Telford News

According to Sheriff Ed Graybeal, Washington County Investigators arrested Sylena J. Rudd, 21, 124 Chalk Level Road Telford, TN on five counts of statutory rape and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

On September 14, 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote a poem called the "The Defence of Fort McHenry." Monday, 700 students at Grand View Elementary in Telford, Tennessee, and students across the country, sang the poem set to music.

A Jonesborough woman died Thursday afternoon as the result of a two-car accident on U.S. 11E in Washington County, the Washington County Sheriff's Department has reported.

Washington Co., Tenn. - Deputies arrested three men on armed robbery charges Sunday.

Washington Co., Tenn. - Deputies arrested three men on armed robbery charges Sunday.

Johnson City Police report they've arrested two people in connection with distributing marijuana in the area.

Authorities have recovered the body of a Telford man who drowned in the Nolichucky River.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. a ' The pilot of an ultra-light airplane has escaped serious injury from a crash landing in northeastern Tennessee near the Greeneville-Greene County Municipal Airport.

James Robert Couch, 37, of 133 Lovegrove Lane, Telford, died Friday from injuries received while doing repair work on a bus in Gray.

He was changing the tire on a bus at Fellowship tours on Bob Jobe Road in Gray just after 7 p.m. Friday.

The 25th annual East Tennessee Toy Market Show and Sale, which benefits the Limestone Volunteer Fire Department, will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 4, at the gymnasium of the new Grandview Elementary School on U.S. 11E in Telford.

Agricultural equipment maker Bush Hog has agreed to a deal which will keep a northeast Tennessee plant open.

Bush Hog, LLC announced it has reached an agreement with Alo, TN, a division of Alo AB, to take over Bush Hog's Telford, Tenn.

A traveling display honoring the 58,261 American lives lost or missing in the Vietnam War is now open to the public.

Authorities have recovered the body of a pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed in southwest Virginia.

Two young Washington County men pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County Criminal Court to being accessories after the fact to the second-degree murder of a Chuckey resident in 2007.

Bush Hog operates an enormous plant off Highway 11-W in Telford. The Bush Hog plant in Telford never reached its full potential: 450 employees churning out zero-turn mowers and tractor loaders.

TELFORD, Ala. -- Nearly 150 local factory workers will lose their jobs by July 14, and if the owners of Bush Hog LLC can't sell the company's Telford plant those jobs will be lost permanently.

A Washington County grand jury has indicted Gabriel Lee Hoyle, 25, of Telford, and Brenda Bolton, 40, of Chuckey, on felony murder charges in connection with the July 4, 2008, shooting death of 21-year-old Keylando Webster, of Nashville, at Bolton's Erwin Highway residence.