Residents' well water contaminated by septic failure at Bean Station...
Families near a slaughterhouse in Bean Station are using bottled water after their well water was contaminated by coliform and E.coli. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation says the...
View ArticleBoil water advisory issued: Local slaughterhouse in violation of sewage...
Some residents along Helton Road and Lakeshore Drive have been warned their wells may be affected by the catastrophic failure of a local slaughter house's septic system. The Tennessee Department of...
View ArticleLamb announces candidacy for county clerk
Angie Jackson Lamb has announced her candidacy for re-election in the May 1 Republican primary for County Clerk of Grainger County. A native of Grainger County, she is the daughter of Gary "Dupie" and...
View ArticleSheriff's department rounds up 13 indicted on drug charges
Officers with the Grainger County Sheriff's Department arrested 13 people Wednesday, March 28 who have been indicted by a Grainger County Grand Jury on charges related to the sale and delivery of...
View ArticleElection commission to certify candidates Thursday for state primary -...
Grainger County Election Commission will meet Thursday at 4 p.m. to certify candidates for the Aug. 2 state primary and nonpartisan election for Grainger County Board of Education. Thursday at noon is...
View ArticleICE raids Grainger County meat packing plant
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations , Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol were all on hand at Southeastern...
View Article97 detained at Grainger Co. slaughterhouse following ICE raid
New details were released Friday about Thursday's raid on an East Tennessee slaughterhouse by the IRS, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. What initially began as...
View ArticleICE Raids Tennessee Meatpacking Plant, 54 Arrested
Immigration authorities detained nearly 100 people and arrested more than 50 of them in a massive immigration raid Thursday in Tennessee. According to local news reports, 97 people were targeted in the...
View ArticleAmong the Abortion Extremists
ICE raids Grainger County meatpacking plant amid charges owners avoided $2.5M in payroll taxes - For more on the story here is Zachary Devita/ Buzz60 - Federal agents raided a Bean Station, Tennessee...
View Article10 workers from Mexico, Guatemala face court hearing Friday
Ten people from Mexico and Guatemala detained during a federal raid of a Grainger County slaughterhouse are set to appear Friday before a U.S. magistrate judge in Greeneville. Nine previously had been...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to allow wine sales in grocery stores on Sundays, holidays
The legislation, HB 1540, would align hours of wine sales at grocery stores with beer sales, with some exceptions. It would also allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays.
View ArticleImmigrants detained in raid at meatpacking plant: Employment tax fraud alleged
When federal and state law enforcement officials descended upon a local slaughterhouse Thursday, April 5, to execute a search warrant related to charges of tax evasion and falsifying employment...
View ArticlePhillips announces candidacy for sheriff
A lifelong resident of Grainger County, Phillips is a 1984 graduate of Rutledge High School. He said it has always been his desire to use his training and experience to serve the people in the county...
View ArticleBean Station search warrant leads to four arrests
Three individuals were arrested following the execution of a search warrant by officers with the Bean Station Police Department at a residence on Diamond Lane in Bean Station. Wendy Renea Jarnigan, 41,...
View ArticleICE raided a meatpacking plant. More than 500 kids missed school the next day
The day before, federal authorities had swept through a nearby meatpacking plant, rounding up nearly 100 people they accused of being in the United States illegally. Immigrant rights groups say last...
View ArticleThe nine men and one woman are being held in Washington County, Tennessee.
Ten undocumented men and women accused of violating immigration laws while working at a Grainger County slaughterhouse will remain in custody until their federal trials. Summer trial dates have been...
View ArticleThe Meat Industry and Exploited Undocumented Labor
Good piece here that implicates everyday consumers and their desire for cheap meat in the broader immigration issue and how it helps exploit the poorest workers we have. At the Southern Provision...
View ArticleMushroom hunters find remains of Morristown woman missing over 2 years
Remains found in Grainger County on Wednesday have been identified as a Morristown woman missing for more than two years. The Morristown Police Department says the remains of Inesha Haygood were found...
View ArticleLarge ICE raid in Tennessee breeds fear - but also love
The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition marches in Morristown on Thursday to protest the ICE raid of a meat packing plant in Grainger County last week where 97 workers were detained.
View ArticleToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
The day before, federal authorities had swept through a nearby meatpacking plant, rounding up nearly 100 people they accused of being in the United States illegally. Immigrant rights groups say last...
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