Judge dismisses federal lawsuit against Ballad Health

GREENEVILLE — A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against Ballad Health, ruling that the plaintiffs did not provide any factual allegations of any potential injury.

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animal cruelty

Animal Control: Man killed kitten for playing with Christmas tree ornaments

Animal control authorities accused a Johnson City man of killing his kitten because it “messed with the Christmas tree.”

Dec 10, 2019 at 6:30 PM

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby loses appeal of sexual assault conviction

A Pennsylvania appeals court rejected Bill Cosby’s bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday over issues including the trial judge’s decision to let five other accusers testify.

Dec 10, 2019 at 10:48 AM

FILE - This 2017 file photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows Lee Hall, formerly known as Leroy Hall Jr. Hall, a death row inmate. Hall is scheduled to be electrocuted Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Hall walked onto death row nearly three decades ago with his sight, but attorneys for the 53-year-old prisoner say heâ€™s since become functionally blind due to improperly treated glaucoma. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP)

death penalty

Blind Tennessee inmate faces execution for woman's killing

NASHVILLE — Tennessee is set to carry out what is expected to be only the second execution of a blind prisoner in the United States since the nation reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Dec 5, 2019 at 2:02 PM

Carter County Sessions Court

Man charged with being cruel to dogs

ELIZABETHTON — A Carter County man was arraigned on eight counts of cruelty to animals in Sessions Court on Wednesday.

Dec 4, 2019 at 9:17 PM

crime

Men get plea deal in Tennessee Smokies sexual assault of homeless men

KNOXVILLE — Two men accused of taking homeless men to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to rape them have agreed to a plea deal.

Dec 3, 2019 at 8:49 AM

Dominique M. Fleming in a 2012 booking photo.

Washington County Criminal Court

Kingsport man arraigned on fetus murder, attempted murder of pregnant woman

A Kingsport man accused of attacking a pregnant woman with a hatchet, causing injuries that led to the death of her fetus, was arraigned Monday in a Washington County courtroom on a murder charge.

Dec 2, 2019 at 9:33 PM

Booking photo of Lt. Edwin "Eddie" Graybeal, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019.

Officer charged

Suspended sheriff's lieutenant, son arraigned

A suspended Washington County Sheriff’s deputy was arraigned Monday in Criminal Court for an incident last year for which he was accused of slapping a handcuffed man.

Dec 2, 2019 at 7:13 PM

John Zachary Woodard pleaded guilty Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 to assaulting a man in jail who later died from a head in jury.

Jailhouse homicide

Three plead guilty in jailhouse assault death

Three of the six men charged in a December jailhouse beating death — including the man authorities say delivered the fatal blow — pleaded guilty Monday in a Washington County courtroom to charges related to the incident.

Nov 18, 2019 at 10:00 PM

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, April Alley, front, daughter of Sedley Alley, hugs a member of her legal counsel in a Memphis, Tenn., courtroom. Since the early 1990s, 22 death row inmates around the U.S. have been exonerated through DNA evidence. Now the Innocence Project hopes to exonerate Sedley Alley, a Tennessee man who has already been executed. Alley was put to death by lethal injection in 2006 for the murder two decades earlier of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins. Alley said his confession was coerced. A judge is expected to rule Monday, Nov. 18 on whether DNA evidence can be tested. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP, File)

death penalty

Judge denies DNA testing sought 13 years post-execution

MEMPHIS — The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case, a Memphis judge ruled Monday, but the judge also said the ruling wasn’t based on the merits of the claims. Nov 18, 2019 at 4:29 PM

Washington County Grand Jury

Grand jury returns multiple indictments

A Johnson City teenager allegedly involved in a home invasion this summer was indicted by a Washington County grand jury on charges related to the incident.

Nov 17, 2019 at 6:33 PM

David Hammond

Washington County school board member indicted on order of protection violation

Washington County School Board member David Hammond was indicted earlier this month for violating an order of protection his girlfriend had obtained against him in April.

Nov 16, 2019 at 9:47 AM