Greene County News

Nolachuckey and Baileyton picked up season-opening doubleheader victories in Monday night's Greene County Elementary Basketball League action.

Sun Photo by Phil Gentry These aerial photos taken on Monday show the extent of work being done for the runway realignment project at the Greeneville-Greene County Municipal Airport.

The Greene County School System's Report Card letter grades received Tuesday from the Tennessee Department of Education were lower this year.

October was the third-wettest month of 2009 in Greene County, according to data provided by the University of Tennessee Research & Education Center on East Allens Bridge Road.

Greene County authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and woman as a murder-suicide. According to WJHL in Johnson City, a family member found Johnny Heck, 50, and Elizabeth Powell, 44, dead inside Heck's home on Oasis Road Sunday evening.

GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. a ' Authorities have made a large marijuana bust along the Cocke County, Greene County line.

A kerosene heater may have caused a fire Saturday night that seriously damaged a residence at 704 Lamons Road in western Greene County.

A Greene County man was charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses by Hawkins County authorities in connection with a shooting incident early Saturday near Rogersville.

Greene County sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting deaths Sunday of a man and a woman at an Oasis Road residence as a possible murder-suicide. Greene County Sheriff Steve Burns this morning identified the victims as Johnny Heck, Jr., 50, of 2003 Oasis Road, and Elizabeth Powell, 44, of Gilbreath Road.

A man and woman died of gunshot wounds inside a home in Greene County, Tennessee, WGRV radio reported Monday morning.

A 65-year-old Greeneville man escaped serious injury on Thursday when the pickup truck he was driving went off Asheville Highway near Marshall Lane and plunged into a deep ravine.

Greene County sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting incident late Thursday outside a Dyer Hollow Road residence that seriously injured a man.

The Greeneville Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Greene County Commission jointly agreed Wednesday to sign a new solid waste contract with a Morristown firm that was the lowest bidder.

A Greene County couple was awakened by smoke detectors in time to escape their burning home without injury about 5:45 a.m. today.

Sun Photo by Bill Jones Cecil Crum, shown wearing red jacket at left above, speaks during a Sunday afternoon dedication ceremony for the military monument on which he is standing.

The Greene County Board of Education on Thursday approved the criteria and procedures for use in a search for a new director of schools.

The Greeneville-Greene County Regional Solid Waste Planning Board voted unanimously Tuesday to reverse an earlier decision and seek proposals for garbage disposal from privately-operated landfills.

Three Greene County students in a school bus and the driver of a car were injured Friday morning in a collision in Mosheim.

The Greeneville City School System's "Greeneville Global Initiative" took another important step forward Thursday and Friday with a visit from Jim Duncan, a principal from the Central American country of Belize.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 6-week-old boy, who passed away on Monday.