Bristol News

Local organizers of the "tea party" movement to protest federal government size and spending are planning two events in Bristol this holiday weekend - events that are among hundreds scheduled nationwide.

A 21-year-old man who authorities said went to lunch shortly after he shot his father in the chest will be tried before a Sullivan County jury next July.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department June 26 * A man was caught sleeping in the Shelby Towers facilities television room.

Current Mayor Jim Rector is expected to retain that post when the City Council holds its annual reorganizational meeting Wednesday morning.

The Bristol depot lot was formerly a wild strawberry field in that part of the James King plantation that was known as King's Meadows.

A spotted, 5-week-old deer got off to a rough start Friday: While strolling a lonely stretch of Stagecoach Road with his mother about 8:30 a.m., a car plowed him over.

Two wolf statues stolen in Abingdon have reappeared, but three bronze caterpillars taken in nearby Bristol remain missing.

Thousands of bubbles rose up to the sky Monday night in the parking lot of Rice Terrace Apartments.

As Republican U.S. Rep. Phil Roe walked the grounds of the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba on a recent visit, he said he was reminded of another time and place - some 36 years ago and 7,900 miles away.

The latest round of state transportation funding cuts isn't expected to affect Bristol or the region, officials said Friday.

As a notorious puppy import broker sits in federal prison, one of her last victims has been making a slow but steady recovery thanks to a Southwest Virginia animal rescue group and a local veterinarian.

Two men have been charged in last month's vandalism and robbery spree in Briarwood Subdivision.

Debbie Lambert looked over a pile of charred floorboards that she had planned to use to finish out the bedroom of her Maple Avenue dream house.

Finding a new superintendent to take the reins next July after Ina Danko retires is the city School Board's top goal for the upcoming year.

One day in 1996, a woman showed up at the city's Police Department with a bag of peaches for her great-nephew, Blaine Wade.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Weaving tales about career choices, writing, his marriage and his dog with the same humor and skill that has ensnared readers worldwide, best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks gave some 700 fans what they wanted Saturday - a glimpse inside his highly successful world.

The city police officer who shot a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call has been cleared of any wrongdoing and is ready to return to the force, authorities said Thursday.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department June 9 n A young man was banned from Haynesfield Pool after getting into an argument with his girlfriend over his drinking habit.

Retail sales for Bristol Tennessee and Virginia were 12.4 percent lower for this year's first quarter than they were for the same time period last year, local economist Steb Hipple reported this week.

Two men face multiple drug charges, after an investigation by the Bristol, Virginia Police Department's Swat Team found drugs and weapons in their home.