Author Archives: Ronni Chase

(WVLT/Peg Broadcasting News) The University of Tennessee has hired Danny White as Athletic Director to replace the Phillip Fulmer who announced his plans to retire on the heels of the firing of Head C...

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department was dispatched to the Plateau Road Exxon early Monday morning in reference to a burglar alarm at the convenience store. The front window had apparently been ...

A routine traffic stop Wednesday morning (1/20/2021) led to the arrest of two wanted suspects. According to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department, a vehicle driven by 30-year-old Brian Keith Prin...

(TN Dept. Of Health) The total COVID-19 case count for Tennessee is 694,291 as of Wednesday, January 20, 2021 (up 4,483 from Tuesday) including 8,556 deaths (up 86), 2,653 current hospitalizations (do...

Due to a recent increase in self-reported COVID-19 cases on the Oak Ridge Branch Campus of Roane State, the Coffey-McNally Building will be closed temporarily as a precautionary measure. The building ...

(TWRA) After a record-low year of eight boating-fatalities in 2019, the most boating-related fatalities in 37 years with 32 occurred on Tennessee waters in 2020, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Re...

The Cumberland County Commission met in regular session Tuesday by electronic means. Resolutions approved included the acceptance of the 2021 Cumberland County Road List. The list includes 1,752 roads...

Governor Bill Lee has issued an Executive Order to extend the restrictions pertaining to TSSAA sporting events attendance. Large scale attendance by spectators and students will continue to be banned ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee wants to give a pay raise to every teacher in Tennessee and is proposing to increase the salary component of the funding formula by 4%. In his address to the General Assemb...

Cumberland County's death toll rose to 73 on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Positive cases went up by 21 to 5,421. Hospitalizations are 111. Active cases fell by 81 to 548. Putnam County reports 140 COVID...