Mount Carmel News

Mount Carmel Area students are planning several concerts and an art show in the Richard F. Bierschmitt Auditorium this week.

At first, when Ridgewood resident Brigid Miniter's mother called her last month to tell her she had exciting news, the high school freshman said she thought her family won the state lottery; they purchased a lotto ticket the night before.

A Mount Carmel man accused in a 2011 home invasion was sentenced to 15 years Friday in Hawkins County Criminal Court in exchange for guilty pleas to multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping, assault and one rape.

Mount Carmel Mayor Larry Frost didn't respond to a request made during the citizens' comments portion of Tuesday's Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting seeking his wife's resignation from her seat on the BMA.

The Mount Carmel Board of Mayor and Aldermen trimmed about $3,000 from its proposed 2013-14 budget Tuesday night, but there's still a deficit of about $103,000 that must be eliminated.