Author Archives: Ronni Chase

Police say a 7-year-old boy in Morgan County was fatally hit by a car Thursday and his father has been charged with Vehicular Homicide. Forty-year-old Christopher E. Hawkins has been booked into the M...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation reports that "progress on the US 127 bridge over Clear Creek project has recently focused on things like stream mitigation work, installing stabilization mea...

The Roane County Dispatch received several calls Saturday about a loud, rattling explosion in the area of Clymersville Road. The source of the explosion was a camper fire and authorities said it posed...

The Rockwood Police Department reported Saturday afternoon that a large brush fire had closed Black Hollow Road. Fire crews are on the scene, working to contain and extinguish the fire. A burn ban is ...

An investigation by the TBI and Rockwood Police Department has resulted in the arrest of a Rockwood man in connection to the shooting of his ex-wife at a residence along North Trinity Avenue. The vict...

Thirteenth Judicial District Attorney General Bryant C. Dunaway reports that his office is declining prosecution in the December 2025 shooting death of an MTSU professor. In the early morning hours of...

Vanderbilt students were ordered to shelter in place late Thursday night (4/2/2026) due to a shooting nearby at Centennial Park in Nashville. A 40-year-old man was shot during an altercation with anot...

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office notified media Friday morning (4/3/2026) that missing person 30-year-old Mathew Tyler Whitehead has been found deceased. Mr. Whitehead was reportedly last seen on th...

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office reported Thursday afternoon (4/3/2026) that 54-year-old Mark Allen Cobb has been found safe. Mr. Cobb had been missing since the evening of March 29th (2026) whe...

On Wednesday afternoon, April 1st, a flight crew with the Tennessee Army National Guard's 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion rescued a park visitor suffering from cardiac arrest in the Great Smoky M...