Mayor Glenn Jacobs has tapped retired Knox County Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief Brian Bivens as the head of the county’s juvenile detention center, at least temporarily.

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

A man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor at a ranch in Kaufman County has requested his murder trial be held elsewhere.

In 1889 the Rhea County Court moved the county seat to Dayton (previously Smith’s Crossroads) from Washington in Rhea County, and appropriated $35,000 for the building of a courthouse. The courthouse ...

SEBASTIAN COUNTY, Ark. — A 48-year-old Fort Smith man has died while on hold awaiting immigration authorities in the Sebastian County Detention Center. Juan Manuel Salazar-Lopez was booked on ...

RHEA COUNTY, Tenn. — A tenured teacher at an elementary school in Rhea County who was fired has now filed a lawsuit, claiming discrimination because of her disabilities. The suit claims the ...

On Tuesday, June 24, California City’s City Council will hold a meeting to express its opposition to a proposed immigration detention center in the Kern County community.

On Tuesday, June 24, California City’s City Council will hold a meeting to express its opposition to a proposed immigration detention center in the Kern County community. Earlier this week, the ...

RHEA COUNTY — The Rhea County Commission approved on Tuesday two contracts with Troutman Property Solutions LLC to renovate the bathrooms and two hallways in the historic Rhea County Courthouse. Rhea ...

A disabled former first grade teacher in Rhea County has accused administrators at Spring City Elementary School of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act with "harassment, bullying and ...

Multnomah County commissioners are set to vote next week on a $2.5 million settlement to the estate of Clemente Pineda, who died in the Multnomah County Detention Center while detoxing from ...

Essex County 4 detainees at N.J. ICE detention center used mattresses, sheets to help aid escape, feds say Updated: Jun. 18, 2025, 6:29 a.m. | Published: Jun. 17 ...