Unicoi News

French Broad Electric Membership Corporation is continuing to restore service to its customers and currently has around 2,500 customers without power.

In a continuing effort to acquire and protect more of the property known as Rocky Fork, the U.S. Forest Service is considering a possible exchange of Cherokee National Forest land in Unicoi County.

Four people are charged separately with TennCare fraud in Davidson, Unicoi and Dyer counties, with all the cases involving charges of using TennCare to purchase prescription pain medication and, in one case, selling the pills to an undercover agent, according to a news release.

Tennessee highway crews spent most of Friday dumping an icing-preventative brine solution over Northeast Tennessee roads and interstates as they readied for what was expected to be the region's first major snowstorm.

Members of Chestoa Baptist Church watched helplessly today as flames and smoke destroyed their house of worship.

The National Weather Service has issued a "High Wind Warning" for the Eastern-most counties in Tennessee.

A crash just before four this morning sent one to the hospital. It happened on Highway 81, in Washington County, Tenn., near the intersection of Deacon Creek Road, about a mile from the Unicoi County line.

Over millennia of time, Native Americans, soldiers, militiamen, colonists, drovers, prospectors, bushwhackers, guerrillas all passed over it.

The power is back on in Unicoi County after a lengthy outage Thursday night. Dispatchers told 11 Connects the power went out in most of the county around 10:15 last night, including the areas of Erwin and Unicoi.

ERWIN, Tenn.- Heather Rheams is accustomed to handling animals in her job as a K-9 officer for the Unicoi County Sheriff's Department.

A bear cub was struck by a car on Interstate 26 in Unicoi County sometime over the weekend and is now being nursed back to health with the help of an animal-loving police officer.

Unicoi Co., Tenn. - The passenger of a tractor trailer that crashed on I-26 remained in serious condition at the Johnson City Medical Center Saturday.

As an unseasonably cold northwest wind flow banks against the high terrain of the Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina Appalachian Mountain Region, snow will develop late Saturday 10 / 17 into early Sunday 10 / 18.

The Unicoi County Sheriff Department's Narcotics Division made a large marijuana bust Sunday, outside a pair of trailers in the Limestone Cove area of Unicoi Tenn.

PINPOINT 8 WEATHER CENTER -- Accumulating snow is expected for the higher elevations of East Tennessee, Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning.

Preparations were in high gear this morning in the Town of Unicoi for the first Old-Timey Days Heritage Festival this weekend.

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Wildlife officials are predicting another record bear hunt in Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reports that 187 bears have been taken already and the 2009 season is less than two weeks old.

Dennis Trentham, the Superintendant for the Cherokee Hotshot Crew with the U.S. Forest Service, stationed in Unicoi, Tenn.

Washington Co., Tenn. - Highway 81 is back open this morning, after a wreck that killed one person and sent two others to the hospital.