It’s Election Day in Monroe County, and voters have decided who will continue to the general election in August. The polls ...

A Monroe County, Tennessee, deputy is recovering after being shot during a standoff with a man wanted on a felony warrant. The barricaded man, identified in court records as Richard Neal Brown, 60, ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Tennessee Department of Transportation said a bridge demolition is impacting traffic on I-75 in Monroe County. According to TDOT, the old State Route 322 bridge over ...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation demolished the old SR 322 bridge over I-75, causing a weekend closure and ...

UPDATE (11/15/2024): Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was extradited back to Tennessee late last night. Hamlett is facing First-Degree Murder charges for the death of Steven Douglas Lloyd near the Cherohala ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Monroe County man is doing his part to preserve history in East Tennessee. Richard Holmes has been repairing, replacing and cleaning tombstones on the graves of ...

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — An East Tennessee murder suspect appeared Tuesday morning in a Monroe County courtroom for an arraignment hearing days after his arrest in South Carolina. Nicholas Hamlett ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The FBI is assisting the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and Tennessee authorities in the search for Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45. Hamlett is charged with first-degree murder ...

A 2020 TBI case against a Monroe County, Tennessee, couple that led to felony theft charges that were dismissed Monday should never have been prosecuted in the first place, according to an attorney ...