A teen girl from Tennessee remains missing more than two weeks after being abducted by her former teacher and investigators say they could be anywhere, even Mexico. Story updated to include information released Friday, March 31, 2017. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation held a press conference on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 with an update on the search for 15-year-old Elizabeth ...

A man who attempted to rob a Marathon Gas Speedway Market in Seymour on Wednesday night has been arrested after the store owner detained him until police could arrive. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting a robbery at the Marathon Gas Speedway Market, 626 Maryville Highway, just after 8 p.m. on March 22, 2017. Upon ...

Local authorities have arrested 16 more suspected drug dealers in connection with the March Madness undercover operation in Sevier County. Officers from Sevier County Sheriff’s Office; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms; Homeland Security; US Marshals Service; Tenn. Dept. of Corrections; and the police departments of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg began rounding up the alleged drug dealers on March ...

Elizabeth Thomas, a missing 15-year-old girl from Maury County, Tenn., is believed to be in the custody of a teacher that was fired and now faces charges for sexual contact with a minor and aggravated kidnapping. This story is updated to include information released through Tuesday, March 21, 2017. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Maury County Sheriff’s Department issued ...

Workshops will be offered and more than sixty exhibitors will be on hand at The Log & Timber Home Show in Sevierville this month. Exhibitors at the show will include log and timber frame homebuilders and architects; manufacturers of building supplies, furniture and décor; and those specializing in log home maintenance and restoration products. They will be on hand to ...

The Pigeon Forge Police Department is searching for two missing 16-year-old girls who were last seen about 8 a.m. on Thursday, March 9, 2017 leaving the Pigeon Forge High School. Cassie Fitch is described as 5’02” tall and weighing 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink and purple hoody, purple glasses, ...

Four suspects in ski masks were caught on a security camera during a home invasion robbery last month and authorities are asking the public for help in identifying them or their vehicle. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, officers were dispatched just before 5 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2017 to a reported home invasion robbery at an apartment located ...

Authorities began rounding up suspected drug dealers this morning in the culmination of a 9-month undercover drug investigation dubbed March Madness. A Sevier County Grand Jury indicted 79 people last week as a result of the March Madness undercover investigation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit and agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Officers from Sevier County Sheriff’s ...

A former Gatlinburg police officer is facing misconduct and drug charges after investigators say he distributed drugs while on duty with the department and alerted other drug traffickers to law enforcement activities. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, its special agents partnered with the 4th Judicial District Drug Task Force, Gatlinburg Police Department and Sevier County Sheriff’s Office in ...

A new dinner theater show that tells the story of Dolly Parton’s family will open this spring in the former Lumberjack Adventure theatre on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge. The musical theater production with its high–flying acrobats and lumberjack competitions at Lumberjack Adventure will not be returning for the 2017 season as show owners announced today that the theater will ...