A Hawkins County teen was sentenced to eight years Friday in connection with a fatal 2012 “drugged driving” wreck in which a 17-year-old lost his life.
The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is warning area residents of potential scams after a Southwest Virginia man was recently bilked out of $20,000 by con artists.
A Wednesday morning dispute over barking dogs ended with one man transported to the hospital by ambulance — possibly with a broken jaw — and the arrest of his Kingsport neighbor on a charge of aggravated assault
A man wanted for allegedly attacking and robbing a man at gunpoint during a cocaine deal in Kingsport, and knocking a woman unconscious to steal $6 and pills in a separate incident, has been apprehended after fighting with police along the interstate.
A former correctional officer at the United States Penitentiary in Lee County pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon Thursday to smuggling contraband into the federal prison in exchange for money.
An unemployed Hawkins County man is facing charges after allegedly beating his girlfriend with a snow shovel and putting a knife to her throat, among other things, because she apparently failed to pay his probation fees.
