They began by swapping tornado stories over barbecue in the Arise Center on the Glade Spring Town Square Thursday night, as musicians played at the front of the large, open room.

UPDATE - Inmates captured in Newport TN.

They will be transported to the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

The inmates escped by crawling under a prison fence, Sheriff Chris Mathes said.

Blountville Middle School student Isaac Whitehead didn’t know how to spell the winning word -- epithet. But he sounded it out and managed to win the Sullivan County Spelling Bee Thursday night.