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The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation has awarded scholarships to four seniors from Gatlinburg Pittman High School. Kelly Champagne, Sterling Fisher, Jordan Daniels and Mikayla Huskey, graduating seniors from Gatlinburg Pittman High School, have each received a $500 scholarship from the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Funding for the scholarships is provided through various fundraisers throughout the year. The Gatlinburg ...

Authorities allege a 17-year-old boy brandished a stolen handgun during the attempted armed robbery of a Sevierville convenience store on Friday. Personnel from Carol’s Corner Market & Grill, located at 2297 Old Newport Highway in Sevierville, called the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office just after 4 p.m. on May 20, 2016 to report an attempted armed robbery. A while male wearing ...

The Gatlinburg Police and Fire Departments are partnering with the Tennessee Dangerous Drugs Task Force to present a workshop on how to protect private and rental properties from becoming hazardous drug labs. Topics that will be covered include; how to identify a meth lab operation, the process for the breakdown and destruction of clandestine labs and the decontamination process. Trained ...

DNA results show a bear euthanized by Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff was not responsible for the bear attack near Spence Field Backcountry Shelter. Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials received results of DNA analyses comparing samples from bears found near the Spence Field Backcountry Shelter area where a bear attack occurred on May 10, 2016 involving a 49-year ...

UPDATED Friday, May 20, 2016 The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that the body found at a cell tower off Newport Highway is that of Jennifer Holmes. The medical examiner has yet to determine the cause and manner of death and the case is still under investigation. Law enforcement officers searching for a woman missing since February found human ...

Local law enforcement officers launched a round up early yesterday morning after a six-month undercover sting dubbed Operation Spring Fever resulted in 73 indictments by a Sevier County Grand Jury. The Sevier County Street Crimes Unit, a special task force made up of officers from the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, and the police departments of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, ...

A Sevierville man has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly supplying the drug Fentanyl to a man that died of an overdose. On February 12, 2016, officers from the Sevierville Police Department responded to a call of an unconscious man, later identified as 22-year-old Mohammed Hafeez, at 421 Club Drive in Sevierville. Sevier County Ambulance Service transported Hafeez to ...

A former Sevier County man faces murder charges in the death of his girlfriend, who was found dead her Seymour home in 2014. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office says Nicholas D. Taylor, 68, has been arrested in Butler County, Ohio for the murder of 72-year-old Susan K. Kokenge. Taylor and Kokenge were in a relationship and lived together at a ...

An agent from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will conduct a presentation in Pigeon Forge on the growing problem of human trafficking in Tennessee and how to spot the warning signs. Please join the Smoky Mountain Human Resources Association on Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 8 a.m. to hear a presentation by Special Agent Richard Stout of the Tennessee Bureau ...

After more than a week in the hands of her abductor, 9-year-old Carlie Trent has been rescued by two search volunteers in a remote area on Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation cancelled the AMBER Alert for Carlie after she was found safe and her uncle Gary Simpson was captured on Thursday, May 12, 2016 in ...