Sullivan County News

UPDATE: BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The driver of a bulldozer that smashed into a gas pipeline, sending natural gas shooting into the air just feet from Tennessee Route 126 between Bristol and Blountville on Friday, was nowhere to be found when emergency responders arrived.

Anyone wanting to run for a seat on the Sullivan County Commission or one of eight other locally elected offices can pick up a petition to get their name on the ballot starting today.

Investigators say a utility worker in northeastern Tennessee was killed when he was electrocuted and thrown from power pole.

Sullivan County officials decided Monday to change their health insurance provider next year so they can continue to provide the benefit to employees while keeping the burden on taxpayers to a minimum.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Fugitive division arrested David Blevins, 58, on Monday after receiving indictments from Sullivan County, Tenn.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office fugitive division on Monday arrested a 58-year-old man on warrants from Sullivan County for three counts of child rape.

" Sen. Roy Herron decisively won the second Democratic straw poll in the race for Governor on Saturday.

Lucy Super Pound Puppy isn't letting the fact that she may not be the world's "cutest dog" stymie her efforts to help Sullivan County build a new animal shelter.

A paralyzed man who was trapped when his car drove off an upstate New York road and plummeted down an embankment is alive to tell the tale.

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.