Washington County News

Since September, controversy has been brewing in Washington County over two quarries located on the outskirts of Fayetteville's western city limits.

Johnson City Police cracked down on several drunk drivers and habitual motor offenders this weekend.

James Robert Couch, 37, of 133 Lovegrove Lane, Telford, died Friday from injuries received while doing repair work on a bus in Gray.

This July 27th will be a year since a lone gunman walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville killing 2 people and injuring 7. With church violence on the rise in recent years many area churches realize they are without a security plan.

Authorities have found dynamite as well as a mobile meth lab at 560 Tavern Hill Road just outside of Jonesborough.

People who live in Greeneville's Meadowlark Subdivision say white supremacists are singling them out.

On April 22nd, Washington County Tennessee Sheriff's deputies filed a criminal summons for simple assault against John Henson.

Sullivan Co., Tenn. - The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency scoured the scene of a capsized boat on Boone Lake Friday night.

Deputies rescued a woman and child kidnapped at gunpoint, but the man accused of the crime faces even more legal trouble after an unexpected discovery.

Former Carter County Sheriff John Henson will spend six months on probation after a judge found him guilty of assaulting a woman at a laundromat on Watauga Road in Johnson City.

Last month, Tennessee's oldest town celebrated the near-completion of Veterans Park.

Investigators with the Johnson City Police Department on Thursday charged Lynda Wooley, 45, of 1108 W. Summer St., Apt B-10, Greeneville, with charges of theft over $1,000. "The arrest came as the result of an investigation into several thousand dollars worth of voided sales at a Johnson City Roadrunner Store where Wooley was employed," a JCPD news ...

Agricultural equipment maker Bush Hog has agreed to a deal which will keep a northeast Tennessee plant open.

Tennessee's oldest town will allow memorial bricks for Confederate soldiers to be placed in a park.

For years, West Lawn Cemetery has remained neglected. The cemetery, which is located on Lowell Street in Johnson City, is not privately owned, so it relies on support from the community, but that support has faded.

Frustration and disappointment that have arisen out of the town of Jonesborough's decision to not allow bricks honoring Confederate soldiers to be placed in the Veterans Memorial Park have spread beyond the town limits.

Police are looking for anyone who may have been victimized by a man selling baked goods at local businesses.

A Washington County, Tennessee, judge reduced a suspected murderer's bond Monday after learning some of the state's witnesses changed their stories.

Johnson City Police say a man accused of raping a female on the west end of Johnson City will appear in court today.

A massive fire rips through a two-story home in Washington County, Tennessee Sunday night, causing some concern for shoppers at a Tri-Cities Wal-Mart. The fire broke out around 7:30 Sunday evening at a home on McKinley Road.