Man wanted in Oklahoma picked up by Johnson City police
A man wanted on several charges in Oklahoma was arrested by police Saturday. A Johnson City Police Department news release said officers made contact with Christopher Allen Benton, 22, in the area of...
View ArticleMeet Your Neighbor: Shannon Burchett braves it in all conditions
ELIZABETHTON — When the temperatures plummet and the mountainous roads of Carter County become snow- and ice-covered, Shannon Burchett will be on the job. Burchett is one of the hardy and brave men...
View ArticleGrant helps Johnson City schools meet mental health needs
Mountain View Elementary School is benefiting from a federal grant aimed at bolstering a partnership between teachers, parents and specialists who identify and tend to potential problems before...
View ArticleRed Cross needs help with specific blood types
If you have a blood type of either O positive, O negative, A negative or B negative, the American Red Cross may need your help. Gwen Hunter, blood donor recruiter in East Tennessee with the American...
View ArticleSix major storylines for the NASCAR season
The Daytona 500 is just over a month away and it’s just two months until the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series comes to Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City 500.This proves to be a pivotal season for NASCAR...
View ArticleJCAC fighters ready for Silver Gloves
Ty Breland would be excited about boxing in Little Rock, Ark., even if it wasn’t for a regional Silver Gloves title.Bouts are hard to come by for the 5-foot-9, 225-pound 14-year-old, and any official...
View ArticleCloudland at University School basketball
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View ArticleHead of supermarket wine sales group leaving
NASHVILLE — The campaign manager for a group advocating for supermarket wine sales in Tennessee is leaving to become the CEO of the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors.Jarron Springer has been...
View ArticleDoes Snowden deserve clemency for his actions?
Privacy groups, critics of the National Security Agency and the editorial boards of two prominent newspapers have launched campaigns calling on President Barack Obama to offer some sort of clemency to...
View ArticleOwner: Dead chickens being left at NM cemetery
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A small Albuquerque cemetery appears to be the victim of some fowl activity: Someone is leaving dead chickens and bird parts near its headstones.KRQE-TV reports that Michael...
View ArticleCrash on Boones Creek Road sends one to hospital
Authorities are on the scene of a traffic crash on Boones Creek Road that occurred around 10 a.m. Monday near the railroad trestle.According to initial reports, the single-vehicle crash involved a red...
View ArticleFly Tennessee flag correctly with pride and respect
Are you flying the Tennessee state flag correctly? Is that decal of the state’s iconic three stars from the flag you’ve attached to the rear window arranged in the proper configuration? Odds are the...
View ArticleWine bill not most important proposal on Capitol Hill
The Tennessee General Assembly will reconvene this week, and as usual, there are a number of issues that will be carried over from past sessions. One such golden oldie that looks to be finally resolved...
View ArticleMadeleine the cat always takes everything in stride
Madeleine has been my cat through two bouts of radiation treatment, which is astounding on two counts: I never thought she would live to be 18 and I never thought I would have to have radiation...
View ArticleState fund needed to help people harmed by disasters
As we noted in this space back in June, one issue left unresolved in the first half of the 108th Tennessee General Assembly was a bill to give state tax breaks to victims of the 2012 flood in...
View ArticleLife on Mars is science fiction
Despite humans’ love of fantasy, fiction and fable, the duty of science is to expose or dispel fantasy as such. Still, some scientists and many others propagate a myth that we will conquer and colonize...
View ArticleVietnam veterans
In a recent letter, Herbert D. Zeigler Jr. writes he was bothered that he was not permitted to validate his military service through having a Vietnam Veteran license plate on his car. If memory serves...
View ArticleBeware the scammers who trade on the Internet
Do you have things to sell? There are several ways you can do this. You could put an ad in the newspaper, have a yard sale and use the Internet by putting items on eBay or Craigslist. Either way, the...
View ArticleQueens for a year
Blakely Bays of Piney Flats and Lexi White of Chattanooga have a lot in common.They are heavily involved in community service activities and both are highly involved collegiate students. Bays and White...
View ArticleHistoric Jonesborough focus of history study
The State of Franklin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has completed a two-year survey of more than 300 Jonesborough homes outside the town’s established historic district that...
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