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Police in Tennessee are investigating whether a similar attack in a nearby town is related to the disappearance of 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo from her home in Parsons, Tenn. Heather Sullivan, 31, lives in Centerville, about 45 minutes from Parsons. She told NBC News she was approached by a "tall, skinny man" outside her home at around 5:30 one morning in January. She said he grabbed her arm as she was getting out of her car, causing her to drop a lamp she was carrying. She said her boyfriend heard the lamp break, came rushing out and apparently frightened the man ...
Hundreds of volunteers combed wooded areas of Tennessee today in the search for missing nursing student Holly Bobo, believed to have been abducted from her home by a man wearing camouflage clothing. Bobo, 20, is the cousin of country music singer Whitney Duncan. The search has galvanized the area near the small community of Parsons where she lives, about an hour northeast of Memphis. "This Sunday is no day of rest," local TV news anchor Will Nunley wrote in one of his many Twitter updates from the search site. He described a "nonstop shuttle of buses" bringing volunteers to the woods to ...
Authorities in west Tennessee are searching for the 20-year-old cousin of country star Whitney Duncan. The young nursing student was abducted from her home during an apparent home invasion, police said. Holly Bobo was last seen Wednesday morning outside her one-story, ranch-style house in Darden, a small community about 100 miles northeast of Memphis. A neighbor called 911 when she heard a woman screaming shortly after 7:30 a.m. Bobo's 25-year-old brother, who was inside his sister's house at the time, also called 911. According to police, Bobo's brother said he saw a man dressed in ...
The second major outbreak of dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes is poised to sweep across parts of the United States in the coming days, following quickly on the heels of a storm that produced more than 1,800 severe weather reports earlier this week, including 66 tornado reports. The severe weather is expected to be most widespread on Sunday. The Storm Prediction Center, comprising the government's thunderstorm and tornado forecasting experts, has outlined a large area from the Plains to the Midwest and parts of the South as a potentially dangerous region on Sunday and Sunday night. The ...
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The powerful storm system that swept through the Plains on Sunday and to the East Coast today, killing at least seven people in the Deep South, spawned over 1,500 reports of severe weather since Sunday, including a record-breaking 1,200-plus reports during one 24-hour period. The hardest hit regions were the Tennessee Valley, Mississippi Valley and the Southeast, where the majority of the reports piled up from early Monday through early Tuesday. During the 24 hours, more preliminary severe weather reports -- large hail, wind damage and tornadoes -- were tallied than in any other 24-hour ...
JACKSON, Ga. -- Fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the South, uprooting trees, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and killing at least seven people. The storms were part of a system that cut a wide swath from the Mississippi River across the Southeast to Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday and early Tuesday. Skies were clearing in many areas that were hit, but tornado watches remained in effect in eastern North and South Carolina as the storms appeared to head out to sea. A father and his young son were killed when a tree fell onto ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A sub-contractor employee has been charged with lying about inspections at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The site is the only one in the U.S. where a nuclear reactor is under construction. David Humber, Getty Images A sub-contractor is accused of making false statements about work being done at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee. The U.S. attorney in Knoxville said Matthew David Correll, 31, of Hixson has been charged in a two-count indictment with making false statements. A news release said ...
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