According to the preliminary numbers for this year’s rafting season, fewer people floated down the Pigeon River, which led to ...

Pet of the Week is Murphy. Murphy is an adorable beagle mix with the sweetest personality and the cutest brown spots ...

Today’s issue of The Newport Plain Talk includes a special section about the devastating 2024 flood from the remnants of ...

There has been a steady decrease in the number of Cocke County residents receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Fundraising efforts for Wreaths Across America are underway. Donations were recently collected by volunteers at both Newport ...

If you thought you saw Colonel Sanders in Newport, your eyes weren’t fooling you. A Newport man won the Col. Sanders Look Alike Contest held during the World ...

Over the next three weeks I will be telling you about some exciting events coming up surrounding Veterans Day, and the start ...

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs was quite understanding with the 15-year-old who had pepper-sprayed a man while a friend pummeled him, and while others in her group ...

The exquisite beauty and grandeur of the morning lured me from my fireside chair into the chilly morning air. Oh, that I could paint, but a picture with words is ...

Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia was mayor of New York City. He liked to go alongside police, in ambulances, or with city workers to find out what was going on in the ...

Mardy Roberts III turned and waved the checkered flag toward the crowd Saturday afternoon, his green vintage Legends car ...

Newport Medical Center announced it is launching a pledge to offer ER care with wait times of 30 minutes or less to initially ...