6, according to court records. Larry Ray Southerland, 73, died Aug. 21. Both men were inmates at the Blount County Jail prior to their hospitalizations and are among four inmates there to die from ...

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 ...

Blount County leaders are working on a new approach to cut the number of inmates in the county jail. They've battled overcrowding for years. When the jail opened in 1999, it was certified for 350 ...

The Blount County Sheriff’s office in Tennessee released body and dash camera video on Friday showing what led up to the shooting of two deputies during a traffic stop last week that triggered a ...

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 ...

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.