Bloomingdale News

Utility worker electrocuted in Bluff City

Fairview Observer - Wed Nov 18

Investigators say a utility worker in northeastern Tennessee was killed when he was electrocuted and thrown from power pole.

Utility worker electrocuted while working on power line

Http - Wed Nov 18

Local investigators are still puzzling over how a local utility worker was electrocuted and thrown from a utility pole Tuesday morning.

BTES lineman electrocuted on Hickory Tree Road

Http - Tue Nov 17

UPDATE 4:24 p.m.: A Bristol Tennessee Essential Services worker was dead on arrival this morning, according to a report just issued by the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department.

Sullivan Co. votes to change employee health insurance provider

Http - Tue Nov 17

Sullivan County officials decided Monday to change their health insurance provider next year so they can continue to provide the benefit to employees while keeping the burden on taxpayers to a minimum.

Child Rape Arrest

WTVC Chattanooga - Mon Nov 16

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Fugitive division arrested David Blevins, 58, on Monday after receiving indictments from Sullivan County, Tenn.

CNN Money's Ranking of Kingsport is Inaccurate

The Business Journal - Mon Nov 16

So it pains us to have to report that the most positive piece of news regarding the region's economy in recent memory is, in fact, inaccurate.

Herron Wins Straw Poll In East Tennessee

Post Politics - Sat Nov 14

" Sen. Roy Herron decisively won the second Democratic straw poll in the race for Governor on Saturday.

Lucy doesn't make finals for world's 'cutest dog'

TriCities.com - Thu Nov 12

Lucy Super Pound Puppy isn't letting the fact that she may not be the world's "cutest dog" stymie her efforts to help Sullivan County build a new animal shelter.

Paralyzed man trapped 30 hours survives NY crash

WBIR-TV Knoxville - Mon Nov 09

A paralyzed man who was trapped when his car drove off an upstate New York road and plummeted down an embankment is alive to tell the tale.

More charges face woman in Blountville meth lab bust

Http - Sat Nov 07

Authorities have upped the charges on a woman arrested Thursday after police stumbled upon a meth lab in her kitchen.