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

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

A young father and fiancé in Ingram, Texas, is among the latest people being mourned after torrential rains and flash floods ...

Odessa Police Officer Bailey Martin is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Odessa police say Martin ...

The RISE Business Academy has graduated its 13th cohort, adding eight new businesses led by entrepreneurs impacted by the ...

A young father and fiancé in Ingram, Texas, is among the latest people being mourned after torrential rains and flash floods in the central part of the state.

Anyone older than three years old with the ability to travel to Bledsoe County High School or Rhea County Middle School can receive medical, dental, and optometry services at no cost from July 11-21, ...

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 ...

In “Causes Go On Forever, A Chronology of the Scopes Trial”, authors Randy Moore and Tom Davis (2024- Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society, PO Box 31, Dayton, Tennessee 37321), include many ...

Locals in Dayton now mark that history with a festival and reenactment staged in the historic Rhea County Courthouse courtroom where the 1925 trial took place.