Friday 27th January, 2012
Proposed landfill brings concern for Crab Orchard residents
Joyce Haney has lived in her Crab Orchard home for more than 30 years. "I've lived here ever since me and my husband has been married," she said. However, she's afraid of ...
Carter High School honors former football player, now in NFL
Carter High School honored an alumni and former football standout Friday night by retiring his jersey. Garrett Reynolds graduated from Carter in 2005 and is now an offensive lineman for the Atlanta ...
Dog at center of national rescue effort adopted
center of a national rescue effort has now found a new home. Kasidy was pregnant when she was taken to Young Williams Animal Center. Rumors soon emerged that her puppies were going to be killed ...
Sen. Campfield stands by radio comments, experts say he's wrong
WBIRState Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) is making national headlines for an interview he gave on Sirius XM radio. On the Michelangelo Signorile Show, the Knoxville senator said that ...
Tellico Plains Coach celebrates 600 wins
WBIROne Tellico Plains coach is celebrating a special milestone. Coach Gary Tucker has been coaching since 1974. This past Tuesday, he scored win number 600. Players past and present came to support ...
Pedestrian killed after hit while walking along I-40
WBIRA pedestrian who was struck while walking along I-40 near Newport is now dead. According to officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the elderly man was walking along the interstate near exit ...
One dead in Anderson County wreck
Knox NewsAccording to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, James W. Sisson, 62, of Oliver Springs, died in the wreck that occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. today on Highway 61 at Bill Key ...
New Anderson task force launches centralized dispatching study
Knox NewsCLINTON -- Any move to centralize Anderson County dispatching operations and merge the county's three E-911 Emergency Communications Districts will take "significant time and effort," ...
BankEast closed by state, will re-open as US Bank
WBIRBankEast was closed Friday by the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions. The ten BankEast branches will reopen Monday as branches of the Cincinnatti-based US Bank National Association. ...
Meth lab explodes as suspect tries to flush it down toilet
WBIRA woman suffered minor burns after investigators say she tried to flush a meth lab down a toilet. According to Grainger County Sheriff Scott Layel, deputies raided an active meth lab on Highway 92 ...
All nine TVA main stem dams are spilling
WBIRResidents in Kingston are experiencing unusually high water levels for this time of year. Water in Watts Bar is on the rise. According to TVA, the water level is above their typical summer levels ...
Historic country store set for demolition in SE Knox County
WBIROne by one, people in the Riverdale community spontaneously stopped their vehicles along Thorngrove Pike to visit a dying friend on Friday. The visitors openly reminisced about the times they would ...
Pet Memorial hopes to help make loss of animal a bit easier
WBIRSuffering the loss of a beloved pet is a hard thing, but one group at UT tried to make that loss a little easier on Friday night. UT's Department of Veterinary Social Work held a Pet Memorial ...
Knoxville's BankEast fails; closed by state banking officials
WATE 6KNOXVILLE (WATE) - State banking officials closed BankEast in Knoxville late Friday after they determined the bank could not meet its obligations to customers. A Cincinnati, Ohio bank has purchased ...
Utility work to cause lane closures in Downtown Knoxville
WBIRUtility work over the weekend will cause some lane closures in Downtown Knoxville. KUB will reduce traffic to one eastbound lane and one westbound lane on a section of West Church Avenue between ...
Arizona sheriff: Knoxville man threatened to kill him over Obama investigation
WATE 6KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A Knoxville man is accused of threatening an Arizona sheriff who is investigating claims President Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S. Adam Eugene Cox, 33, was arrested ...
Eastman Chemical acquires St. Louis business
WBIRKINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- Eastman Chemical Co. is acquiring Solutia Inc., a specialty chemicals business, for approximately $4.7 billion. Eastman, based in Kingsport, Tenn., and Solutia, based in ...
Roane assistant principal arrested for domestic assault
WBIRAn assistant principal at Oliver Springs High School faces one charge of domestic assault. The Morgan County Sheriff's Office said they arrested Donna Renee Moore. According to deputies, ...
Ijams in early February: Birds, hikes, groundhogs and gardening
Knox NewsIjams Nature Center has plenty cooking in early February -- everything from programs on groundhogs, birds of prey and winter gardening to a Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge walk to building bluebird ...
Knoxville lawyer's license suspended
Knox NewsWesley Markland Baker's license was suspended "for a definite period of two years and indefinitely thereafter until Mr. Baker makes full restitution to his client and/or the Lawyer's ...
From 'super car' to electrics, auto show offers full lineup
Knox NewsJ.L. Gray of Kyles Ford, Tenn., gets behind the wheel of a new model during the 2012 News Sentinel Auto Show Friday at the Convention Center. The event continues Saturday and Sunday with more than ...
Regulators close BankEast; U.S. Bank acquires assets
Knox NewsA Tennessee state trooper stands guard inside BankEast on Friday shortly after its acquisition by U.S. Bank. (CHAD GREENE/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS ...
Knox County Criminal Court clerk suspended — but not over gun remark
Knox NewsA Knox County Criminal Court clerk who said she "ought to go home and get my husband's gun" after a confrontation over her work performance left the office and returned later the same ...
Maryville teens plead guilty to spotlighting, killing bear cubs
WBIRAccording to TWRA, Jesse Lee McClellan, 18, and Corey Martin Campbell, 19, were in the Top of the World Community of Blount County last November, when they shone a light into the eyes of the cubs, ...
Tree damages Blount Co. woman's home
WBIRA Blount County community is cleaning up Friday, after last night's rain and storms. "The whole bed just started moving and the pictures on the walls, the ceiling fan was swinging back ...
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