Dellinger had been awaiting execution for more than 25 years for a murder in Blount County ... are all executions on hold in Tennessee? There are currently 46 inmates on death row in Tennessee ...

As law enforcement once again rallies behind the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Berrong thanked the community. “East Tennessee and the State of Tennessee, it gives us the strength to ...

James Dellinger, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for a first-degree murder in Blount County, died in prison ... according to a news release from the Tennessee Department of Correction.

A man suspected of fatally shooting a Blount ... deputy in Tennessee was taken into custody Tuesday after a several-day manhunt, according to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities are asking any inmate who may have had a similar experience with Kelsoe to call sheriff’s investigators. His arrest comes two months after a former Blount County Jail corrections ...

More than 150 law enforcement personnel are searching for a man in east Tennessee accused of ... according to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office. Officers have searched dense and wooded areas ...