The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to ...

The Rhea County Courthouse has become and remained an important historical site since the notorious Scopes trial. Still, to this say the site sparks conversation.

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

Circuit court minutes from the Scopes Trial on display at the Rhea Heritage & Scopes Trial Museum inside the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tenn., on June 11, 2025.

Well-known Chattanooga attorney Jerry H. Summers on Friday told members of the Civitan Club about the long-remembered Scopes ...

Complete with celebrity lawyers, a media frenzy, and a live chimp, the Scopes Monkey Trial catalyzed a national debate still ...

Shauntzie Breanna Rhea, the child's biological mother, was booked on a $500,000 bond. Jayson Wayne Langlinais received a $250 ...

Something special is happening in Rhea County in July to mark the 100th anniversary of a very important event there, a trial ...

LGBTQ+ service organizations are already coping with stoppage of federal and state funds for nonprofits, with HIV prevention, ...

John Scopes, a high school teacher, went on trial in the Rhea County Courthouse - accused of violating a Tennessee law that ...

Another woman whose name has come to mind for me recently is Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. After seeing her autobiography, “Lovely One,” on a table ...

“Arguments started on July 10, 1925, at the Rhea County Courthouse. The trial may have begun as a determination of whether Scopes had violated the Butler Act, but both sides soon focused on debating ...