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Sullivan South’s volleyball team opens play in the TSSAA Class AA tournament Tuesday at Blackman in Murfreesboro on a quest to capture the program’s sixth overall state championship. Wendy Ratliff’s Lady Rebels open at 10:30 a.m. against the Lady Hurricanes of East Hamilton.
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Lady Rebels, Vikings open championship chase today

Tennessee High is playing in its first TSSAA volleyball tournament in 16 years. Sullivan South, meanwhile, is seeking its sixth state championship in its 29th appearance in the tournament.

Today at 12:41 AM
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Lady Falcons top Lady Warriors in four-setter

Abingdon stayed in the hunt for the second spot in the Mountain 7 District volleyball standings with an uneven 25-19, 25-22, 15-25, 25-13 win over Wise Central on Monday.

Yesterday at 11:02 PM
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Hawkins County Criminal court

Back-to-back armed robberies earn Hawkins teen 8 years

Austin Allen Swarthout came to the attention of law enforcement after he apparently was overheard by a witness admitting to the robbery, after which that witness informed authorities.

Yesterday at 7:30 PM
Connie Reasor's former middle school principal Mary Ruth Laster (left) and Connie's mother, Alma Reasor on Alma's front porch.
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featured

'A coward with a gun' — Woman fights to keep daughter's killer in prison

More than two decades after her daughter, Lee County special ed teacher Connie, was slain in New Orleans, Alma Reasor finds herself fighting to keep the man who murdered her only child in prison.

Yesterday at 5:30 PM
Over 500 walks are expected to participate in the Walk to End Alzheimer's at Warriors' Path State Park in Kingsport. Their fundraising goal is $72,000.
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Sunday Stories

Walk to End Alzheimer's set for Oct. 21 at Warriors' Path

Over 500 walkers are expected and their goal is to raise $72,000. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. Then at 10 a.m., a Promise Garden ceremony will be held with forget-me-not flowers.

Yesterday at 4:32 PM
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Sullivan County schools

'Next year's going to be ugly for everybody' because of Tenn. school funding law

BLOUNTVILLE — Putting together school budgets next year is not going to be an easy or pleasant task for Sullivan County, Kingsport and Bristol school systems.

Updated Yesterday at 3:53 PM
Johnson City Press filed photo.
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Gas Prices

AAA: Gas prices fall for fourth-straight week

Tennessee gas prices averaged $2.31 on Sunday, dropping 8 cents during the past week. The biggest weekly discounts were seen in Cleveland (-12 cents), Johnson City (-12 cents) and Chattanooga (-10 cents).

Updated Yesterday at 2:42 PM
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3rd coach in 3 weeks: Lingerfelt hopes to bring calm to Crockett storm

A sea of chaos has tried to capsize David Crockett’s football season for two weeks. And now Nick Lingerfelt — who previously coached at Dobyns-Bennett, and was hired three months ago to be the Pioneers’ head baseball coach — hopes to bring a calm to the storm.

Yesterday at 1:06 PM
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Kingsport Theatre Guild

Musical 'Nanyehi' returns to the Model City

Nancy Ward was an ambassador, a peace negotiator and the last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee. She believed war was not the way between the Cherokee and the European settlers, and wanted all people to live in harmony. Ward lived in what is today Monroe County, Tenn., during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and gave a famous speech in 1781 on Long Island at the Holston River.

Updated Yesterday at 12:39 PM
Doe sneaks a peek at the photographer this summer at the edge of Wise County woodland.
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Outdoors

Virginia game officials release deer disease report

The Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries has received reports of more than 150 deer dying from what is suspected to be cases of hemorrhagic disease in several counties of Southwest Virginia.

Updated Yesterday at 11:27 AM
In recruiting employers to this part of Tennessee, local economic development officials rely heavily on the natural assets of the region like Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport. The park draws visitors from throughout the region and is one of Kingsport's big selling points when it comes to recruiting new residents to the Model City.
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Money

In Northeast Tennessee, tourism and economic development go hand-in-hand

Tourism is a strong industry in Tennessee, one that accounts for $800 million annually in revenues for Northeast Tennessee alone. Two of the top 10 counties in Tennessee in terms of the tourism impact on the local economy are Sullivan and Washington.

Updated Yesterday at 9:43 AM
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Sullivan County schools

BEP 101: A look at Tenn. education funding through eyes of Sullivan school system

BLOUNTVILLE — If Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says he is proposing a 4 percent raise for teachers, the actual funding that gets to Sullivan County Schools would be enough for about 1 percent. So the devil, as the old saying goes, is in the details.

Updated Yesterday at 9:14 AM
Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green, M.D., visits with Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors (NETAR) President Eric Kistner before a NETAR membership meeting. Green’s leadership message included a point that ‘No one will give 100 percent to someone they don’t trust.’
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Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors

Why you put 'we' before 'me'

Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green, a West Point graduate and former Army medic, wrote a book about interviewing the late Iraq leader Saddam Hussein the night of his capture.

Yesterday at 8:30 AM
Gate City's Mac McClung will be playing college basketball for Patrick Ewing at Georgetown, the senior announced Sunday.
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McClung to play for Ewing at Georgetown

Gate City’s star point guard chose the Big East’s Hoyas over 32 other offers, among them Rutgers, Seton Hall, Boston College and ETSU.

Oct 15, 2017 at 7:36 PM
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Fort Henry Mall

Mall owner seeks back rent from Mexican restaurant

According to court documents filed last week the owner of the Fort Henry Mall is seeking $32,000 in unpaid rent from Toro Mexican Grill and to repossess the space in the mall currently used by the White Pines, Tenn.-based restaurant.

Oct 15, 2017 at 5:00 PM