Today's News

Tiffany Danielle Stout, a 36-year-old Harriman woman, is facing a drug charge for allegedly trying to sell her prescription medication.

According to a Roane County Sheriff’s Office report, the person she agreed to sell to on March 27 was an undercover officer.

“The affiant, acting as a drug customer, contacted Stout via text message and inquired about purchasing medication,” Sheriff’s Office Detective Jason Mynatt wrote in the report. “Stout agreed to sell the affiant 12 Suboxone for $20 per pill at Kroger in Harriman.”

Making moonshine is as much part of the Appalachian makeup as grits or country music.

It’s part of Rich Minnick’s DNA, and he wants to share the tradition’s history with the community.

Minnick, aka Moonshiner Pappi, learned the moonshine trade from his grandfather.

“When I was 6 years old I started following my grandfather into the woods wondering what he was doing. For two years I didn’t do nothing but watch them,” said Moonshiner Pappi.

By Mark Banker

Recent revelations suggest that Britain-based voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica used infor-mation from Facebook in its at-tempt to influence at least 50 million voters in the 2016 presidential election.

If reports that the Trump campaign paid the firm $6 million for their services are true, special counsel Robert Mueller will, no doubt, consider if this effort aided and abetted alleged Russian meddling in the election.

By Melissa Coley

newsroom@roanecounty.com

After a sloppy first half of an inning, Rockwood bounced back to defeat the Coalfield Yellow Jackets by a final score of 18-4.

Nathan Harvey opened the game by smacking a fastball down the middle to right field and advanced to third as Aston Jones was hit by a pitch and Tyler Keathley walked to load the bases. Jake Kilby’s 2 RBI single scored Harvey and Jones and Keathley scored on a passed ball to give the Jackets a 3-0 lead going to the bottom of the first.