Sweetwater News

A Sweetwater man has been charged with rape of a child after he allegedly performed a sexual act on a child Saturday in the Duck Park.

A native of Sweetwater, Tenn., he was the son of the late Charles and Amelia Dender Randolph.

Jeffery Scott Hunt, 46, Deer Trail address off of Eureka Road, the driver of a white Ford Explorer, was headed northbound when the vehicle left the roadway, traveled down an embankment, then struck a tree.

On Saturday, April 27, Brooklynn Petty drilled at the Children's Bible Drill in Lubbock at Calvary Baptist Church.

A Nashville jury has convicted a 61-year-old man for the decades-old death of an elderly woman found strangled in her home.

A woman in Sweetwater thought she had found a trustworthy mechanic three years ago, but the results have been disappointing.

A Sweetwater man is facing numerous charges from the Sweetwater Police Department and Tennessee Highway Patrol after he allegedly threatened people with a gun in Sweetwater Friday night then led police on a 100-mph chase before crashing head-on into another car.

They say 34-year-old Steven Avener Carter of Sweetwater was waving a pistol and pointing it at people, including two toddlers, from inside a car on Wright St.

On the rear bumper of his Ford Ranger pickup truck, biologist Erich Eichler proudly displays a sticker that states "I Brake for Armadillos." "What most people don't realize is I brake for armadillos after they are already road kill," laughed Eichler, a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

The Advocate & Democrat spoke Thursday with the man who will serve as the store's manager when it opens, Daniel Casillas.

The Worthington Group of Tennessee LLC, developer of Willow Creek and other residential communities, has selected Frontier Management, one of the nations top senior care management companies to manage their newest offering, Creekside Pointe - Assisted Living and Memory Care.