Sweetwater News

Soldiers from the Sweetwater-based National Guard unit will leave around 9 a.m. Sunday for Camp Shelby, Miss., for final training for deployment in Iraq early next year.

An anti-Obama activist finds a grand jury to consider his extreme charges. - By Stephanie Mencimer - Photo by flickr user luna715 used with a Creative Commons license.

If the Sweetwater Economic Development Board hopes to sell the Sweetwater City Commission on the benefits of biodiesel, board members need to first show commissioners they are working to bring businesses to town and improve the economic climate for existing businesses.

The Tennessee Beef Industry Council, based in Murfreesboro, has announced its newly elected officers for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

Tuesday's inspection also allowed the contractors and TDOT personnel to better assess the condition of the slope and identify the areas where the 40-foot-long rock bolts will be drilled and cemented through the slide plane in order to help further stabilize the slope.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 18. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 17.

Two rock slides in East Tennessee have closed US Highway 64 in both directions and traffic is being rerouted.

By David Hall Daily Times Correspondent Originally published: November 10. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 09.

From the hills of West Virginia, traditional mountain music flowed through the veins of Wilma Lee Cooper.

For a quarter of a century, Lifestar helicopters have been soaring through the skies of East Tennessee.

One man is in jail and another is in the hospital after hot cooking grease was used as a weapon in a domestic assault, according to the McMinn County Sheriff's Department.

When school systems receive their annual Report Cards, the public shouldn't be alarmed if the grades are lower than what they've been in the past.

After a frantic search the McMinn County Rescue Squad has found a home for its Halloween fund raiser, continuing its 23-year tradition of scaring thrill seekers.

One person was killed and two others injured in a Tuesday afternoon crash in Monroe County, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is focusing a reforestation effort in the cities.

An alleged swindler who swept through several U.S. towns passing himself off as a Canadian multi-millionaire turns out to have been fabricating his nationality, too.

From Staff Reports Originally published: October 10. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: October 09.

After serving more than three years in prison, Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard arrived at his Grandparent's home in Monroe County around 9 p.m. Monday night.

Supporters and opponents of the Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear reactor expressed their views Tuesday at a hearing in Sweetwater.

SWEETWATER, Tenn. a ' Opponents are raising environmental concerns about the Tennessee Valley Authority's plans to finish a second reactor at its Watts Bar site in Tennessee.