As days begin to grow shorter and fall nips at the air, most people of Rhea County start thinking about preparing for the ...

A Rhea County man has plead guilty to one count of incest after initially being indicted for several sexual assault offenses, ...

Rhea County- (WDEF)-Back-to-school season is underway in Rhea County, with preparations in full swing as the first day ...

A Mt. Pleasant couple is behind bars in Tennessee after being charged with crimes related to the sexual assault of a child and the assault of the girl’s grandmother.

The Athens Police Department are searching for a person of interest after a shooting that left one dead and one injured ...

ATHENS, Tenn. (WDEF) – Students in Rhea County and McMinn County, Tennessee, returned to school on Friday, August 1st, but ...

More than 200 service members from the U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Reserve and U.S. Air Force Reserve ...

Nobody was surprised when a Tennessee jury found coach and substitute teacher John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution to ...

Following 45 years as the 18th Judicial District Attorney General, Ray Whitley on Friday announced his retirement, effective ...

Newspapers dubbed it ‘The Trial of the Century.’ As grandiose as that description may sound, it might have been an ...

The family of George Thacker, a 59-year-old former Rhea County Executive, has filed a federal lawsuit following his death at ...