The Sevierville Police Department says a man was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing the street Tuesday night. Witnesses told police that a GMC SUV hit 59-year old Alex Woloch, of Sevierville, as he was crossing the southbound lanes of the Parkway between the two Walmart entrance/exit roads about 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 3, 2017. A 16-year-old was ...

A Sevier County corrections officer, an inmate and the inmate’s mother have been arrested for allegedly taking part in a smuggling scheme to get narcotics to an inmate inside the jail. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals says that deputies were acting on a tip that narcotics were going to be smuggled to an inmate inside the Sevier County Jail annex ...

Checks from the Gatlinburg Relief Fund will soon go out to employees of businesses destroyed, and estates of the people whose lives were lost, due to the wildfires in November. The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced today that it will begin distribution of Gatlinburg Relief Fund checks during the first week of January 2017. About $1.4 million has reportedly ...

A search is underway for a plane that left Jacksonville on Monday bound for the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport and disappeared over the Smoky Mountains. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at about 7:35 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 after a family member reported the plane did not arrive as expected. The ...

Mt. Ton of Fun Playground at City Park is closing in January as work begins on a new inclusive playground. The City of Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation announced that Mt. Ton of Fun Playground would close Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 and remain closed until until the inclusive playground is completed. The city partnered with Project Sevier to build ...

Sevierville police are searching for a man who fled the scene of an auto accident Tuesday, leaving behind loaded guns and drugs in the crashed car. A motorist notified police of a single vehicle accident on Old Knoxville Highway at the intersection with Franklin Drive at about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, reporting that he saw a man ...

Sevier County businesses and their employees impacted by the recent wildfires can begin applying for grants from the Gatlinburg Relief Fund on Tuesday. The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation first announced it was establishing the fund Dec. 1, just days after wildfires burned through the area, to directly benefit families impacted by the wildfires. SmartBank is managing the fund and ...

Four inmates escaped from the Jefferson County Work House early this morning and two are suspects in an attempted armed robbery of a convenience store in Sevierville. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, four inmates identified as 22-year-old Jimmy Dave Lee Moore, Richard Coty Lorenz, 26, Adam Quinn Lethco, 24, and Matthew Robert Porter, 27, assaulted deputies and escaped ...

The new crime museum Alcatraz East in Pigeon Forge opens to the public on Friday and we had a sneak peak at the fascinating exhibits. Local officials and special guests celebrated the new crime museum with a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday evening. Pigeon Forge Mayor David Wear joined museum owner, John Morgan, and Chief Operating Officer Janine ...

Authorities arrested two people on Wednesday for allegedly starting the wildfire that swept through Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, killing 14 people. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said at a press conference held Dec. 7, 2016 at the Sevier County Courthouse that a joint investigation by the TBI; National Park Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and ...