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August 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Overdue Smokies backpacker rescued
August 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
GATLINBURG – Morgan Briggs, the 70-year old backpacker who was overdue from a backpacking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was airlifted to safety today around 9:20 a.m. following an 8-night ordeal in the Smokies backcountry. Assisting the National Park Service’s rescue effort, the Tennessee Highway Patrol Special Operations team, flying a Huey [...]
Elmer H. Peterson, 1946-2009
August 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Elmer H. Peterson, 63, of Louisville, passed away August 30th, at U.T. Hospital. Mr. Peterson was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving during the Vietnam War. He was a magician, ventriloquist, artist and Sunday School teacher. He had recently retired from U.P.S., Callahan Road, after 30 years. Mr. Peterson is survived by his parents, Ben [...]
Overdue Smokies backpacker located in good condition
August 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
GATLINBURG – At about 4:00 p.m. this afternoon ground searchers on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park spotted what they thought might be a tent on an outcrop approximately a mile from their vantage point. The searchers were able to guide a helicopter which had been contracted to assist in the search [...]
Ruth Virginia Galyon, 1927-2009
August 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ruth Virginia Galyon, 82, went to be with Jesus Saturday evening August 29, 2009. She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Ella Baker; brother, Carlos Mayford Baker; very dear friend, Sherman Galyon; and very special Aunt, Gladys Hodge. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and the best Nana in [...]
Smokies rangers search for overdue backpacker
August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
GATLINBURG – Five teams of Great Smoky Mountains National Park trackers searched all day today for 70 year-old Morgan Briggs, who has been overdue since Tuesday, when he had planned to complete a 4-day backpacking trip. The teams covered a total of nine different drainages and other possible routes between Campsite #31 and the Appalachian [...]
Frank “Speedy” Myers, 1935-2009
August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Frank “Speedy” Myers, 74, of Maryville, passed away Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, at Ben Atchley Veterans Home in Knoxville. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a long-time employee for Ledbetter TV. He is survived by brother and sister-in-law, Carl and Lois Myers of Bryson City, N.C.; sister, Dorothy Rhymer of Hobart, Ind.; [...]
FBI identifies serial bank robber
August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Leads continue to pour in as FBI identifies serial bank robber currently featured on electronic billboard campaign throughout the Southeast KNOXVILLE – Today, a federal arrest warrant was issued from the Eastern District of Tennessee charging 36 year old Chad E. Schaffner with two counts of Bank Robbery and two counts of Use of a [...]
Senator Edward Kennedy dies from brain cancer
August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (VOA) — Senator Edward Kennedy, a legendary political figure in the United States, died on Tuesday after a year long battle with malignant glioma, the most common type of brain cancer among adults. Although he had the most up to date treatments — surgery at Duke University Medical Center, chemotherapy and radiation — he [...]