Area News

School Board Member Vince Pendergrass has dropped his lawsuit against the Bledsoe County Board of Education, according to Bledsoe County Chancery Court records filed earlier. Pendergrass and his attorney filed a “Notice of Voluntary Nonsuit without Prejudice” on April 1, giving no explanation for why the lawsuit was being dropped. Doing so gives Pendergrass the…

Tyler Shell, a suspect in a vehicle theft in Dunlap, was shot by a Blue Sewanee Road resident on Saturday night, April 13. Shell had led officers on a pursuit on nearby Smith Mountain and was thought to be armed, a report stated. At about 8:15 p.m., Shell, on foot, reportedly charged a homeowner outside…

    Michelle Rains, Coordinated School Health (CSH) Director for Bledsoe County Schools, was awarded Tennessee’s Regional Coordinator of the Year by the Tennessee Department of Education Tuesday, April 9. For more see the April 11 issue of The Bledsonian Banner.

This weekend, Bledsoe County High School students will be experiencing prom, so prior to the celebration students were given a major dose of reality as they participated in a Mock Driving Under the Influence (DUI) program that lasted throughout the day on Friday, April 5. For more see the April 11 issue of The Bledsonian…

Bledsoe County High School students were given a major dose of reality on Friday, April 5, as they participated in a mock Driving Under the Influence (DUI) program that lasted throughout the day. Before the school bell rang in the afternoon, they witnessed a reenactment of a DUI incident in which two of their classmates…

Update: Rebecca Lasseter has been found safe in Alabama, according to the TBI. A statewide Endangered Child Alert has been issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and local law enforcement for 14-year-old Rebecca Lasseter of Bledsoe County. Rebecca was last seen at her residence in Spring City yesterday, April 2 wearing dark blue…

Use caution if traveling near the area of College Station Mountain Road, as authorities are responding to the scene of an overturned truck. No additional details about the accident are available at this time.

A Spencer Utility worker was killed after a serious accident on Phifer Mine Road in Van Buren County on Tuesday afternoon, April 2. The man was killed after a ditch collapsed on him while he was making repairs to a broken water line, after the Van Buren County Highway Department accidentally damaged the line while working…

The medical condition of a 16-year-old boy who was airlifted to Erlanger Medical Center after falling from a cliff is still being assessed, according to an Erlanger Spokeswoman. The incident occurred last night, March 28, at Hawks Bluff off of Simmons Road. The boy fell approximately 20 feet, according to First Lieutenant Corey Summers of the Bledsoe…

Sonya Hankins Nale, 48, of Pikeville, was arrested yesterday after The Bledsoe County Grand Jury returned two indictments of Bribery of a Public Servant against her on Monday, March 25. Nale is accused of “[offering] to pay an arresting deputy to drop charges against another individual, and later offered money to a judge in exchange…