Hawkins County News

A judge has banned two students from a high school campus in Rogersville after one was accused of circulating a video of a cat being stabbed.

A Hawkins County woman is charged with aggravated domestic assault after police say she tried to stab her husband with a kitchen knife.

A Rogersville teenager has been charged with willful elder abuse after police say he assaulted his 60 year old grandmother.

A Greeneville man is arrested and charged with attempted first degree murder after a shooting early Saturday morning in Rogersville.

The Greeneville Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Greene County Commission jointly agreed Wednesday to sign a new solid waste contract with a Morristown firm that was the lowest bidder.

A northeast Tennessee man serving five years in prison for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old girl in Kentucky now faces eight more years after being sentenced on a child porn charge.

A Surgoinsville man is behind bars today, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.

The Greeneville-Greene County Regional Solid Waste Planning Board voted unanimously Monday to recommend that the city and county accept a garbage disposal bid from TIDI Waste Systems of Hamblen County.

A routine traffic stop Thursday led to Rogersville City School being locked down for a short time, just moments after police had finished a lockdown drill at the school.

The Greeneville-Greene County Regional Solid Waste Planning Board voted unanimously Tuesday to reverse an earlier decision and seek proposals for garbage disposal from privately-operated landfills.

A Hawkins County jury will begin deliberating the fate of a Hamblen County foster father Friday.

A Hawkins County jury is scheduled to begin deliberations Friday morning in the trial of a Morristown man accused of strangling his foster son.

A Hawkins County man was rescued from his burning home on Shanks Gap Road Thursday afternoon by two Stanley Valley firefighters, one of whom was the victim's nephew, but the victim later succumbed to injuries after arriving at the hospital.

A Hawkins County jury now has the case of a Morristown man accused of fatally strangling his 16-year-old foster son.

The jury could begin deliberating the fate of a foster father charged with murdering his foster son Thursday.

The trial of a foster father accused of applying a fatal choke hold on a teenager is making for some strange bedfellows.

Hamblen County Coroner Eddie Davis, who also runs the Morristown Emergency Childrena TMs Shelter, testifies during the trial of Kenneth Wayne Taylor on Thursday in Hawkins County.

A Hawkins County man was charged with carjacking and aggravated kidnapping following an incident early this morning in which he allegedly attempted to drive a pickup truck occupied by a woman from a Baileyton travel center.

Was it self defense, or excessive force that led to the death of a teen in Hawkins County? The prosecution and defense are painting very different pictures of a choke hold that Kenneth Taylor allegedly applied to his 16-year-old foster son, Jordan Shelton in November 2007.

A Hawkins County Jail inmate was in serious condition Monday with a brain hemorrhage after allegedly being attacked in the jail Sunday by a fellow inmate.