Newport News

As locally grown garden products ripen, the Newport Farmer's Market is taking off.

Smoky Mountain Elementary School received its new playground equipment Monday afternoon.

A suspicious fire destroyed a mobile home located on Midway Circle in Midway early Sunday, according to the Greene County Sheriff's Department.

Heat wilted weeds that basked in the cooler light of the new moon over our hometown with the sounds of hot engines racing at local tracks in the distance.

The monthly meeting for the Cocke County Regional Planning Commission will be held in the conference room at the County Annex, Tuesday, July 22, at 6 p.m. Items on the agenda will include new business ...

There are, they say, three things a woman never reveals: her weight, her age and, nowadays, her income.

The Cocke County Commodities Distribution will be Tuesday, Aug. 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, off Cosby Highway.

Local citizens commuting to and from jobs in Sevier County will soon have the opportunity to save on fuel costs by riding a local bus.

In one of just a handful of local cases in which genetic evidence has been a key element, a seven-man, five woman Cocke County criminal court jury convicted a local man Wednesday of three charges in connection ...

American Legion Post 41 plans a flag burning service and ceremony for 6 p.m., Veteran's Day, Tuesday, Nov.

Four men are being held in the Cocke County Jail on robbery and aggravated assault charges in connection with the severe beating of Lacie Vernon Moore, no age or address given, who was allegedly bound and ...

Newport Utilities will be replacing some damaged equipment in the Cosby Sub Station at 1 a.m. Friday night, July 18.

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The family of a local man was advised Monday by his attorney to consult a civil rights lawyer about why he was accused of TennCare fraud last week by the Cocke County Grand Jury.

A 73-year-old Newport man whose sentence in a sexual battery case was slashed by two-thirds in 2007 by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals failed Monday in his bid to have his 2005 guilty plea thrown out of ...

Eula Clement Stokely, of Newport, will celebrate her 92nd birthday on July 11. She is the widow of Ben D. Stokely.

A Cocke County man has been sentenced for the hit-and-run that killed a Knoxville teenager.

A fight over a woman turned deadly this morning, authorities said. Brent Gentry, 38, of Del Rio died after being stabbed during a fight around 1 a.m. at the Midnight Rodeo nightclub, 1071 West Highway 25/70, ...

Patrolman Billy Woody was dispatched to the home of Jimmy Pruitt, 48, 235 Melton Ave., Newport, Wednesday morning after receiving a call concerning shots fired at the residence.

Ten more indictments were returned by the Cocke County Grand Jury on Tuesday, the second day of the panel's two-day session this week.