Monroe County News

No matter how many ways you look at it, 2 + 2 will always equal 4. It won't equal 5, no matter how much you want it to.

"We were 15 to 20 years ahead of our time," A.C. Wilson said. "We should have waited until the '80s and built a bottling plant."

The U.S. attorney who warned last week that "inflammatory speech" against Islam could violate civil-rights laws was the prosecutor who brought firearms charges against a Navy veteran who challenged the validity of President Obama's birth certificate.

Black Tennesseans are arrested on marijuana possession charges four times as much as whites, despite both races using the drug at roughly the same rate, according to a new study by the American Civil Liberties Union.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of members of the Occupy Nashville movement who claimed their free speech rights were violated when they were arrested while protesting in 2011 on War Memorial Plaza.

A permanent fix to overcrowding at the Monroe County Jail is one step closer to a reality after a committee voted to recommend building a new facility outside of downtown Madisonville.

The old cemetery is home to the remains of members of the Click and McLemore families, including a private in the War of 1812.

Two Monroe County men pleaded guilty to a bribing voter charges in Monroe County Criminal Court Monday, but if they stay out of trouble, the conviction will be removed from their records in two years.

Three former Knoxville Police Department officers who were accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a Knoxville man took plea deals in court Monday.

On Thursday, Monroe County deputies and animal control officers responded to the home on 188 Ditmore Hollow Road in Tellico Plains.

On Thursday, deputies of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office along with agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation located and arrested six county residents as part of an ongoing long-term investigation into the illegal distribution of schedule II controlled substances, prescription pain pills, in violation of Title 21, United States Code.

One local Y is helping to produce healthy snacks for local food banks and summer camps and they want to help others learn how to grow their own food as well.

Six Monroe County residents have been indicted on federal charges in connection with an illegal prescription pill ring, authorities said.

Mark Pickel, a former administrator in Polk County and Athens City Schools, is returning to where he began his education career.

Cherokee Heritage Center officials celebrated Monday the opening of Diligwa, a new village portraying the most authentic Cherokee experience based on life in 1710.

A Sweetwater area woman who failed to appear for her arraignment date on a murder charge last week turned up Friday.

The family of a Monroe County boy fighting leukemia received a big surprise Saturday night.

In just a few months, a national retail chain will open its doors in a Monroe County town for the first time.

"My family is still here. My Mom and Dad are still here, so I always come back here.

Sheriff Joe Guy says they have several pieces of jewelry on display at the Justice Center that were recovered after a recent arrest.