The Niota train depot is the first site in Southeast Tennessee to receive a Civil War trail marker, Mayor Martha Walden said.

A fast-food restaurant here is home to three separate groups, each called The Liars Club, each meeting at a different time and some since the Hardee’s opened more than 15 years ago.

Work has begun here on 2 miles of new 5-foot-wide sidewalks that will serve the public library, hospital, downtown and other areas.

BENTON, Tenn. — News traveled fast last week in Polk County after Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. was found guilty on a lesser charge in a 2006 slaying.

Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. will be sentenced May 7 after being convicted over the weekend of manslaughter and attempted murder.

When three new fire engines are delivered in April to the McMinn County Fire Department, three rural county departments will take the old trucks.

The water is safe, gasoline prices are down and rafting outfitters expect a banner year in 2009 for the upper and lower Ocoee River.

BENTON, Tenn. — 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb on Thursday admitted fault after a judge tossed him out of a courtroom during a trial in Polk County.

A judge tossed 10th Judicial District Attorney Steve Bebb out of the courtroom this morning after the DA confronted a state attorney at the Davis Waldroup murder trial.

The woman who died in what prosecutors say was a rampage by Bradley Davis Waldroup Jr. was shot eight times and slashed repeatedly on the head with a machete, according to testimony Wednesday at his murder trial.