Bristol News

The man police say barricaded himself in a High Point Elementary School closet Tuesday is a convicted sex offender with a history of violent behavior and mental illness documented in police and court records.

As the U.S. automakers plead before Congress, seeking billions of dollars in federal loans to stay afloat, it's clear that no matter what happens on Capitol Hill, each of the Big Three manufacturers will have ...

Tennessee House Republicans chose two local legislators Monday to leadership positions in the upcoming legislative session, including Rep.

Terry Chaffin spent a few minutes Wednesday surveying a cooler filled with frozen turkeys before selecting a 20-pound Butterball destined to grace her Thanksgiving table today.

Clint Miller, "Ballad of a Modern Day Cowboy: A Tragedy in Three Acts" In the troubled south seen by singer Clint Miller, souls sift through ramshackle romances amid a landscape littered by liquor, marital ...

Now that Republicans are in the majority on both sides of the Tennessee Assembly, the two Bristol, Tenn., legislators poised to head those chambers are confident they'll be able to influence state policy - ...

This season's first measurable snowfall blanketed the area on the anniversary of the heaviest 24-hour snowfall in Tri-Cities history, News Channel 11 meteorologist Mark Reynolds said.

State Reps. Harry Tindell and Joe Armstrong, Knoxville Democrats, say they are prepared for the Republicans to take over the state House of Representatives come January, with Armstrong emerging from the ...

Ben Vos accuses the anti-income tax soon-to-be speaker of the state house of having a geographic bias against tax reform: With the Republicans taking over the state House by a narrow one-vote margin, the likely ...

The Sullivan County Commission could vote today to spend $5,000 to help the city of Bristol, Tenn., and Wellmont pay for a road study.

In that the First Presbyterian Church of this city has recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, I think it is fitting that I devote a column to the history of this prominent local church.

The network, which debuted Tuesday at the Tri-Cities Regional Airport, is set to combine patient records from more than 75 percent of the region's health-care providers and make it readily available for doctors ...

Healing Hands Health Center will celebrate its 25,000th patient visit tonight - a benchmark that coincides with its 11th anniversary of providing free health care to the working uninsured in the greater Bristol ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. - The search for a new director of the city's school system kicked off Monday with casual meetings between the Tennessee School Boards Association and business leaders, teachers, staff and ...

Jonathan Walsh, Brenda Walsh and Wendy Steelman talk about sentencing of two teenagers Wednesday in the death of Kristal Walsh who was killed in March when a truck hit her house.

In the past three years, three women have disappeared, only later to be found dead.

Detective Robert Bedwell didn't sleep much the January week he sleuthed an abduction and rape case.

Free health care will be given tomorrow at an event in Bristol. Healing Hands Health Center, in cooperation with ETSU's College of Medicine, will offer at no cost: pap smears, prostate exams, cholesterol and ...

Tennessee Republicans can flex newfound muscle and shake the Tennessee Capitol to its foundation when they take control of the General Assembly in January.

Ever since primitive woman threw a hunk of woolly mammoth onto the fire, she began to ask the question that would be repeated through the ages: What am I going to fix for the holidays? The answer to that ...