Man named Tupac Shakur facing probation violation

The Johnson City Cardinals celebrate winning the 2019 Appalachian League championship in Burlington, North Carolina.

MLB proposal threatens Appalachian League's future

Vote on Jonesborough school plan delayed for 10 days

The Johnson City Police Department officially opened its $1.4 million multi-use facility, which includes a 60-person classroom, conference room, administrative offices, a file room, a large storage area, and a small kitchen, on Thursday, Oct. 17m, 2019.

Johnson City Police Department opens $1.4 million multi-use facility at training grounds

Fall colors in Nov. of 2016 at the VA. Photo by Joe Grable

Fall colors expected to peak in early November, but likely won't be as vibrant

Miller wasn't the only hard at work Friday, as John David Foskey was also getting some use out of the school's new laptops. Photo: Jonathan Roberts/Johnson City Press

Jeremiah School hosting info session for parents of teens with disabilities

Left to right, Mallorie Hatcher, Jessica Fox, Michelle Gross and Gross's daughter Asher. Fox holds a picture of her daughter Claire. The three local mothers are concerned about the impact of Gov. Bill Lee's block grant proposal.

Parents of kids with medical needs say state's Medicaid proposal is scary

A 14-year-old pitbull mix from Morristown was selected to be in the Walkin’ Pets 2020 calendar. Owner Brooke Herman said Tucker James died in February, one month after his winning photo was taken.

Morristown dog posthumously featured on calendar

Washington County Schools

Daniel Boone JROTC instructor teaches leadership after decades in uniform

Michael H. Gardner, a Boones Creek area native and Daniel Boone High School graduate, works as a Marine Corps JROTC instructor at the high school he attended before embarking on his military career.

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Ballad Health

Ballad Health one of two systems participating in federal study of COPAs

Ballad Health will be one of two health systems that will participate in a years-long study by the Federal Trade Commission on the impact of certificates of public advantage, also called COPAs, on the quality, access, price and innovation of Today at 10:00 PM

Science Hill’s Tori Sparks, left, battles for control with Knox West’s Elizabeth Shuler

High school soccer

Lady Hilltoppers thump West

Science Hill didn’t take chances and didn’t waste time.

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Hampton High School students working on a project to design a Carter County Landfill convenience station in Roan Mountain also learned how to build what they designed

Roan Mountain Convenience Station

Hampton students complete project for Roan Mountain Conveneince Center this morning

HAMPTON — While most students in high school drawing and architecture classes work only with imaginary problems taken from textbooks and other coursework, the students from Hampton High School have been working on a real word project ford the Today at 9:18 PM

Regional tournament roundup

Bearden downs Dobyns-Bennett in 1-AAA semifinal

KNOXVILLE — Bearden continued to be a thorn in the side of the Dobyns-Bennett soccer programs Tuesday night.

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Outdoors

Public opportunity for input on outdoor recreation plan

Work on a regional master plan for outdoor recreation is moving forward with the help of $55,000 from the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Wild East Action Fund.

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Carter County's old recycling center was damaged by a fire earlier this year.

Carter Couty Commission

Carter County Commission approves plans to purchase building for recycling

ELIZABETHTON — The Carter County Commission gave its overwhelming approval to get back into the recycling business on Monday night by voting 22-1 to purchase the Lewis Wood Products property.

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Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Sevierville

Official's homophobic slur ignites explosive reaction against Tennessee tourism hot spot

SEVIERVILLE — Sevier County officials moved swiftly Tuesday to distance themselves from a county commissioner who used a homophobic slur to describe presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

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FILE - This Feb. 22, 2018, file photo shows a bridge that spans the Apalachee River at Moore's Ford Road where in 1946 two young black couples were stopped by a white mob who dragged them to the riverbank and shot them multiple times in Monroe, Ga. The lynching is prompting a U.S. court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in old cases with historical significance. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

U.S. Department of Justice

Court weighing whether judge can unseal lynching records

ATLANTA — Appeals court judges considering whether federal courts can order grand jury records unsealed in old cases of historical significance pointed out Tuesday that a recently passed federal law could provide another way to win release of Today at 3:18 PM

College football

Undefeated Clemson not bothered by slide from No. 1

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson keeps winning but has dropped from first to fourth in the poll. Its coaches and players don’t seem bothered in the least.

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Ambassador William Taylor, is escorted by U.S. Capitol Police as he arrives to testify before House committees as part of the Democrats' impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Impeachment

Diplomat provides House with 'disturbing' account on Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor, a diplomat who has sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s policy on Ukraine, has provided lawmakers with a “disturbing” account of events at the center of the impeachment probe , Democrats Today at 3:15 PM

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Impeachment

Trump likens House impeachment inquiry to 'a lynching'

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump triggered outrage Tuesday by comparing the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry to a lynching, assigning the horrors of a deadly and racist chapter in U.S. history to a process laid out in the Constitution.

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