The Walmart in Crossville re-opened at 8am on Sunday (5/5/24) after being shut down Saturday (5/4/24) due to a lightning strike. Walmart posted to Facebook around 7am Saturday that their systems were down and they are not able to open the store. It also impacted their online business and some orders made Saturday morn...

Authorities are looking for a Tennessee man who is suspected of selling fake gold bars to a local pawn shop and other pawn shops in Georgia. He has been identified as 43-year-old Robert Brent Robertson of McDonald, Tennessee. According to reports, Robertson has cheated at least one pawn shop in Crossville out of $1,500...

Country music star Morgan Wallen waived his right to appear at a hearing Friday morning in the now infamous chair throwing incident. Wallen is charged with felony reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after he allegedly threw a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar in April, narrowly missing Metro Police office...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed the Protecting Children from Social Media Act into law. The bipartisan law requires those under age 18 to have parental consent before they can make a social media account. It also allows parents to supervise those accounts. It will be up to companies on how they verify ages and ...

A 68-year-old Crossville woman has lost over $52,000 after falling victim to a computer scam. According to police reports, the victim said on Monday, April 29, 2024 and ad from Pornhub popped on her computer screen and immediately after a message from Microsoft stated that her computer had been hacked and frozen to inc...

Throughout the month of May, the Tennessee Department of Education invites all Tennesseans to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Month, Week, and Day, proclaimed by Governor Bill Lee. Additionally, the department launched the 'Year of Tennessee Teachers' campaign, highlighting teachers for shaping the minds of the over one...

As temperatures warm up, the Tennessee Highway Safety Office is warning that children left in hot cars can suffer heatstroke in minutes. In just 10 minutes, the interior of a vehicle can heat up by 20 degrees and become deadly. Last year, 29 children died in hot cars across the United States. Hot car deaths are prev...

According to WGFX, on April 30 in Nashville during a media session before the Big Orange Caravan, it was announced that Bob Kesling, longtime "Voice of the Vols", has been elected into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame. The announcement was made live on Nashville's 104.5 The Zone (WGFX) by the voice of the Ten...

Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee was closed for the day on Wednesday (5/1/24) as authorities investigated an unverified bomb threat. A student reportedly discovered the threat on the first floor of the Latimer Student Center at about 10 a.m. Around 3pm, the college posted to its Facebook page that authorities had co...

An 18-year-old pizza delivery driver in Tennessee is lucky to be alive after he was shot at multiple times after he accidentally parked in the wrong driveway while making a delivery. It happened Monday night in Ashland City. Caiden Wheeler, who was in his Dominoes uniform and had a pizza delivery bag, had just gotten...

Two Murfreesboro men face a decade or more behind bars after they allegedly shipped meth overseas in boxes of cake mix and the parcels were identified as a "Birthday Gift." According to the Department of Justice, an investigation launched in July 2019 by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Postal In...

A Cumberland County Sheriff's Deputy has recovered a Jeep reported stolen from Bledsoe County. According to reports, on Friday (04/26/2024) Deputy Logan Frady was patrolling in the 900 block of Turkey Blind Road when he observed a cooper colored Jeep Wrangler matching the description of a stolen vehicle out of Bledso...

A missing and endangered person out of Georgetown, Kentucky was found safe in Cumberland County late Saturday night. Shortly after 11pm, Deputy Logan Frady was dispatched to the area of Highway 70 North for a suspicious driver. While attempting to locate the vehicle, Deputy Frady was almost hit head on by a silver Me...

TBI special agents are investigating the circumstances of a fatal officer-involved shooting Saturday morning in Knoxville. The incident occurred at approximately 7:40 a.m. at a home in the 4700 block of Santala Drive, where two officers from the Knoxville Police Department responded to a report of a domestic disturbanc...

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has been notified by the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association of a phone scam currently going on in their name. While it is a renewal period for the association and you may have received a mailing, TSA will NEVER call to solicit funds. If you receive a call here are a couple things to do: ...

A section of I-40 in Cumberland County was heavily congested for several hours Saturday after a large tree fell across both westbound lanes and caused a crash at the 330 mile marker. It happened around 4:45 pm. According to the THP, a Ford Bronco and a semi-truck were slowing to stop for the tree when the tractor-trai...

Statewide WMA regulations were changed during the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission's April meeting to now prohibit the placement of salt products, minerals, and other consumable products on WMAs. Dogs must also be restrained on WMAs unless hunting or training. Additional WMA specific regulations were made and wi...

The Great Smoky Mountains synchronous firefly lottery will open this Friday, April 26, 2024 at 9am Central time and closes on Monday, April 29 at 10:59pm. You can enter at www.recreation.gov. Lottery winners will be announced by Monday, May 6. Lottery applications are $1 and successful applicants will automatically ...

Governor Bill Lee's statewide school voucher bill has died for the year after Tennessee lawmakers could not agree on certain stipulations of the $144 million proposal. The bill was controversial from the start with opponents fearing it would take away from public school funding. Parents of private school students said ...

This week ( Monday, April 22), the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) is kicking off "Slow Down Tennessee," a week-long campaign to help increase awareness and reduce speeding across Tennessee roadways. During this campaign, the THSO is offering yard signs free for public citizens to pick up at designated...