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The driver of a pickup had allegedly been drinking when he crossed the yellow line on Asheville Highway in Sevier County late Wednesday night and triggered a multi-vehicle accident that left a motorcyclist dead. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says a Dodge pickup driven by 27-year-old Justin Burdette, of Knoxville, was traveling eastbound on Asheville Highway near the intersection of King ...

Mountain Tough Recovery Team Executive Director Janice Hendrix has stepped down effective immediately from her role with the Gatlinburg-based program. The Board of Directors appointed Jeff Conyers to serve as the Interim Executive Director while the search for a replacement is underway. Conyers currently serves on the Mountain Tough Recovery Team Board of Directors. Mountain Tough focuses on a three-pronged ...

A child fell from the Wave Rider attraction at The Island in Pigeon Forge on Saturday and the company says it will now remove the ride altogether. An 8-year-old girl was transported to University of Tennessee Medical Center just after 5 p.m. on July 15, 2017 after reportedly slipping through a door that opened while the surf-themed Wave Rider was ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are reminding visitors that Clingmans Dome Road will be closed to all access beginning at 11 p.m. on Saturday, August 19 through the evening of Monday, August 21, 2017 for a special ticketed event viewing the Great American Eclipse. No overnight parking will be allowed at Clingmans Dome Parking Area or pull-offs, parking areas, ...

Authorities cracked down on Sevier County sex trafficking with an undercover sting that resulted in the arrest of eight people. Investigators with the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit partnered with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an undercover operation focused on prostitution. According to Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals, the detectives and agents set up at a local ...

A man suffered a medical emergency and died while hiking Alum Cave Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday. Park Rangers responded to a report of man in cardiac distress on Alum Cave Trail just before 10 a.m. on July 15, 2017. A hiker identified as 47-year-old Phillip Basset Davenport, from Nashville, was hiking down the Alum ...

Local law enforcement officers raided a Sevierville residence Thursday morning, finding cash, drugs and paraphernalia they say indicate drugs were being sold from the home. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said that a search warrant was obtained for a residence located at 1196 Allensville Road in Sevierville after an undercover operation by the Sevier County Street Crimes Unit. Members of ...

Law enforcement tracked down and arrested a man who allegedly burglarized a Cosby convenience store over the weekend. The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office said an employee at Jack’s Market, 5342 East Parkway in Cosby, showed up Sunday morning, July 9, 2017, to open the convenience store and found that the store had been burglarized. Detectives reviewed video from the surveillance ...

Authorities searched a residence in the Eagle Den Subdivision of Sevier County on Saturday after two drug overdoses occurred there, reportedly finding that drugs were being packaged and sold and counterfeit money made at the home. Sevier County Sheriff’s officers and EMS personnel responded to two separate overdose calls at a home located at 806 Carter Street in Seymour on ...

Clerks at three convenience stores in Sevier County were cited for selling beer to a minor on Tuesday. Responding to complaints of underage alcohol sales in the Seymour area, the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit conducted an undercover operation on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. In three of eleven establishments tested by officers, the clerk sold beer to an ...