A Grainger County school board member who also subbed in classrooms was arrested after an alleged inappropriate relationship; state and local investigators, including the TBI, are handling the probe.

At a Feb. 26 awards dinner KCSO honored deputies — including Medal of Valor recipient Matthew Kirchner — for pulling Deputy Dalton Swanger to safety after a June assault.

A Campbell County jury convicted La Follette mother Holly Daugherty of aggravated child abuse in the case of her three‑month‑old twin sons. Sentencing is set for May 26.

TBI says a Jamestown woman faces two aggravated arson counts after a Fentress County house fire investigators say was intentionally set while people were inside.

A Tuesday search-warrant raid in Del Rio led to three arrests and the seizure of meth, firearms and $1,290, officials say.

A multi-agency pursuit in east Knoxville ended with an arrest and a slate of felony and misdemeanor charges, according to arrest records and local reporting.

A corrections officer was stabbed to death at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg as TDOC investigates.

A state report and audit say children in DCS custody were sex-trafficked and used meth while housed in offices and transitional homes.

Cookeville troopers stopped a speeding car on I‑40 in Cumberland County and found meth, crack and marijuana. The driver, described as a convicted violent felon, was arrested on trafficking charges.

A Knox County judge will weigh prosecutors’ request to transfer the case of a 15‑year‑old accused in the October killing of 13‑year‑old Savannah Copeland to adult court. The transfer hearing is set for Wednesday morning.

Knox County has banned all open burning Tuesday, citing dry fuels and forecasted high winds after a run of recent local fires. Officials urge residents to postpone campfires and debris burns.

TBI and local partners seized eight pounds of meth in mid-February and arrested a suspected large-scale distributor, authorities say.

The Dolin family has sued Knox County and the parents of an underage driver, alleging investigators lost files, deleted body‑cam footage and failed to reconstruct a 2022 crash that killed their son.