Downtown businesses deal with break damage
Downtown business owners and employees have grown accustomed to flooding during Johnson City’s rainy season, but none of them expected a deluge Monday when the weather was sunny and fair. When a heavy...
View ArticleLady Toppers vs Dobyns Bennett volleyball
SHHS vs D-Bennett volleyball Dave Boyd/Johnson City Press
View ArticleState should do more to protect teen drivers
Teen drivers in Tennessee are more likely to be involved in a fatal car accident than their counterparts in more than 40 other states. Records indicate that Tennessee is ranked in the top 10 states in...
View Article‘Juice’ is back, but is that bad?
Over the past year or so, Major League Baseball has been the center of attention for all the wrong reasons. For years baseball prided itself in saying the game is as clean as it ever has been. Now it...
View ArticleKingsport police charge two mothers with child neglect
A pair of women have been arrested after they were allegedly found passed out in separate Kingsport parking lots, leaving their young children unattended in vehicles.One woman’s child continually asked...
View ArticleMotions hearing set for December in Larkin case
ELIZABETHTON — Defense attorneys for Dale Larkin, whose murder conviction in his wife’s 2003 drowning death was overturned earlier this year, will argue in December that evidence from his first trial...
View ArticleTenn. digitizing 1M pages of historical newspapers
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee State Library and Archives is adding more than 1 million newspaper pages to its free online collection.The newly added historical newspapers from Greeneville, Jonesborough,...
View ArticleJohnson City Power Board restructures residential charges
While approving a pass-through rate increase announced earlier in the year by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Johnson City Power Board’s board of directors also made changes to the utility’s rate...
View ArticleHospital guest house drive slow process
Now in its eighth year, the capital campaign to build a new Hospital Guest House of Southern Appalachia is progressing slowly and remains in need of a good, strong shot in the arm. With the proceeds...
View ArticleFamiliar breads return to markets
Grocery shoppers may have noticed some familiar packages in the bread aisle this week that have been missing for nearly a year. Starting Monday, Merita and Wonder breads were restocked on local...
View ArticleAirfield lighting system problem causes flight to TCRA to be diverted
BLOUNTVILLE - A Monday evening Delta Connection flight coming into Tri-Cities Regional Airport had to be diverted to Knoxville after problems developed with the airfield lighting system, TCRA Executive...
View ArticleThe Buzz: News worth knowing on JohnsonCityPress.com
Here are eight newsworthy stories that have appeared on JohnsonCityPress.com the past few days that you may have missed:° Two more indicted in Johnson City murderTwo more people were indicted...
View ArticleFBI agents work in nightmarish scene at Kenya mall
NAIROBI, Kenya — Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities and...
View ArticleKingsport traffic fatalities hit eight-year high
Though Kingsport's 14 traffic fatalities in 2013 are the most seen in a calendar year since 20 deaths in 2005, police say there's little they can do about the overriding factors in such tragedies: poor...
View ArticleExplore Rainforest Adventure on Exhibit at Hands On! Regional Museum
Explore Rainforest Adventure on Exhibit at Hands On! Regional Museum September 28, 2013 - January 5, 2014(423) 434-HANDHands On Regional Museum315 E Main St Johnson City, TN...
View ArticleHot Topics: Attention, everyone: It’s time to talk about our feelings
Attention, everyone: It’s time to talk about our feelingsBy Kris HeyOrlando Sentinel(MCT)I grew up in a home where feelings weren’t discussed and verbal and physical expressions of love were...
View ArticleGoing Places: Wooded campsites and waterfalls await visitors at Rock Creek...
ERWIN, Tenn. – Earl and Cindy Booth live just three miles from Rock Creek Recreation Area, but it’s been their vacation spot of choice for some 30 years.“We’ve just always come up here,” Cindy Booth...
View ArticleBucs' cross country in ‘Chase’ for title
East Tennessee State’s Adam Chase is a champion in the steeplechase and an academic All-American.He’s turning into a pretty good cross country runner, too.The junior from Kingsport finished third in a...
View ArticleMan receives 16-year term in 2012 shooting case
A Jonesborough man who shot another man in the face during an argument last year was sentenced to 16 years in prison during a hearing Wednesday. Freddie Mitchell Lewis, aka Rooster, 33, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleRegional summit tackles prescription drug abuse
As numbers associated with prescription drug abuse continue to soar nationwide, communities in and around the Appalachian region — including Washington County — have been feeling the impacts of...
View Article