Vonore News

Instead of cookouts, fireworks displays or lake retreats, nearly 300 people spent the 4th of July at an Athens TEA Party, with TEA standing for "Taxed Enough Already." "This is Independence Day, this is when we declared our independence, and we're declaring our independence from overtaxation without representation," said event organizer Annette ...

The JTEKT Corp., of Vonore, is the winner of the 2009 Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award for Excellence in Pollution Prevention.

While most people gathering at Athens Regional Park this weekend will be out to enjoy holiday activities, one group is hoping to use the opportunity to voice their concern over the way the federal government is being managed.

Police said today they've arrested a teenager for allegedly entering a 12-year-old girl's home through a window in Loudon County and having sexual contact with her last month.

Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble? Starts the familiar country gospel song. People in East Tennessee were asking each other a similar question recently.

A friendly offer of a ride by a McMinn County deputy ended with a trip to jail for a man with drugs in his pocket, according to the McMinn County Sheriff's Department.

At least three helicopters were called to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash in Monroe County Saturday evening, according to dispatchers.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research and Citizens Against Government Waste released its 2009 Tennessee Pork Report on Wednesday.

A Kingston man was jailed after he allegedly pulled a gun on a woman in Blount County and kidnapped her.

John Chalmers Thompson, of Madisonville and Erik Benson Kenney, of Loudon, were charged in December 2007 with making a narcotic hallucinogen called DMT in their next door rooms in Melrose Hall.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. a ' The U.S. Geological Survey confirms three earthquakes struck the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

A small earthquake was reported near Vonore early Saturday by the U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey.

A months-long search for a new Rhea County Public Schools superintendent may end Wednesday when the school board is expected to choose one of four final candidates.

A ride home from a local watering hole went bad early this morning after the driver and a friend allegedly kicked their passengers out a truck and then snatched a purse.

A yard sale, cookout and bake sale will be held Friday and Saturday at Food Lion, 1793 W. Broadway at Moroney's Corner.

Authorities have arrested a Madisonville man on a number of drug and weapons related charges.

A man charged with murder in Vonore last year has been indicted by a Monroe County grand jury after he was ruled mentally competent to stand trial.

Law enforcement officers in Monroe County have seized nearly a hundred vehicles, more than two dozen firearms, and a pit bull in a raid on a junkyard operation they say was fronting for drug sales.

Search crews recovered the body of 22-year-old Gary Lindsey from Tellico Lake in Vonore on Saturday afternoon.

As the economy struggles, many are turning away from the out-of-state vacations they used to enjoy.