A Morgan County man is facing charges, after he took a loaded semi-automatic handgun to the McGhee Tyson Airport on Tuesday, according to Knoxville media outlets. The gun was found on Tuesday inside a carry-on bag at the security checkpoint by transportation safety officers. The gun’s owner, Bobby York, told officers he was flying to [...]

Members of the Class of 2013 in Morgan County will graduate beginning Thursday night. Coalfield will be the first high school in the county to hold commencement which will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Then Oakdale will be next beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday followed by Wartburg at 10:30. Sunbright will wind things [...]

Secretary of State Tre Hargett was in Morgan County on Monday afternoon along with Sen. Ken Yager and State Rep. John Mark Windle. Their purpose was to present a check to the Morgan County Archives Committee. Hargett says, “This is one of 20 archival grants we’re able to make throughout the state and this money [...]

The Second Annual Plateau Utility District (PUD) Kids Fishing Tournament was held on Saturday, May 11th at the Water Treatment Facility in Wartburg. Over 50 kids participated this year, topping last years total of 46. While the weather was questionable for Saturday, it held off long enough to get some great fishing in. WECO AdministratorMore [...]

Last year Plateau Utility District held a fishing tournament for kids at its treatment plant facility. Mike Monroe and his staff are inviting kids to come out and fish again this Saturday. MONROE: “Saturday we’re going to have our second annual fishing tournament at the water treatment facility here in Wartburg. We tried that last [...]

Life Care Center of Morgan County will be celebrating National Nursing Home Week all next week, May 13 through 17 but the celebration will be getting an early start on Saturday. Kelly Bilyeu, the activities director at Life Care, shares the details. BILYEU: “Well Saturday morning at 10 o’clock we’re going to kind of do [...]

Two children were removed from a home in Wartburg yesterday when police officers went to serve a warrant for theft on the mother. Wartburg police officer Dwayne Bales explains. BALES: “I went down to Russell Laymance Road to serve a warrant I had on a Kim Christian that lived in the trailer park. When he [...]

Sunbright Police Chief Allen Dagley was injured just after midnight while assisting Wartburg Police on a domestic call. According to E-911 dispatch, they received a call at about 12:05 this morning that an officer was injured while pursuing a suspect who was running from police at Sunnyside Apartments in Wartburg. Wartburg Police and Morgan County [...]

Roane State’s Wartburg campus opened in the fall of 2008 and Michelle Adkisson is the Morgan County Campus director. She says enrollment has shown solid growth. ADKISSON: “We’ve been doing really well. This past semester we had almost 200 which is double our enrollment of where we were when we opened in the fall of [...]