White Pine News

With Independence Day falling on a weekend this year, a variety of activities are offered to keep families busy this weekend.

Residents of an neighborhood just outside White Pine are afraid they're being singled out by the Ku Klux Klan after flyers were left by their mailboxes.

Tim Smiley of White Pine won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Volunteer Division tournament on Cherokee Lake with a five-bass catch weighing 16 pounds, 5 ounces.

Another successful week for the Cocke County Recreation Department's Diamond Divas 11-12 softball squad.

Betty Jean Campbell, age 68, of Morristown, passed away on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at Lifecare Center of Morristown.

A Jefferson City man was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Monday to 19.5 years in federal prison for robbing pharmacies in Bulls Gap, Newport and White Pine last year.

Brittany Smith, 14, of Bybee, shot this turkey while on a hunt with her father, Norman Smith.

Jennifer Brooke Dockery, daughter of Janie and Eddie Dockery, of Louisville, is engaged to marry Timothy Edward McKee, son of Marie and Glenn "Bud" McKee, of Rockford, at 3 p.m. May 9 at Sampson's Hollow.

Jim Thompson of Bluff City, Tenn., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Volunteer Division tournament on the South Holston Reservoir Saturday with a four-bass catch weighing 17 pounds, 8 ounces.

The Cocke County Tea Party, which was held Wednesday afternoon at Newport City Park, was attended by hundreds of people, not just from Cocke County, but from surrounding counties as well.

You might call them cookies for a cause. On Saturday morning, some East Tennessee Girl Scouts used some of their cookie money profits to hold a food pantry for area families in need.

This is one scrappy bunch! The Cocke County Middle School softball squad ventured to White Pine Monday night for a double header against their toughest opponent on the schedule, Jefferson County Red.

With Easter fast approaching, many community Easter egg hunts are scheduled. Egg hunts will begin Saturday, April 4. Centerview Ruritan Club will host an Easter egg hunt at Centerview ballfield, near the intersection of Highway 160 and Airport Road, at 1 p.m., April 4. The Tennessee Meth Free Project will sponsor the First Annual Resurrection ...

Let's face it - for those of you in the music industry, the glory days are over.

The Holley Shop has been a familiar name in Newport retail business for more than 58 years and will be closing later this month.

A parent in Tennessee was given nearly a year's suspended sentence Friday after pleading guilty to head-butting a referee during a school wrestling match.

White Pine City Council met in regular session Tuesday evening. All council members, the town recorder, and town attorney were in attendance.

During a Jefferson County middle schools wrestling match Tuesday night, a parent head butted a referee, according to the Jefferson City police chief.

The replacement of water lines that must occur before West First North Street is repaved means that the Morristown thoroughfare could be marred by construction for up to four months, officials say.

Two men, who attempted to rob the Dollar General Store at 1127 State Street in White Pine, have been arrested.