Spring City News

The U.S. Geological Survey confirms a small earthquake rocked East Tennessee on Sunday morning.

Two persons were hit by a small gun blast leaving one with serious injuries and the other minor in what authorities are viewing as an accidental discharge inside a convenience store.

The Senate voted Monday to allow school buses to remain in use for up to 17 years, two more than now allowed.

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called yesterday for doubling the number of nuclear reactors nationwide, a potentially $700 billion proposal that calls for building 100 more over 20 years.

Chattanooga police arrested eight women Friday on charges of prostitution, according to the Hamilton County Sheriffa s Office booking report.

It's one of the few areas left in the Tennessee Valley where it's still illegal to buy a glass of liquor.

Pattye Elliott says she just stumbled across one of the worst cases of animal cruelty she has ever seen.

Should Chattanooga Take Up PETA's Pothole Offer? : Yes, If you take money from KFC, why not take more money from PETA.

By News Sentinel staff Originally published 04:07 p.m., May 1, 2009 Updated 04:09 p.m., May 1, 2009 KNOXVILLE - Persons interested in requesting a hearing on TVA's updated application for an operating license for the unfinished Watts Bar nuclear plant's Unit 2 can now do so, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said today.

A traffic crash near Chattanooga has killed two people on a motorcycle and critically injured a pickup truck driver.

A man and his wife were killed this evening when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a pickup truck on Highway 60, a Hamilton County Sheriffa s Office spokeswoman said.

The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and one of its commissioners toured Unit 2 of the TVA Watts Bar nuclear plant Monday and told reporters in Knoxville afterward that they were impressed by the work taking place.

Several lots and homes have been sold in the past month, Mr. McClure said. Three buyers have moved into homes in the past month.

SPRING CITY, Tenn. a ' No charges have been filed in an early morning shooting that left a Spring City man in a Chattanooga hospital with a gunshot wound, according to sheriffa TMs department officials.

Authorities in Rhea County are investigating an overnight shooting. Dispatchers tell us it happened around 12:30 this morning in Spring City.

On March 5th, 2009, I created and registered the name “truth_is” and posted four comments on Topix. Apparently the message I was trying to convey is STILL not reaching those that are so consumed with hate for Roy and Kim Denton that there is just no reasoning with these people who comment on Topix. These people continuously ASSUME that the Dentons are so pathetic that the Dentons are somehow addicted with need for some kind of ongoing dialogue with these hateful people. These people do not go to Topix to discuss current events in Dayton, but they go there to routinely anonymously try to antagonize the Dentons in to some sort of online confrontation ALL OF THE TIME, even after the Dentons STOPPED posting there. When the Dentons posted they were Wolfeagle and Gracie. Comments were made in October that were so bad and personal that Topix themselves removed such comments. It was not long after that the Dentons decided to really not get involved with the type of people that hovered over Topix waiting to pounce on any comment from either one of them as their true identities have been known, including the pen names they liked to use when writing blogs or other Internet opinions/articles/stories et cetera. Now, the Dentons were notified that their real names were bringing brought up ONCE AGAIN, long after they decided to no longer post because they did post with their real names. Other people are posting anonymously and yet anonymous posters are accusing the Dentons of posting what? Oh, anonymous comments the same as everyone else on Topix, yet for some reason the Dentons are not allowed to be who they are, nor are they allowed to be anonymous on an anonymous posters website. Are you realizing yet how crazy you sound?

Thousands of military veterans across the South are waiting to find out if they were exposed to infectious diseases by government clinics that performed colonoscopies and other procedures with equipment that wasn't properly sterilized.

Tennessee school systems could keep their buses on the road longer under a bill scheduled for a possible vote next week - up to 20 years instead of the current 15.

The judges have made their decision and Etowah Utilities has the best tasting water in the region.

SPRING CITY, Tenn. a ' Rhea County Board of Education members soon will begin interviewing nine finalists seeking to replace Superintendent Dallas Smith, who is retiring at the end of June.