07/18/11 The Times-News is publishing a blog about Jennifer Pharr Davis' attempt to break the overall record for a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
07/09/11 About a third of Brittany Fletcher's fifth-graders have no access to the Internet at their homes in Mountain City, Tenn.
07/07/11 The Wellmont CVA Heart Institute and Alpha Natural Resources are taking superior cardiovascular care for Central Appalachia to greater heights with a new center for interventional cardiology at Bristol Regional Medical Center.
07/07/11 Dorothy Swan, librarian at the Old Saybrook Historical Society, died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, July 3 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford. For more than two decades,...
06/28/11 AVOCA -- A pair of Aces were the top cards on Monday night in the opening games for Elizabethton's 8- and 7-year-old All Star teams.
06/11/11 » Church event to benefit children and youth ministries: A community yard and bake sale and carwash is scheduled from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday at Christian Fellowship Baptist Church on Buffalo Gap Highway. Proceeds will benefit the church's children and youth ministries. The sale will feature children's clothing and toys, TVs, a microwave oven, a grill, household items, Coke collectibles and ...
06/03/11 Follow Candus Thomson's attempt to complete all 24 Park Quest stops in 7 straight days.
05/23/11 A man named Gary Short Sr. had been shot to death the previous day, May 20, 1988, on the mountain in the Gladyfork section of town.
05/23/11 Bobby R. Bailey, 75, died Saturday. The family will receive friends 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Kiser-Rose Hill Funeral Home. The funeral service will be order levitra held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pine Grove Free Will Baptist Church.
05/20/11 A seven-year drug investigation recently netted a Sullivan Central High School teacher along with 22 other suspects from Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Michigan.
05/19/11 Federal and local law enforcement called it operation "Street Sweeper" when--a little more than an hour ago--they revealed the results of an almost decade long investigation.
05/19/11 A federal grand jury in East Tennessee has indicted 23 people in a drug trafficking case that prosecutors say also reached into southwest Virginia, Michigan and Florida.
05/18/11 Facing certain death, 34 men in South Carolina and Virginia asked Marie Deans to stay close to them in their final hours and minutes. They were death row inmates.
05/04/11 HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--2011 Team Ex Drinks Announced; Ex Drinks, LLC Adds Pro Skateboarder Andy Macdonald to Its Team of Athletes
05/04/11 The staff for Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith will be hosting more traveling office hours in our region today.
04/30/11 Soldiers from Somerset County came within a whisper of being executed after being captured and imprisoned during the Civil War. They were saved through the efforts of Somerset County Judge Jeremiah S. Black and the mercy of President Abraham Lincoln.
04/28/11 Extra volunteers could scarcely answer the ringing telephones inside the offices of the Mountain Empire chapter of the American Red Cross Thursday afternoon, hours after a series of tornadic super cell thunderstorms tore through the region.
04/28/11 In 82 years of confirming and recording data on tornadoes, the National Weather Service office in Morristown has documented 27 of the wind weather events in that time, including one earlier this month in Jonesborough.
04/27/11 David Sherfinski Examiner Staff Writer Follow Him @dsherfinski A janitor who lost his job at a Virginia armory when it closed in January 2010 was still being paid for nearly a year because he was filing falsely approved timesheets that continued to processed, a state audit shows. The employee of the National Guard Armory in Big Stone Gap in southwest Virginia not only received more ...
03/27/11 John W. Warner said famed actress was his partner in "the foundation for 30 years of public service in the U.S. Senate." | 
