Today's News

The Campbell County High School girls’ varsity basketball team won its 11th consecutive game Tuesday night with a 69-29 home trouncing of district foe Karns.

Point guard Courtney Morris led the victory parade with 14 points for the Lady Cougars (7-0 district, 13-4 overall).

Kristin Chapman chipped in 13 points, followed by Shayla Goins with 12, Niki Ward and Maria Foust eight each, Hannah Owens five, Amber Young four, Courtney Miller three and Emily Byrge two.

Whitney Benge led Karns with six points.

In an economy where jobs are hard to find, 90 more people will now be in the hunt after the body armor plant PACA closed.

The company, which began in 1975, gathered its employees for a final time last Wednesday morning.

“We didn’t think anything about it,” said Lena Testo of the meeting. Although the company had exchanged hands and employees knew changes could happen, Testo said the closure was “devastating.”

Allegedly impaired people should not go to gas stations to play the quarters machine. That is the moral of the story for a Jacksboro man.

LaFollette Police Officer James Farmer was called to the Shell station on Jacksboro Pike to investigate reports of an impaired person on the premises. At the station Farmer noted an unoccupied vehicle was running outside the store.

Reports of a fight involving a weapon summoned officers to a Linden Circle address last week.

On Jan. 7, LaFollette Police Officer James Farmer went to 428 Linden Circle after receiving reports of a fight.

At the scene a witness stated he had brought Dustin Hawkins to the residence to retrieve his car. The witness reported when Hawkins knocked on the door to get his keys from his girlfriend, Jeffery Lynn Bolton, 47, of 428 Linden Circle, came out of the residence and began cursing at Hawkins and allegedly pushed him down the steps, records indicate.