Bybee News

After first pleading guilty last September, then withdrawing her plea in May, a Bybee woman again entered a guilty plea on Wednesday to a charge of aggravated robbery.

Three employees of Laughlin Memorial Hospital are happy to be alive this morning after a freak accident in which a tree fell on their rental vehicle Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities are saying they have a Bridgeton man in custody who they claim sexually assaulted a woman in a peach orchard here late last month.

Brittany Smith, 14, of Bybee, shot this turkey while on a hunt with her father, Norman Smith.

The former executive director of Community House Cooperative will serve three years in the Community Corrections Program, pay a $1,000 fine, and make restitution to the community service organization after pleading guilty in an embezzlement case this week in Cocke County Circuit Court.

Lorri Baxter, left, who serves as Unit Commissioner for Cocke County received the District Award of Merit from Boy Scout's Cherokee District Executive Christian Nelms Tuesday evening.

Efforts are underway to restore a church in the Bybee community. Joseph's Chapel Free Will Baptist Church's building originally housed Syracuse School.

Owned by Shawn and Kathy Hemsworth, neither the building nor its contents were insured.

It's supposed to be a nurturing place, but for thousands of students, just going to school in the morning can be a terrorizing experience.

Truckers across the nation have come to the financial aid of a Bybee man stricken with advanced cancer and unable to drive his rig any longer.

The Cocke County Legislative Body will consider numerous resolutions in its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.

Bonds of a quarter of a million dollars will not be reduced for defendants in a major marijuana conspiracy case, Circuit Judge Ben W. Hooper II ruled on Wednesday.

Cocke County Circuit Judge Ben Hooper ruled Wednesday that the bonds set for defendants in an alleged far-flung marijuana conspiracy case are not excessive.

An article appearing in the Tuesday, Jan. 20, edition of the Plain Talk listed the wrong name of one of the suspects allegedly involved in the aggravated burglary of $30,000 worth of cash and jewelry from the ...

Two men allegedly involved in the theft of $30,000 worth of cash and jewelry from a Newport home on New Year's Day have been arrested according to Cocke County Sheriff Claude Strange.

Members of the Cocke County Grand Jury dealt with 49 criminal cases in the first day of a two-day session on Monday.

Zola Heritage, of Bybee, will celebrate her 98th birthday Dec. 29. Since she was a small girl she has attended Clay Creek Baptist Church.