Blount County News

University of Tennessee women's basketball head coach emeritus Pat Summitt will be one of the recipients Tuesday of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony.

"Certainly everyone within our agency and the community are devastated," said BCRS Chief Keith Sartin.

The date: Nov. 14, 1944. The place: Metz, France, where, in the cold rain and snow mix, a young American soldier from McMinn County almost lost his life while fighting for the liberation of France.

Area lakes and pools have certainly been busy so far this weekend, with more people trying to keep cool in these stifling temperatures.

The state Department of Education has advised Blount County's three school systems of their performance expectations under the new No Child Left Behind Act waiver accountability system.

A house fire on Peppermint Road kept firefighters from multiple departments busy for several hours Friday afternoon as the blaze slowly took over the entire structure.

Angela Metcalf, collections manager for Anderson County Circuit Court, checks out records of unpaid court costs.

Dustin Swaney pleaded guilty May 10 to a child abuse charge and was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.

The Knoxville area received more good economic news recently when a report from the Brookings Institution took note of the metropolitan area's growth in manufacturing jobs.

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel The 2012 "Own the Night" Teens Summer Reading Program at The Blount County Public Library will kick off with registration 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. June 1. Weekly prizes of $10 gift certificates will be awarded by drawings.

School's out for the summer, and forever, for one Maryville school. But Fort Craig is getting ready for influx of kids from a whole new club.

Former Sevier County Clerk Joe Keener entered a guilty plea Wednesday morning in Sevier County Circuit Court to charges of theft and official misconduct.

A Friendsville man accused of fatally stabbing a neighbor then setting him on fire pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and abuse of a corpse today and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Former church youth leader Laura Lee Click Salazar was back in jail Monday after her bond was raised to $50,000 on multiple charges of sexual misconduct with minors.

On Monday they held a meeting at Broadway United Methodist Church in downtown Maryville...to address victim's issues in East Tennessee.

Families of Tuckalechee Cove had connections not only to Cades Cove, but to the north end of the Park as well.

A new tourism authority for Blount County has been established, and the county's vision for the new board is serving as a model for the rest of Tennessee.

Prescription drug abuse is nothing new these days, but as as law enforcement cracks down on the sale and use of pain pills, some are turning to heroin.

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel Teens Creative Writing workshops will be held 4-5 p.m. May 19, and the third Saturday of each month, in the in the Board Room at the Blount County Public Library, 508 North Cusick Street in Maryville.

Motions were heard during an all-day hearing Wednesday in Blount County Circuit Court for a Maryville man charged with killing his estranged wife on Sept.