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Before we turn the calendar to 2024, try your hand at resident historian and Half Century Club member Tom Kacichs quiz about who and what were making news 50 years

Before we turn the calendar to 2024, try your hand at resident historian and Half Century Club member Tom Kacichs quiz about who and what were making news 50 years

"Arguably, no individual did more to promote Champaign County and the United States as destinations to lure visitors from around the world," Peter Tomaras writes of the late Dick Newman.

ELIZABETHTON — After a lengthy preliminary hearing in Sessions Court on Wednesday, a man was bound over to a Carter County grand jury on a murder charge and six additional

Jacob Allen Morley, 23, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the death of Cody Birchfield. That charge was amended to premeditated first-degree murder.

ELIZABETHTON — Carter County jurors considering the fate of Chad Anthony Benfield will resume their work at 9 this morning after deliberating for more than five hours on Friday.

ELIZABETHTON — Two Carter County Sheriff’s Department investigators and Chad Benfield’s former fiancée took the stand Thursday in Benfield’s trial on a first-degree murder charge.

ELIZABETHTON — The long-awaited trial of Chad Anthony Benfield began in earnest on Tuesday, with seven witnesses testifying in a hearing that went on until after sunset.

ELIZABETHTON — An Elizabethton man was sentenced to 210 months in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty on a charge of distribution of child pornography.