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Clingmans Dome Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was closed for five hours Monday following a fatal motor vehicle accident. According to park officials, rangers responded to a report of a single-car, motor vehicle accident on Clingmans Dome Road at about 12:30 p.m. on July 15, 2019. The park’s technical Search and Rescue Team, Cherokee Tribal EMS, and Cherokee ...

Officials say the human remains found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park earlier this week have been identified. The Knox Country Regional Forensic Center positively identified the remains as 64-year-old David J. Carver, of Blount County, Tenn., through comparison of medical records. David J. Carver, 64 On Monday, July 8, 2019, an off-trail hiker found Carver’s body in an area ...

Authorities said on Monday that they are investigating unidentified human remains found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. According to a release from park officials on Monday, July 8, 2019, an off-trail hiker found a human body while hiking off Laurel Creek Road and notified authorities. Searchers responded and found the unidentified human remains, which appear to be several months ...

A Louisiana man died Thursday after losing control of his motorcycle and crashing into two other vehicles on Newfound Gap Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Rangers responded to a report of a motorcycle collision on Newfound Gap Road approximately 12 miles north of Cherokee, NC. about noon on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Cherokee Indian Police Department Officers, Cherokee ...

A four-year-old child was seriously injured after being struck by a boat propeller during a boating incident on Douglas Lake Sunday afternoon. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Bill Thomas Wardlow Jr., 44, of Sevierville, was swimming near points 12 and 13 with three children under eight years old at about 3 p.m. on June 30, 2019. The wind ...

Local law enforcement set out before dawn on Tuesday to round up suspected drug dealers in the culmination of a six-month undercover drug operation. A Sevier County Grand Jury last week indicted 51 suspects as a result of a six-month undercover drug operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit, a multi-agency task force Officers from participating agencies gathered in ...

The man who shot two people and then killed himself at Tanger Outlets in Sevierville was a felon prohibited from possessing a handgun and suffered from mental health issues, the investigation by Sevierville Police determined. According to police, 21-year-old Leon Steven Jones, Jr. went to the Tanger Outlet, 1645 Parkway, with his girlfriend to do some shopping on Tuesday, April ...

A man allegedly used a gun in the robbery the Family Dollar store in Kodak on Friday, the second armed robbery of a Winfield Dunn Parkway business in two days. According to the Sevierville Police Department, a man reportedly entered the Family Dollar, located in the Food City shopping center at 2946 Winfield Dunn Parkway in Kodak, about 3:30 p.m. ...

Sevierville police are searching for a man who allegedly robbed a convenience store at gunpoint on Thursday night. Sevierville police officers responded to an armed robbery of Shell Fastop, located at 1855 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Highway 66) in Sevierville, reported just after 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2019. “A store employee stated that a man entered the store brandishing ...

A local man is facing charges of reckless endangerment after he allegedly rode a motorcycle on a Sevierville Greenway and nearly struck pedestrians. Sevierville police officers responded to complaints of a man riding a motorcycle on the West Prong Greenway on Monday, April 22, 2019 at about 1:41 p.m. Witnesses told police that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high ...