Campbell County News Archives

Local authorities in several parts of East Tennessee have been dealing with flooded roads, traffic accidents and downed trees resulting from heavy rains that have fallen since Friday.

PINPOINT 8 WEATHER CENTER -- Flooding is a major concern for the region for Saturday.

At 8:37 a m. doppler radar revealed two areas of showers and thunderstorms over Scott and Campbell counties that were producing heavy rainfall and beginning to converge.

More than a third of Tennessee 95 counties don't have their own Web site, according to a survey by a nonprofit conservative group.

River flooding continues across parts of southeast Tennessee today with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms expected into the evening.

The money keeps drying up, but East Tennessee school officials say they've still found ways to improve school security in the wake of two school shootings in the past five years.

A crew of up to 30 state, local and federal officers cut 151,250 marijuana plants up to 6 feet tall from the mountainous terrain around Jellico in Campbell County, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Greg Brown, left, with the Tennessee Highway Patrol along with Lanny Janeway, center, with the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Joel Nixon, right, with Counter Drug Enforcement load some of the marijuana seized onto a truck near Jellico, Tenn.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent T.J. Jordan said no arrests were made. He said the plants, many taller than 6 feet, were being taken by air in slings from Campbell County to nearby Indian Mound State Park and then by truck to be destroyed.

Drug agents say they've found more than 150,000 budding marijuana plants growing in Tennessee near the Kentucky state line.

State drug agents say they have found the largest marijuana growing patch ever discovered in the State of Tennessee.

About 1,400 students at a Campbell County high school were locked down today while authorities investigated a report of a firearm in the building.

Next week: at Cleveland. 12. Morristown West : The Trojans take on Cherokee tonight.

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn. a ' Campbell County authorities made a large drug bust late Wednesday night.