Polk County News

Sentencing is set to begin in federal court Thursday for 65-year-old Jimmy Goddard.

If it weren't for a couple dozen tireless people who volunteered their time no one would have ever found the remains of a woman who disappeared 53 years ago.

Submitted by Bill Mitchell on October 16, 2009 - 7:31pm. Polk County News A A A A The State of Tennessee officially recognizes the efforts of a dozen people who were part of the nation's oldest missing persons case that was solved.

An exhibit of color photography by Jim Caldwell is now on display at the L&N Depot Museum in Etowah.

An endangered child alert has been issued in Tennessee for a missing 14-year-old Polk County, Ga.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has opened its floodgates to spill water through seven of its 29 dams because of heavy rains across its seven-state region.

Two fatal wrecks occurred in Polk County Monday, one of them involving teenagers.

The McMinn County Sheriff's Department and other area law enforcement officers are looking for a man who led officers from two counties on a high-speed chase that ended with a wreck with injuries Friday night.

Polk County deputies are searching for a man who they say cut off an electronic ankle monitor and may be on the run with his 73-year-old father.

There are, in Southeast Tennessee, numerous Creeks and every river that bears a name that has been brought down to the present through hundreds and possibly thousands of years from the Native Americans who once lived here.

Submitted by WDEF on September 7, 2009 - 7:13pm. Polk County News A A A A Polk county investigators are looking for a suspect from a shooting overnight.

Detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office are looking for a gunman who got into a shootout with workers at the water treatment plant in Cantrell Flats area at a Intertrade Holdings Facility.

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CHATTANOOGA - With $6.5 million already spent amid decades of haggling about a highway project that Gov.

CHATTANOOGA - With $6.5 million already spent amid decades of haggling about a highway project that Gov.

A minor earthquake rattled the mountainous area of southeastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and northern Georgia this morning.

Submitted by Amy Katcher on July 30, 2009 - 8:01pm. News Weather Video Bledsoe County News Bradley County News Hamilton County News Marion County News McMinn County News Meigs County News Polk County News Rhea County News Sequatchie County News Van Buren County News Comments Below: 0 A *Flash Flood Watch* is in effect for Jackson and DeKalb ...

A home goes up in flames in Polk county. Dispatchers confirm to NewsChannel9 that they're working a house fire just outside Benton.

The state champion Jefferson 13-year-old All-Star baseball team advanced to the third round of the Dizzy Dean World Series with a 10-0 defeat of Polk County Tennessee on Saturday in Southaven, Miss.

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