Rogersville News

The TBI executed a search warrant today at the office of General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge Jay Taylor in Rogersville, Tenn.

A judge in East Tennessee has refused to allow a former prosecutor pretrial diversion in a sex-for-leniency case.

Rogers was arrested for attempting to sneak a baggie containing loose tobacco, cigarettes, rolling papers, a lighter, along with an assortment of pills into the Hawkins County Jail.

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - Beleaguered Hawkins County Sessions Court Judge James "Jay" Taylor, already the subject of multiple civil lawsuits and a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation bribery probe, took another hit Tuesday with five charges being leveled against him by the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary.

A Hawkins County attorney who also works as a juvenile court and general sessions judge has been formally charged with violating the state's judicial code of conduct for taking money from clients for his personal benefit and for claiming payment for services that he didn't perform.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has raised $1 billion dollars by selling its soon-to-be-completed John Sevier natural gas plant in Rogersville, Tenn., in what is known as a "sale and leaseback" transaction in which TVA will lease the facility from its new owners.

TVA's new John Sevier Combined Cycle power plant in Hawkins County near Rogersville is under construction in this January 2011 photo.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it has completed the financing needed to lease the John Sevier plant in Rogersville, Tenn.