District Attorney General Randy Nichols has announced a Knox County prosecutor will be suspended a week without pay over a drunk driving arrest in Anderson County. Kevin Allen, 44,...

Elaine Davis, a one-time commissioner and would-be candidate, has filed suit to be added to the ballot in Knox County after being excluded due...

DUI arrest in Oak Ridge in February. District Attorney General Randy Nichols announced the suspension of Kevin Allen, 44, on Thursday, adding that it's in addition to whatever punishment he...

Greene County's Link Hills Country Club will play host to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' Golf National Championships, bringing the event to Tennessee for the first time. The...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Firefighters extinguished a fire at an oil disposal facility in West Knoxville Thursday morning. The fire started at 10:10 a.m. outside Enterprise Oil at 5207 N. Middlebrook Pike...

Sanofi-aventis announced today that it has completed its acquisition of 100% of Chattanooga-based Chattem, Inc., which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the sanofi-aventis Group. According to a...

Tom Edd Wilson, president and CEO of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, will speak at the North Hamilton County Council meeting on March 18. Wilson will discuss the council’s rebranding...

Assistant District Attorney General Kevin Allen gives his closing arguments Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 in the first-degree murder trial of Jerry Romell Gray in Knox County Criminal Court Division...

"A KFD spokesman said the tank is believed to contain 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of an undetermined type of petroleum product." A 2-3000 gal tank on Middlebrook Pike would be the smallest tank...

Palin will be taking the witness stand.The former Alaska governor and 2008 running mate of Sen. John McCain will testify in U.S. District Court next month when University of Tennessee student David...

Assistant District Attorney General Kevin Allen will lose a week's pay for what Nichols said was his confession to driving drunk in Oak Ridge on Feb....

"A KFD spokesman said the tank is believed to contain 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of an undetermined type of petroleum product." A 2-3000 gal tank on Middlebrook Pike would be the smallest tank...

The school system "is working closely with the Pigeon Forge Police Department" in the probe, according to a prepared statement released by the school...

WASHINGTON — Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said today he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of...

WASHINGTON — Mortgage rates held below the 5 percent threshold for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, weeks before a government program that has been keeping rates low is scheduled...

The Knoxville Fire Department is fighting a fire in an oil tank at the fuel depot on North Middlebrook Pike. Westbound Middlebrook is closed to traffic near the depot. The depot is located near...

OAK RIDGE - Two masked men reportedly invaded a home this morning, assaulted one occupant and threatened the other at gunpoint, Oak Ridge Police Capt. Mike Uher...

Palin, former Alaska governor and running mate to Republican Sen. John McCain in his 2008 bid for the White House, will testify in U.S. District Court in Knoxville next month when University of...

Doug Jordan with the Bell County Sheriff's Department told WYMT-TV in Hazard officers charged 40-year-old Noal Ward on Wednesday with trafficking an alcoholic beverage in a dry territory and unlawful...

MEMPHIS - Charles Turner Harrison has been institutionalized since putting a 9mm pistol to the back of his mother's head in 1984, pulling the trigger and then telling police he thought he could...

CAMDEN, Tenn. - The attorney for a woman who was shot to death at a West Tennessee interstate highway rest stop says his client had reached a divorce settlement with her...

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.., said Wednesday he believes Senate negotiators are close to a bipartisan agreement over a new set of financial industry...

Shares of the Franklin-based hospital chain rose 21 percent on Wednesday to $29 per share after reports that the company was in buyout talks with Bain Capital, one of several private investment firms...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — In his first year as CEO of Eastman Chemical Co., James Rogers received compensation valued at $3.5 million, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in...

WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits slipped last week, the latest sign the employment picture is slowly...

In his darkest moments after the New Year's Day arrest of senior leader Tyler Smith and three of his Tennessee teammates, Bruce Pearl didn't know what to expect. In his gut, Pearl knew that Smith...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville opens its arms to the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament today — and hopes the tens of thousands of visiting...

With all due respect, this constant "it's going to rain" coverage when the forecast suggests less than 50% chance of rain is making it hard to avoid the conclusion that ya'll are either...

BRISTOL, Tenn. — While Bristol Motor Speedway officials are fretting that Bluff City’s new speed cameras on U.S. Highway 11E might upset and alienate unsuspecting race visitors, city officials...

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend key pieces of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care...

Tennessee's Wayne Chism takes a break during NCAA college basketball practice on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee will play LSU...

Despite winning five more games than any SEC program the past five seasons, Tennessee hasn't won the conference tournament since 1979. Nine programs have won it since UT, and one of those -- South...

Southeastern Conference basketball fans. Even if Tennessee -- which begins its SEC tourney run this afternoon at 3:15 EST against LSU -- wins every game possible the rest of the year it will play but...

Anthony Johnson scored 34 of his career-high 42 points in the second half, leading Montana back from a 22-point deficit and into the NCAA tournament with a 66-65 win over Weber State on Wednesday...

LT and Favre? Tomlinson to visit MINNEAPOLIS - LaDainian Tomlinson is coming to Minnesota for a visit, and the Vikings believe he could be a good fit. Tomlinson is scheduled to meet with coach...

A Franklin man was arraigned Wednesday on charges that he waited for his estranged wife to show up at an Interstate 40 rest stop just west of the Tennessee River, then shot and stabbed her to death. ...

Tennessee State University's accreditation is at risk this year unless it proves professors adequately test students, administrators make results-driven decisions and instructors have the right...

A new bill that would let handgun owners take their weapons into any bar or restaurant in Tennessee has started to make its way through the legislature, setting up another possible showdown over gun...

I-75 northbound in Loudon County near mile marker 79 is closed right now for an accident that was reported at 6:20 am. THP dispatchers say Lifestar is having to land on the interstate and the crash...

MONA NAIR 6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A Knoxville firefighter is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack on the job. Captain Robert Roche was at the scene of a house fire on Virginia...

KODAK - Almost $400,000 has been raised by Sevier County native Dolly Parton and her business ventures for the Friends of the Smokies group during the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's 75th...

The county is asking well owners - even those who no longer use their wells - to register in an online database so that public health officials can quickly notify people if an emergency threatens the...

A LaFollette police officer was suspended without pay Wednesday for allegedly hitting a man over the head with a pistol and threatening to kill him during a fracas over a card...

PIGEON FORGE - Partly shut down for weeks after a rockslide, all lanes of U.S. 441 in Sevier County will be open for the next several days ahead of another phase of repair...

A local abstinence-centered sex education program is lamenting the impending loss of a federal grant that would force it to scale back its offerings in East Tennessee school...