The Niota train depot is the first site in Southeast Tennessee to receive a Civil War trail marker, Mayor Martha Walden said.
A fast-food restaurant here is home to three separate groups, each called The Liars Club, each meeting at a different time and some since the Hardee’s opened more than 15 years ago.
Work has begun here on 2 miles of new 5-foot-wide sidewalks that will serve the public library, hospital, downtown and other areas.
BENTON, Tenn. — News traveled fast last week in Polk County after Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. was found guilty on a lesser charge in a 2006 slaying.
Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. will be sentenced May 7 after being convicted over the weekend of manslaughter and attempted murder.
The water is safe, gasoline prices are down and rafting outfitters expect a banner year in 2009 for the upper and lower Ocoee River.
When three new fire engines are delivered in April to the McMinn County Fire Department, three rural county departments will take the old trucks.
BENTON, Tenn. — 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb on Thursday admitted fault after a judge tossed him out of a courtroom during a trial in Polk County.
A judge tossed 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb out of the courtroom this morning after the DA confronted a state attorney at the Davis Waldroup murder trial.
The woman who died in what prosecutors say was a rampage by Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. was shot eight times and slashed repeatedly on the head with a machete, according to testimony Wednesday at his murder trial.
With gas prices down and federal stimulus money on the way, it looks like it could be a bright summer season for tourist destinations in the Ocoee area.
All 911 calls in McMinn County go to a central center, but then fire and police calls for the towns of Athens and Etowah are routed again to their individual dispatch systems.
The granddaughter of one of Meigs County’s most infamous women has given the Meigs County Historical Museum a quilt that her grandmother stitched in prison.
It’s been 15 months since McMinn County sold Woods Memorial Hospital to a doctors’ consortium for $4 million.
A U.S. Forest Service official said she hopes the public will agree to closing the 39-mile Upper Tellico off-road trail system off Tellico River Road in Monroe County.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Motorists in many cities may notice that traffic signal lights are becoming brighter as cities swap out incandescent bulbs for LEDs.
A McMinn County man has been charged with first-degree murder in the Wednesday shooting of Monroe County resident Renee Roissier Miller.
A McMinn County man has been charged with first degree murder in the shooting death Wednesday night of Monroe County resident Renee Roissier Miller.
Cherokee National Forest rangers will set 3,000 acres on fire in Polk County’s Ocoee Ranger District over the next few days.
Police in two states are on the watch for a Monroe County man who eluded pursuit through two counties, then crashed his car and escaped once he got over the Georgia line.
Police in two states are on the watch for a Monroe County man who eluded pursuit through three counties, then crashed his car and escaped once he got over the Georgia line.
The latest project in the cleanup of the Copper Basin is a waterline to divert clean water in a creek so that it doesn’t pick up mining pollutants before it flows into the Ocoee River.
State Sen. Dewayne Bunch, R-Cleveland, told McMinn County commissioners last week he has filed a bill in the General Assembly to exempt the county from a law setting standards for the position of road superintendent.
Nearly every year Meigs County Sheriff Walter Hickman asks for additional funds for his department. But early every year his requested amount gets drastically cut by the County Commission.
Tired of property damage and complaints from owners, Athens City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to ban skateboarding in a 12-square-block area downtown.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Felony murder charges have been filed against two men accused in the Jan. 29 shooting death of Athens business man Jeff Beene.
Prosecutors seeking murder indictments against two men in the shooting death of Athens businessman Jeff Beene will present evidence to a McMinn County grand jury today.
A Niota City Commission member said she didn’t intend to violate the state’s open meetings law in the firing of the city’s assistant police chief.
ATHENS, Tenn. — A recent security drill at the McMinn County Courthouse pointed out some problems with the warning system, including panic buttons that did not work.
Jeff Beene didn’t know as he held a gun on a burglar in his Athens business that the man’s partner was sneaking up from behind, ready to grab him.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Another man than one named earlier Friday now is being called the accomplice in the Jan. 29 fatal shooting of businessman Jeff Beene.
Meigs County jail escapee Daniel Lankey has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Athens businessman Jeff Beene, McMinn County Sheriff Steve Frisbie said in a news conference this morning.
A Meigs County Jail escapee who was recaptured just this week has been charged with fatally shooting Athens businessman Jeffery Beene during a Jan. 29 burglary.
Athens City Council members on Wednesday voted 3-1 to appoint Shane Jackson to the vacant seat on the council.
More than five years after Mitchell Delashmitt, 35, was charged with raping and killing his 14-month-old daughter, a trial date of Sept. 1 was set during a hearing Monday.
Gun stores doing a booming business
Post-election sales rush hasn’t slowed, owners say
Rural gun stores seem to have two things in common these days: Business is up, and restocking is a challenge.
Authorities on Friday released the name of a man whose body was found in the burned remains of a hay barn on Thursday afternoon
Bill Dyer was a battalion chief at the Oak Ridge Fire Department when he considered applying for the Athens chief’s position that came open when Bob Miller retired.
Authorities this afternoon released the identity of a man whose body was found in the burned remains of a hay barn on Thursday.
ATHENS, Tenn. — A clinic for area veterans should open in McMinn County within a year, federal officials said this week.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Six people have applied for the seat on the Athens City Council seat left vacant when Shannon Alvey resigned.
A Texas man was killed and his wife injured early Sunday morning when a large Oak tree fell on their trailer camper at an Athens campground.
ATHENS, Tenn. — A hearing next week in the Mitchell Delashmitt murder case could lead to a trial by summer, according to a McMinn County prosecutor.
ATHENS, Tenn. — An Athens businessman shot in a midnight Thursday burglary at one of his plants has died.
DECATUR, Tenn. — Meigs County Schools has received a $25,000 AT&T grant to help reduce the county’s high-school dropout rate.
A new display at the Meigs County Museum includes a mural of downtown Decatur in the 1930s and a trunk with medical equipment used by a doctor who practiced in a building depicted in the mural.
An Athens business owner who called police early today to say he was holding a burglar at gunpoint was shot after circumstances apparently turned around.
Wilderness training
Tennessee: Course instructs first responders in back-country emergencies
The instructor for the wilderness first-responder class at Lee University said it is perfectly located geographically.
Athens has launched a program to help provide residents with relief from the high cost of prescription drugs.
ATHENS, Tenn. — Mayfield Dairy Farms announced today that it does not use peanut butter or peanut butter paste from Peanut Butter Corp. of America in its products.
