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One-vehicle accident on the Old Asheville Highway
The Tennessee Highway Patrol, Cocke County Sheriff's Department and the Del Rio Volunteer Fire Department responded to a one-vehicle accident on the Old Asheville Highway near its intersection with Highway 107.
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Local Guy Makes Good- And Gives Back to the Community
I'd like to tell you all about an opportunity that has come our way due to the efforts of a man that grew up in our community.
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Customer Appreciation and Veterans Day Celebration at Del Rio
The Del Rio Post Office will host a Customer Appreciation and Veterans Day Celebration Saturday, Nov.
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Ruritan Club Council Celebrates 50 Years
Sun Photo by Bill Jones Ruritan National President Wayne Outlaw, standing, speaks during a Tuesday evening dinner honoring the Greene County Council of Ruritan Clubs for 50 years of service to the community.
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Gov. Bredesen, legislators announce $51,990 for Del Rio After School programs
Gov. Phil Bredesen and state Rep. Eddie Yokley Thursday announced $51,990 in new Lottery for Education After School Programs grants for Del Rio Elementary in Cocke County Schools.
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Schoolboard book issue "null and void"
The temperature inside the Del Rio Elemetary School library was cold Friday evening where Cocke County Board of Education members convened for their October meeting, but a discussion regarding a proposed author ...
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Feds pleased with probe
Not counting the low-scale wars that raged in Cocke County in the 1920s as moonshiners battled it out with revenuers, the federal government has now launched three massive efforts to "clean up" a region that's ...
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Old Timey Night kicks off Harvest Festival weekend
Time turned back Friday night when two Civil War generals held an audience of over 300 enthralled at the Cocke County Courthouse as Newport kicked off its annual Harvest Street Festival weekend.
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Cocke County gambling den razed
A cockfighting pit in East Tennessee has been razed to make way for homes. A police raid of the pit in 2005 began public knowledge of Operation Rose Thorn - a federal and state investigation into corruption in ...
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Strategy, stealth key for FBI in Cocke County investigative work
Clay Owen Retired FBI agent Thomas Farrow, who spearheaded the Rose Thorn investigation, talks about the experience, while standing at the gate of the narrow driveway leading into the Del Rio cockfighting pit.
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Cocke County libraries represented at regional trustee workshop
Photo submitted Cocke County's libraries were well represented last Thursday at the annual trustees workshop in Dandridge.
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Del Rio man dies in wreck |
A 39-year-old Del Rio man died Tuesday in a single-vehicle crash on Big Creek Road in the Hartford community, according to the Cocke County Sheriff's Office.
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CLB Oks Litigation tax of $50
Citizens who find themselves in civil or criminal court will now have to pay a little extra as the Cocke County Legislative Body approved a $40 increase in the county's litigation tax at its monthly meeting on ...
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Gobbling up gasoline
Hurricane Ike caught Newport by surprise on Friday and, though more than a thousand miles away, it was blowing gasoline prices higher in our hometown.
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Shults elected school board chair, budgets sent to finance committee
The Cocke County Board of Education elected Randy Shults chair and Dr. Ken Johnson chair pro-tem for 2008-09 Thursday evening.
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Del Rio Days set for Sept. 20-21
Del Rio Days, sponsored by Brushy Mountain Bear Hunters Club, is set for Sept. 20-21 at the Jones Nature Center, located across Highway 107 from Del Rio School.
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DA files amended complaint against Midnight Rodeo
Fourth Judicial District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn has filed an amended complaint in seeking to padlock the Midnight Rodeo.
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Del Rio Community Association receives $1,000 grant
Glenn Willis, left, Del Rio Volunteer Fire Department Chief, accepted a check for $1,000 from State Representative Eddie Yokley, right, on Tuesday afternoon.
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State briefs: Aug. 26
Firefighters are continuing to battle a forest fire in Cocke County that's burned more than 1,600 acres.
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Dry winds and groundhogs
Late August has turned to extremely dry, as the sun over our hometown bakes to brown once green fields and dries forests for fire fodder with no rain in sight.
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