Ten Mile News

Meigs County Schools will receive $12,300 to enhance the safety of schools, Represenative Eric Watson announced.

Funding will be utilized to purchased or update and install monitoring equipment for school campuses and buses, and implement violence prevention programs.

ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. a ' A U.S. Marine killed over the weekend in Afghanistan had close ties to East Tennessee.

The Meigs County Sheriff's Office made a drug arrest Sunday morning.

Investigators executed a search warrant at Keith H. Warren's residence at 220 Dogwood Drive in Ten Mile Sunday morning and found 27 grams of cocaine and weapons.

They also found devices and equipment believed to contain child pornography and obtained an additional search warrant.

It took over a dozen hours of investigative work over the course of three days but a Meigs County man was finally taken into custody after allegedly walking out of a Crossville pawn shop with an assault rifle tucked beneath his coat.

A Ten Mile woman was killed in a single-vehicle traffic accident early Wednesday morning in Meigs County.

Roane County Mayor Mike Farmer and Sheriff Jack Stockton have already said they will seek second terms. The following offices up are for election next Year:

* County Executive (or Mayor);

* Sheriff

* All 15 county commission seats;

* County attorney

* Circuit court clerk

An East Tennessee man was killed early Tuesday afternoon in a Monroe County industrial accident.

James Bales, 51 of Ten Mile died of injuries he received after being struck by glass at the SCHOTT Gemtron plant in Sweetwater according to the Monroe County Advocate. No foul play is suspected.

Commit incest/statutory rape with a teenage stepdaughter, father a child, then get out of jail after only nine months.

For details, contact the offices of District Attorney General Lawrence Russell Johnson and/or Ninth Judicial District Criminal Court Judge Elmer Eugene Eblen.

The annual Jimmy Liner Memorial Christmas Parade is scheduled for this evening, Monday, Dec.

An East Tennessee woman has been accused of embezzling more than $50,000 from a rural Baptist church where she is treasurer.

Photo by Anthony Dake Lori Maddorn of South East Bank Trust goes over donut sale plans with United Way's Stephanie Linkous and Amy Sewell.

A Meigs County man is under bond this week following his arrest after he allegedly car-jacked a vehicle at gunpoint from a rural convenience store parking lot, according to reports.

A man who pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder in connection with what a prosecutor called a "drug deal gone bad'' received an effective 15-year sentence Friday.

Stanley Brown, 37, of Nashville admitted to:

1. Shooting 27-year-old Tommy Morrell once in the head with a .38-caliber handgun, killing him, on Oct. 7, 2007;

2. Shooting Charles Ward, 39, in the arm and shoulder;

3. Stealing Morrell's 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

The shootings occurred inside a Moses Lane home in Roane County's Midtown community.

Leon Houston was taken back into custody Thursday after a judge ruled he violated a condition of his bond.

One Roane County brother has been sent to jail and the other has been sent home until they can both be retried in the shooting deaths of a sheriff's deputy and his passenger.

Special Judge David Hayes on Friday ordered Rocky Joe Houston taken into custody for violating the terms of his release and set his new bond at $500,000.

The judge ruled Leon Houston could remain on unmonitored house arrest for now.

Law enforcement officers fanned out across Meigs County Thursday morning with warrants in hand, rounding up individuals indicted by the Grand Jury.

At least 16 individuals are charged as a result of ongoing undercover drug operations and four individuals are charged with felony sex offenses, including aggravated statutory rape, violation of sex offender registry and one case of downloading multiple images of child porn. There are 28 total targets.

Roane County commissioners voted Monday night to pass a 9-cent property-ownership tax rate increase. Officials say the tax allows Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton to hire nine full time corrections officers and one part time corrections officer.

Roane County’s proposed budget would raise the property ownership tax rate by 10 cents. Both opponents and proponents of the tax increase got to speak during a recent county commission hearing.

County Executive Mike Farmer said the new jail is the reason taxes on property ownership may increase.

Several environmental groups are coming together to fight a new nuclear reactor at Watts Bar.

The Sierra Club.. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and the Tennessee Environmental Council are all joining forces.

On Wednesday, they asked the NRC for permission to challenge a new license for the plant.

TVA wants to complete the unit 2 reactor by 2012.