Anderson County News

It's been more than a month since a Campbell County animal shelter closed amid allegations that animals were improperly euthanized, but now, some residents said they are concerned because pets are being abandoned in their neighborhood.

A fundraising carnival will be held Saturday at Norris Elementary School for a Clinton man, diagnosed in January with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and his 5-year-old daughter, diagnosed with leukemia in April.

A month before he was indicted for vehicular homicide by intoxication and recklessness in the November 2012 deaths of two women, an Anderson County man with a history of DUI convictions was arrested on yet another DUI charge, records show.

Officials are offering up to a $22,000 reward for information leading to convictions in the shooting of two bald eagles in eastern Tennessee.

An Anderson County school bus landed on its side after trying to avoid an oncoming car Tuesday morning.

By MONA NAIR 6 News Reporter CAMP CREEK It's been two years since a deadly tornado hit the Camp Creek community in Greene County.

Barry Thacker, president of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, explains the history of the Coal Creek War during a ceremony Friday at the site of Fort Anderson on Militia Hill.

A Clinton man has been indicted in the deaths of two women as a result of a three-vehicle collision on Oliver Springs Highway last November.

After hours of line-item reviews, a key Anderson County Commission committee Thursday night recommended a no-tax-increase budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. But an 800-pound gorilla remains in the room: a Sheriff's Department budget that Sheriff Paul White contends doesn't include enough money to adequately staff a 212-bed addition to ... (more)

A man accused of luring another man half his age to a Claxton-area mausoleum, locking the door, forcing the victim to drink alcohol and then performing oral sex on him has been indicted by an Anderson County grand jury.

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel Live Music will be provided from the Gazebo at Brownworth Manor at the annual "Tribute to Business - Dinner on the Lawn" event on Friday, June 7. The Gazebo was built with stone from Norris Dam.

A July 16 trial date has been set in the case in which Tony and Terry Honeycutt, owners of the Brainerd Army Store, face federal charges of selling large amounts of ingredients allegedly used in meth production.

A Criminal Court jury has convicted a Chickamauga man of attempted second-degree murder in connection with a road rage incident in the vicinity of the Ridge Cut.

The TBI and local sheriff's deputies arrested James Wylie, 54, after he was indicted in the homicide case last week.

A grand jury indicted James Wylie, 54, on one count of criminal homicide, one count of kidnapping and one count of leaving the scene of a death or personal injury.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Anderson County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday arrested an Anderson County man indicted last week by the Anderson County grand jury for the death of a female found dead along a road in September, 2012.

A Clinton man charged in the death of a Lake City woman who fell from his moving vehicle remained in the Anderson County Jail on Tuesday afternoon, charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping and leaving the scene of a death or personal injury.

It had all the ingredients of a heart-rending holiday tragedy: A family returning home from a shopping spree hit head-on by a drunken driver leaving a nighttime office Christmas party.

Bolling, 39, a former Anderson County commissioner who served as Oliver Springs city manager for five years and ran for Anderson County mayor in 2010, has been hired as the new Kingston city manager.

Three finalists for city manager will be interviewed Friday, and City Council may make a job offer that afternoon, Mayor Troy Beets said.