Atoka News

Shortly after he fled a May 2012 crash that killed two adults and an unborn child, Curtis Scott Harper admitted in a phone conversation that he was intoxicated, according to testimony today in his Knox County Criminal Court trial.

The release said the Tennessee Department of Children's Services notified police about a child sex abuse allegation on March 6. Investigators determined that Blackwell, who was a friend of the child's family, had sexual contact with the girl in December at a Jackson hotel, the release said.

To be or not to be, that is the question in Atoka as officials study the feasibility of creating its own fire department.