Seymour News

Knoxville lawyer Pamela Reeves faces more intensive investigation by federal agencies and a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee since being nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to be the first woman to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern Tennessee District.

Three people accused of multiple burglaries in Tennessee were arrested Thursday in Florida after high speed chase with state troopers.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is kicking off National Safe Boating Week with Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day on Friday.

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Caroline Julie Rogers, tenth grade student at Bearden High School took first place in a Law Day essay contest sponsored by the Tennessee Bar Association and Cedar Bluff Elementary School fourth grader Jackson Steven James Ahern took second place in the art contest.

As testimony continued in Day 2 of the retrial for Christian-Newsom defendant George Thomas, both victim's mothers along with the former girlfriend of ringleader, LeMaricus Davidson, took the stand.

Update: Captain Jeff McCarter with Sevier County Sheriff's office confirms that the fire at the Seymour Flea Market was electrical and it has been ruled an accident.

Blount County residents near Maryville felt the earth move just before 1:00 a.m. Friday when a magnitude 2.5 earthquake hit.

Three hours after Seymour Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a flea market blaze that closed Chapman Highway for almost nine hours Friday, they were called early this morning to a saw mill fire on Sevierville Road, officials said.

Smoke rises from a fire at a flea market at 13305 block of Chapman Highway. Both lanes of traffic were blocked due to the fact that ammunition was stored in the building, according to authorities on the scene.

One person was taken to the hospital today after a fire at the former Seymour Motel in Sevier County, officials said.