Washington County News

Children in Washington County, Tenn. schools will be vaccinated against the H1N1 flu on Tuesday, Dec.

With a $1.5 billion budget shortfall becoming more and more of a possibility in Tennessee, desperate times are calling for desperate measures.

Visitors of Tennessee's oldest town will soon get some much-needed relief. Jonesborough leaders say its town's Main Street will soon have the one thing it has lacked during the last several years; a place for tourists to use the restroom.

A food distribution at Anderson Street United Methodist Church on a rainy Thursday morning drew 78 households representing 225 people, some lining up hours before the supplies were scheduled to be passed out.

Investigators told us this evening that charges are pending in a Wednesday morning crash that claimed the life of an East Tennessee State University administrator.

According to Sheriff Ed Graybeal, Robert G. Davenport Jr., 32 of 4515 Cherokee Road in Jonesborough, was charged with two counts of Aggravated Burglary.

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Alice Ann Smith's third-grade class at Lamar School in Washington County, Tenn. brought in supplies, over a one month period, to be donated to the Washington County/ Johnson City Animal Shelter as a community service project.

The Johnson City Police Department says all lanes are back open on Interstate 26 at the Gray exit after two cars hit head-on in the eastbound lanes.

It will be another four months before a judge decides whether or not a man should stand trial for a 10 year-old double murder.

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.