Fentress County News

The city of Jamestown is home to the Fentress County Chamber of Commerce, the official headquarters for the annual "World's Longest Yard Sale" on Highway 127.

The Fentress County Grand Jury has indicted a high school teacher for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student.

A Fentress County teacher is charged with statutory rape after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says she had sex with a 16-year-old student.

Five miles southwest of Jamestown, at the bottom of an 870-foot gorge carved by Buffalo Creek, sits a cluster of abandoned buildings built of sandstone and wood.

An East Tennessee teacher is off the job amid allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with a student.

On perhaps the worst day of his life, Tommy Burnett leaned back in the chair of a federal courtroom - vacated moments earlier, after the usual post-trial formalities, by a judge and the jury that had just pronounced him guilty of an array of crimes - managed a semi-smile and a wave as a cluster of reporters surrounded him.

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

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Former state House Majority Leader Tommy Burnett, whose political career survived his first federal conviction but not his second, has died.

Tennessee's two winningest basketball coaches were in the same room Thursday night to help raise money for a great cause.

Friends of a missing Fentress County man located his body Friday evening in Lancing.

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"I had nothing to do with the economy, the turndown of the economy," said Detweiler in a telephone interview Monday.

Dear Ken: How old is Mickey Mouse and how many people have provided his voice in cartoons over the years? According to the Disney Archives, the little mouse with the big ears and high-pitched voice turns 81 on Nov.

An Ohio man charged with criminal simulation in connection with a counterfeit $100 bill passed in Cumberland County is now one of three persons facing similar charges in Fentress County.

An Ohio man charged with criminal simulation in connection with a counterfeit $100 bill passed in Cumberland County is now one of three persons facing similar charges in Fentress County.

An Ohio man charged with criminal simulation in connection with a counterfeit $100 bill passed in Cumberland County is now one of three persons facing similar charges in Fentress County.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol is reporting that I-40 exit 317 at U.S. 127 in Cumberland County between Knoxville and Nashville has traffic backed up on the ramps in both directions and won't return to normal until Sunday.. See the Smartway map from the Tennesseee Department of Transportation.

Staff Photo by Margaret Fenton Judy Kazemersky laughs with her uncle, Dan Morgan, as they sit in the shade of their booth on Signal Mountain Wednesday morning.