Cocke County News

A Memorial Day ceremony to honor servicemen and servicewomen who gave the "ultimate sacrifice" will be held Monday, May 27 at 10:30 a.m. in front of the downtown Courthouse in Newport, it has been announced.

By a narrow 7-5 vote Monday evening, members of the Cocke County Legislative Body voted to give a surplus law enforcement vehicle to the City of Parrottsville.

By MONA NAIR 6 News Reporter CAMP CREEK It's been two years since a deadly tornado hit the Camp Creek community in Greene County.

A trial date has been set for the Campbell County teen who pled guilty to a 2005 shooting at Campbell County High School.

Mmmm, biscuits: The International Biscuit Festival will be held today, beginning at 9 a.m. The bake-off competition will be held noon-4:10 p.m. at the Biscuit Big Top Tent, located on Market Street.

A former Cocke County official remained in jail on Tuesday, just one day after he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence.

The Newport Plain Talk's annual special edition 'Smoky Mountain Homeplace' was honored by the East Tennessee Historical Society last week with a History in Media Award.

Dan Ford, a prominent businessman, former chair of the Cocke County Republican Party, and a candidate for representative in Nashville, pled guilty in Cocke County Circuit Court on Monday, May 13, to charges of DUI and vehicular homicide by recklessness.

J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Defense attorney William Leibrock, left, talks to his client Dan Ford on Monday in Cocke County Circuit Court.$RETURN$$RETURN$ Former Cocke County Election Commissioner Dan Ford, right, stands with his defense attorney, William Leibrock, as he enters a guilty plea before Senior Judge Ben Cantrell on Monday in Cocke ... (more)

Cocke County Election Commissioner Dan Ford today pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by recklessness and driving under the influence of alcohol when he struck and killed a bicyclist in 2011.

Inmates from the Cocke County Jail worked this week to put up siding and other work on the Culture and Preservation Society of Del Rio building on South Highway 107, near the French Broad River.

The Tennessee State Library and Archives is hosting a workshop to help individuals gather and record information for family history.

Terry Stock, father of convicted murderer Jeffery Stock, was sentenced to a year of supervised probation Tuesday in connection with the 2009 killing of Megan Maxwell , Cocke County Sheriff Armando Fontes said.

NEWPORT - High school graduation season can be a wonderful time, but it can also be pricey.

A Cocke County mom is upset on who much it cost for her child to graduate from high school.

A driver of a White Honda Accord and four passengers were arrested Friday, May 3, after undercover officers with the Cocke County Sheriff's Department saw them leave a known drug house in the vehicle, the Cocke County Sheriff's Department reported.

The Cocke County Sheriff's Office is investigating after two people were shot when a man entered the home where they were using drugs and demanded pain pills, officials said.

Robert Louis Cody, 73, 322 Greasy Cove Road, Cosby, thwarted the theft of items from his property on Thursday by blocking a truck in his driveway, then waiting for officers from the Cocke County Sheriff's Department to arrive.

A fatal accident has occurred involving a school bus in Franklin at around 7 a.m. The Tennessee Highway Patrol confirms that the driver of a jeep was killed after a bus rear-ended the vehicle at Columbia Pike at Kittrell Road.

The coveted recipe of iconic East Tennessee moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton will once again be cooked in Cocke County.