Hamblen County News

A Morristown foster father, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the choking death of his 16-year-old foster son, has had his sentence date continued to December.

A former employee with the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency is set to be arraigned next month on charges of theft, forgery, computer fraud, official misconduct and oppression.

The Tusculum Planning Commission voted Tuesday to recommend that the municipality adopt the 2006 version of the International Building Code for residences, commercial structures and plumbing.

Rescue crews in Hamblen County are searching Cherokee Lake for a man who is believed to have drowned after the fishing boat he was in capsized and sank after being overtaken by a wave near the Hamblen-Jefferson county line, according to Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials.

The Morristown Police Department has arrested two members of its a oeMost Wanteda list.

Authorities ruled a 60-year-old man found Wednesday in Cherokee Lake had drowned after being inexplicably separated from his 14-foot-long aluminum boat.

The body of a 60-year-old man was pulled from Cherokee Lake today and authorities are trying to determine how he died, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

Tony and Teresa Moyers of Morristown, Tennessee, wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Lea, also of Morristown, to Jeffrey Cole Draughn.

The Greeneville-Greene County Regional Solid Waste Planning Board voted unanimously Monday to recommend that the city and county accept a garbage disposal bid from TIDI Waste Systems of Hamblen County.

National Weather Service offices across the Southeast are marking a Severe Weather Awareness Day, to remind residents there's no holiday from severe weather.

The H1N1 vaccine shots have arrived in east Tennessee. At least 15 counties including Knox, have their first shipment and are waiting on more.

A Hawkins County jury will begin deliberating the fate of a Hamblen County foster father Friday.

" Three Morristown Police officers have been honored for their actions during a fire several months ago.

The jury could begin deliberating the fate of a foster father charged with murdering his foster son Thursday.

The trial of a foster father accused of applying a fatal choke hold on a teenager is making for some strange bedfellows.

Hamblen County Coroner Eddie Davis, who also runs the Morristown Emergency Childrena TMs Shelter, testifies during the trial of Kenneth Wayne Taylor on Thursday in Hawkins County.

Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a Hamblen County man accused of killing his foster child.

Police began a roundup this afternoon of more than 20 people indicted on drug charges.

Police arrested a man today on charges of possessing child pornography. Jeremiah Stallans, 28, of Talbott faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the Morristown Police Department.

Dispatchers tell Ten News that the firefighters are no longer fighting a fire at a home on McCalahan Drive.