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2 weeks ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
SNOWMASS, Co. (WJHL) — A group of veterans from the Tri-Cities is representing the Mountain Home VA at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Colorado. Around 400 veterans from across the nation participate in a multitude of adapted sports activities like downhill skiing, sled hockey and snowboarding. “I’m not around veterans, you know, disabled veterans hardly at all,” Air Force veteran Greg Marlow, who’s from Telford, said.
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4 weeks ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – The impacts of Hurricane Helene and the devastation it caused will be seen and felt for years to come. But, state and local highway departments are working to fix the damage to roadways and bridges so people can get around.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Anslee Daniel
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – The impacts of Hurricane Helene and the devastation it caused will be seen and felt for years to come. But, state and local highway departments are working to fix the damage to roadways and bridges so people can get around.
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1 month ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Don Davis joined the Army to help him pay for school, but his short stint in the military set him up for a lifetime of service to others. “I wanted to go to ETSU and didn’t have any money, and it was very cheap back then to go to school, and they suggested I go talk to the recruiter,” Davis said. Davis joined the Army in 1959 and worked in the armored division, helping to get supplies to the frontlines. But then there was an accident.
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1 month ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (WJHL)- In 1986, Dolly Parton’s dream of what it would look like to replace the “H” in Hollywood with a “D” came true, and Dollywood was born. “I remember looking out my tour bus hoping that somebody was gonna come, and I’m amazed that the cars are still coming in,” Dolly Parton said in a video shown to the media Tuesday. “I’m very grateful.”As the park prepares to celebrate 40 years, leaders are including nods to the past while looking ahead to the future.
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2 months ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — John Brooks was set to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, but he had his sights set on becoming a Navy Frogman. A Navy Frogman is commonly known now as a Navy SEAL, but no matter how you refer to the job, becoming one is no easy feat. “We are the commandos that sneak in and sneak out. We’re small units, small groups from four to 14 men. We’re kind of a reconnaissance. We’re like Army Rangers,” Brooks said. “We find the enemy.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Anslee Daniel
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — John Brooks was set to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, but he had his sights set on becoming a Navy Frogman. A Navy Frogman is commonly known now as a Navy SEAL, but no matter how you refer to the job, becoming one is no easy feat. “We are the commandos that sneak in and sneak out. We’re small units, small groups from four to 14 men. We’re kind of a reconnaissance. We’re like Army Rangers,” Brooks said. “We find the enemy.
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2 months ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Megan Boswell was convicted Thursday of murdering her 15-month-old daughter Evelyn Boswell. A Sullivan County jury found Boswell guilty of 19 charges in her daughter’s disappearance and death, including three counts of felony murder, 11 counts of false reports, child abuse, child neglect, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death, and abuse of a corpse. The group deliberated for about four and a half hours.
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2 months ago | 
wjhl.com | Murry Lee |Anslee Daniel
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Megan Boswell’s trial is in its final stages after both sides rested their cases and gave their closing arguments. The jury was sent to deliberation without ever hearing from Boswell herself. On Wednesday, Boswell did speak, though only in a few words and without the jury present. She stated for the court’s record that she was exercising her right to not testify in the trial.
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2 months ago | 
wjhl.com | Anslee Daniel
ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — Bill Booth served in the Army during the Korean War era. Now, he has a different role in the Lord’s army as a preacher. “The thing about being in the service..being in the Army, Paul’s writing in Timothy says be a good soldier in Jesus Christ so we’re all soldiers of the cross so I’m still in the battle,” Booth said. Booth, an Erwin native, has preached in several states across the Southeast.
