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 ...

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 ...

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

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – After nearly 20 years in a facility that was supposed to be temporary, Monroe County Friends of Animals has more than outgrown the space. Plans for a new facility were ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Monroe County inmate who the Knox County District Attorney’s office says escaped while on a work detail in November 2022 has been convicted of stealing a maintenance ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The parents of a Monroe County, Tennessee teen who died last month found letters she had written to them before her death. Jason and Crystal Taylor are taking it one day ...

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 ...