Tag Archives: Sevier County

The King’s Academy in Seymour invites the public to attend its free solar eclipse viewing event, featuring kid’s activities, music, special guests, and free eclipse glasses for the first 1,000 people to arrive. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) endorsed The King’s Academy campus as the only Official NASA Event Site in the East Tennessee area still open to ...

UPDATE JULY 31, 2017 North Carolina’s Henderson County Sheriff’s Office announced late Sunday, July 30, 2017 that searchers found the remains of Thomas Bryson in a corn field off Glenn Bridge Road in Arden, N.C. (Buncombe County). The cause of death was not yet determined but Henderson County Sheriff Charlie McDonald said Stroupe will likely face a murder charge in ...

Sevier County 4-H member, Tessa Herndon took part in the 61st annual Harding University National Leadership Forum early this summer. The event drew nearly 200 high school students from nine states to the Harding University campus in Searcy, Ark. This leadership development program brings students together for a week of labs, lectures and open discussion sessions that strengthen leadership and ...

Authorities confirmed that a child died in a drowning accident at Douglas Lake on Saturday. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said that a 911 call was received at about 6:15 p.m. on July 29, 2017, reporting that a child was missing at the TVA swimming area near Douglas Dam. The 3-year-old girl from Alabama was visiting the lake with her ...

The driver of a pickup had allegedly been drinking when he crossed the yellow line on Asheville Highway in Sevier County late Wednesday night and triggered a multi-vehicle accident that left a motorcyclist dead. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says a Dodge pickup driven by 27-year-old Justin Burdette, of Knoxville, was traveling eastbound on Asheville Highway near the intersection of King ...

Authorities cracked down on Sevier County sex trafficking with an undercover sting that resulted in the arrest of eight people. Investigators with the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit partnered with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an undercover operation focused on prostitution. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, the detectives and agents set up at a local ...

Local law enforcement officers raided a Sevierville residence Thursday morning, finding cash, drugs and paraphernalia they say indicate drugs were being sold from the home. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said that a search warrant was obtained for a residence located at 1196 Allensville Road in Sevierville after an undercover operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit. Members of ...

Law enforcement tracked down and arrested a man who allegedly burglarized a Cosby convenience store over the weekend. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office said an employee at Jack’s Market, 5342 East Parkway in Cosby, showed up Sunday morning, July 9, 2017, to open the convenience store and found that the store had been burglarized. Detectives reviewed video from the surveillance ...

Authorities searched a residence in the Eagle Den Subdivision of Sevier County on Saturday after two drug overdoses occurred there, reportedly finding that drugs were being packaged and sold and counterfeit money made at the home. Sevier County Sheriff’s officers and EMS personnel responded to two separate overdose calls at a home located at 806 Carter Street in Seymour on ...

Clerks at three convenience stores in Sevier County were cited for selling beer to a minor on Tuesday. Responding to complaints of underage alcohol sales in the Seymour area, the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit conducted an undercover operation on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. In three of eleven establishments tested by officers, the clerk sold beer to an ...