Tag Archives: Sevierville

MAPCO, the convenience store chain with nearly 340 stores throughout the Southeastern region of the United States, is growing in Tennessee and looking for team members to join the MAPCO family at its first store in Sevierville. The new 5,000+ square foot MAPCO store is located at 730 Winfield Dunn Parkway and set to open in early April. The company is actively hiring part-time, ...

Reports of an active shooter at the Sevierville Walmart that resulted in mass panic among shoppers and response from multiple law enforcement agencies were actually a dispute between customers in which multiple guns were displayed, but no shots fired. The Sevierville Walmart was busy with holiday shoppers Wednesday afternoon and the parking lot nearly full of vehicles when reports of ...

A reported armed robbery in Sevierville on Friday evening prompted a pursuit by police officers and ended with one suspect dead, two other suspects shot and in custody, and one officer injured. According to the Sevierville Police Department, they received a 911 call at about 8:55 p.m. on December 18, 2020 from a man who reported that two men and ...

Law enforcement arrested four people in connection with vandalism of abortion and campaign signs at two different Sevier County locations this weekend. Officers from the Sevierville Police Department charged four persons with felony vandalism after investigating two incidents of sign vandalism on Sunday, October 25, 2020. SPD Officer Jacob Mattern responded to the Sevier County Election Commission, located at 1145 ...

The Walmart Supercenter in Sevierville announced suddenly on Wednesday that the store would close for an extended cleaning by a third-party contractor as part of the store’s efforts to reduce spread of the coronavirus. “As an essential business and member of the Sevierville community, we understand the role we play in providing our customers with food, medicine and other essential ...

East Tennessee homeowners and renters may qualify for the HomeSource Covid-19 Housing Assistance Program to pay mortgage, rent and utility bills through a new grant made possible by the Cares Act. Through a grant from the State of Tennessee utilizing federal money allocated to the state from the Cares Act, HomeSource east tennessee is offering assistance to homeowners and renters ...

A man wanted in connection with the death of his mother and assault of his grandmother in Sevierville has been arrested in Michigan after a two-day manhunt. According to Chief Deputy Michael R. Hodges, Jr. of the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, 30-year-old Josh Matthew Carr was located and arrested in Michigan by the Michigan State Police at about 7 p.m. ...

Authorities arrested a man Friday morning after he allegedly kidnapped a woman in Pigeon Forge. Officers from the Sevierville Police Department responded to a 911 call about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2020 from a woman who stated that a man got into got into her car uninvited in Pigeon Forge, threatened her with a knife and told her to ...

Two people are in custody in connection with a woman’s body found near a rural Sevier County church on Thursday morning. According to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, the body found August 6, 2020 has been identified as 32-year-old Marissa R. Sutton of 1010 Indian Gap Circle in Sevierville. Investigators believe Sutton died of a drug overdose, but they are ...

One person was killed and three people injured in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 40 near exit 407 Saturday that closed the highway down for hours. Officers from the Sevierville Police Department responded to a multi-vehicle crash on I-40 East near exit 407 at about 6:40 p.m. on August 1, 2020. According to SPD Crash Reconstruction Officer Phillip West, the ...