Greene County News

A packed house greeted Norfolk Southern for their first public meeting regarding a 280-acre intermodal transport facility in New Market.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -- A hiker from Illinois is recovering at an eastern Tennessee hospital after being bitten by a snake on the Appalachian Trail.

The Greene County Partnership's Trails Committee is holding a contest to design a logo for use with its "Northeast Tennessee Outdoors" Web site and promotional materials.

A three-year-old boy was injured Saturday morning when he apparently was backed over by a sport-utility vehicle at a Cherokee Boulevard residence.

When 19-year-old Leonora Haseltine Whitaker arrived at the Ebenezer Mission in December of 1909, sub-zero temperatures and waist-deep snow greeted her.

State budget cuts are forcing the Department of Child Services to make some tough choices - decisions that have some Greene County Juvenile Court officials firing back.

Before Victoria Paige Green steps out on stage to compete in the Miss Tennessee Scholarship pageant tonight, she will say a prayer and sing a song to herself.

The Greene County Sheriff's Department is warning the public to beware of unsolicited phone calls in which the caller informs residents that their debit cards have been canceled.

Dawn Guthry dropped to the floor and crawled, nearly blind in the black smoke. Flames crackled around her.

Beautiful summer weather greeted the hundreds who attended the annual "Mosheim Fun Days" events this weekend.

Sun photo by bob hurley His Purple Heart and one of his Bronze Star Medals from the days following D-Day have been lost or burned in the 65 years that have passed, but Oscar Payne, of Baileyton, has managed to hold on to this one, the second Bronze Star Medal he was awarded for heroic or meritorious service during World War II in Europe.

Investigators believe they know the identity of a woman killed in a Greene County house fire.

Greeneville voters on Tuesday elected two new aldermen, businessmen Buddy Hawk and Keith Paxton.

GREENEVILLE - Fire officials in Greene County say a woman died in a mobile home fire before dawn.

Greene County authorities say they have recovered a man's body from the Nolichucky River.

The Greene County Sheriff's Department confirmed that a man's body had been found near Chuckey Beach off Sandbar Road.

An Afton man was injured about 6:50 p.m. Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding struck the rear of a pickup truck on the Tusculum Bypass at its intersection with Edens Road.

A western Greene County man suffered serious burns while apparently attempting to use gasoline to burn brush near his home on Tuesday night.

NewportPlainTalk.com has launched CockeCountyMarketplace.com , a comprehensive directory of 1,052 businesses in Newport and Cocke County.

Three Greeneville High School seniors have been charged in connection with the bow & arrow slayings of 2 cows and a calf.