Sullivan County News

Tennessee State Treasurer David H. Lillard, Jr., accompanied by Rep. Jason Mumpower, Rep.

For Ada Flaherty, it's a drive up North. For her clients - animals in need of homes - it's a new life story.

Authorities have upped the charges on a woman arrested Thursday after police stumbled upon a meth lab in her kitchen.

Authorities happened upon a meth lab in a Sullivan County trailer park Thursday afternoon when they arrived to serve a warrant for failing to appear in court on a traffic charge.

Sullivan County Sheriff's Office charged a Bluff City man with several burglaries over the last couple of months.

Nine of Sullivan County's 24 public elementary and middle schools scored a "C" average on an annual report card released Tuesday by the Tennessee Department of Education.

A Sullivan County man entered a last-minute guilty plea to reduced charges in the death of his girlfriend's toddler son and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Giving the nod to property rights over gun rights, state Attorney General Bob Cooper opines that landlords can bar tenants from bringing weapons on the property even if said tenants have handgun carry permits.

Several bottles of whiskey were indeed heisted from a Sullivan County school system warehouse during a recent break-in, but school officials deny the eight pornographic DVDs found along with them were ever in the building.

An internal report by Sullivan County schools officials explains where whiskey taken from a school system warehouse came from.

After several stolen items were located at a local pawn shop, a father and son are in jail - charged with burglary.

The Sullivan County Board of Education is considering the closure of Bristol's Akard Elementary School so it can renovate a school in Kingsport.

A former student of the Sullivan County school system is accused of breaking into an off-the-beaten path Department of Education warehouse and stealing, among other things, several bottles of liquor and $160 worth of pornographic DVDs.

The Greeneville Board of Education on Thursday evening approved the school calendars for the 2010-11 academic year.

Children are one of the most at-risk groups for H1N1, and area school systems including Washington County, TN, Washington County, VA, Sullivan County, Carter County, Greene County, and Unicoi County want to make sure they are protected from the illness.

HICKORY TREE, Tenn. - Private First Class Lawrence Carrier was building a bridge when the Chinese Army attacked his unit and killed him July 8, 1953.

A man authorities accuse of being one of Sullivan County's top drug dealers was busted early Friday when 40 officers from eight units split up and simultaneously raided both his home and his business.

The Sullivan County elections administrator says felons have been illegally voting for years and he wants them prosecuted.

Students in Sullivan County are getting more personalized attention thanks to federal stimulus dollars.

Local United Way officials announced Thursday they've almost reached the halfway point in their effort to raise $1.25 million this year.