Washington County News

A northeast Tennessee teenager has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash. Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal says when deputies arrived Sunday evening to investigate a crash report, they found an ambulance crew trying to revive a young girl.

A crash just before four this morning sent one to the hospital. It happened on Highway 81, in Washington County, Tenn., near the intersection of Deacon Creek Road, about a mile from the Unicoi County line.

As Washington County leaders get ready to dedicate the county's new courthouse in Jonesborough Friday, those leaders also prepare for the possible sale of one of the county's old courthouses.

Two people from Elizabethton are in trouble with the law after police arrested them for stealing items out of someone's car.

Tennessee police say a mechanic was drumming up business by tampering with parked cars, then charging to help start them.

A father-and-son team was arrested after police accused them of kicking in the back door of a Piney Flats home two weeks ago and stealing several thousand dollars in jewelry and high-end electronics.

Tennessee police say a mechanic was drumming up business by tampering with parked cars, then charging to help start them.Police arrested 41-year-old Christopher Walls of Johnson City on Thursday night.Investigators say Walls disabled cars parked at restaurants, waited for the owners to try to start them and then offered his services as a mechanic.

Washington County, Tennessee dispatch says Highway 81 South, stretching from Unicoi County into Washington County, is closed until at least 9:00 p.m. due to a tractor trailer crash.

Three people will appear in Washington County General Sessions Court on Thursday, after Johnson City Police arrested them in connection to multiple auto burglaries that occurred at a local restaurant.

With current Washington County, Tennessee, Mayor George Jaynes set to retire at the end of his term, two men are now vying for the county's top spot.

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.

Police in northeast Tennessee say a man shot a truck that two private investigators had abandoned when he pulled a shotgun, then went home and awaited arrest.

According to Sheriff Ed Graybeal, Washington County Investigators arrested Sylena J. Rudd, 21, 124 Chalk Level Road Telford, TN on five counts of statutory rape and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

An Elizabethton man has been arrested and charged with 4 counts of rape of a child.

Several indoor pot growing operations have been discovered in the past week in Washington County, Tennessee and this may be a sign the pot business is changing in our region.

A woman accused of helping her son dispose of the bodies of a teenage couple the man is accused of killing in Johnson City has died.

The Johnson City Police Department reports today that they've wrapped up two separate theft cases.

The Greene County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of an infant from northern Greene County who died Monday at the Johnson City Medical Center.

As a Washington County, Tennessee, man recovers from a gunshot wound, investigators search for his attacker.

For the next year, people across Washington County, Tennessee, will hear all about a "First Lady" from Telford.