands full recently with two new friends, Diva and Sassy.

The Greeneville Career Center affiliated with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is one of dozens of such centers across the state that will be closing.

Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson credited a reduction in drug overdose deaths in the Beech Creek community of Hawkins County to a massive federal drug trafficking investigation that led to indictments and arrests last July.

James Light, 65, of Rogersville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 150 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge.

A Hawkins County man on parole for his part in the 2010 assault of a 99-year-old Rogersville woman during the burglary of her home is in trouble again, accused of stealing a Jeep the day after he sold it.

The former TRW Automotive employee accused of calling in a bogus bomb threat last year at the Rogersville plant is on Friday's Hawkins County Criminal Court docket for a plea.

A Hawkins County mother was charged with child neglect early Saturday morning after the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office allegedly found a child living in "unsanitary conditions" and sleeping on a couch with seven dogs.

Police were called to Kroger on East Stone Drive, where employees had a shoplifter in custody.