Officials say Laurel Creek Road is now back open.

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Crews started working early Thursday morning to clear damage left by a rock slide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Park officials closed Laurel Creek Road Wednesday evening after the slide happened at 5 p.m., west of Schoolhouse Gap, about five miles west of the Townsend Wye intersection with Little River Road.

Sevierville police said they're searching for a man accused of robbing a bank.

At about 12:20 p.m. Monday, officers said the man handed a note to a teller at the Sevier County Bank on Dolly Parton Parkway demanding money. The suspect then took off in a black GMC or Chevrolet pickup truck with large wheels and a lowered body.

A lawsuit says a woman's brain injury from a headfirst fall at Dollywood was caused by a mix of sleet and rain that made a ride "dangerously slick" and the lack of adequate safety measures.

Tedi A. Brown and her husband filed the suit against the Tennessee theme park's operators.