Bulls Gap News

BY KEN LITTLE STAFF WRITER The state Court of Criminal Appeals last week denied the appeal of a Bulls Gap woman convicted of aggravated assault for firing a weapon near Greeneville Light & Power System contractors who were spraying herbicide in the area of her home on Stone Mountain Road in 2009.

BY KEN LITTLE STAFF WRITER All four people involved in a deadly two-vehicle collision Sunday afternoon in Morristown have Greene County ties.

Morristown police identified two people killed in a Sunday crash shortly before 1:00 p.m. Officials said Kylar Travis Lewis, 19, of Bulls Gap lost control of his Nissan Sentra on E. Morris Boulevard, crossed over the median and struck a Chevy Envoy traveling in the other direction.

While responding to a verbal dispute on Virgil Avenue, police were alerted that an individual present had an active warrant out of Georgia.

The Hawkins County Board of Education voted Tuesday to authorize the adult education department to apply for grant funding up to $30,000 that would help pay for English literacy and civics classes primarily for non-citizens. Hawkins County adult education instructor Lisa Mullins, who is drafting the grant application, told the BOE on Tuesday that ... (more)

A Southwest Virginia man is facing murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a woman to death in her home Thursday afternoon, Lee County authorities said.

The Morristown woman who was reportedly grazed by a bullet fired by an 86-year-old Bulls Gap woman during a Feb.

About 100 pills, 40 syringes and a vehicle were seized from a Bulls Gap woman Monday evening as a result of a traffic stop initiated by a reckless driver complaint.

A Hawkins County 17-year-old is accused of faking school administrators' email accounts in an attempt to close schools.

David Shawn Harris, 37, of Bulls Gap, ran from the Hawkins County Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, but was caught a short distance from the building.

The former TRW Automotive employee accused of calling in a bogus bomb threat last year at the Rogersville plant is on Friday's Hawkins County Criminal Court docket for a plea.

Police were called to Kroger on East Stone Drive, where employees had a shoplifter in custody.