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  • Unclaimed Vietnam veterans laid to rest with honors

    Three Vietnam-era veterans were laid to rest Friday with full military honors, years after their deaths. Sergeant Roger Thompson and Private First Class Fred Hall died in January 2010. Private Gary Sharp died in April 2011, but their cremated remains went unclaimed at the East Tennessee Regional Forensic Center. The Missing in America project contacted the medical examiner's office ...

  • Tennova dedicates expanded emergency room

    Tennova's North Knoxville Medical Center dedicated its newly renovated and expanded emergency room on Friday. The emergency room is now a 20-bed facility, up from 16. All treatment rooms received new furnishings and updated, state-of-the-art equipment. The 12-week expansion project cost $720,000. The North Knoxville Medical Center is one of East Tennessee's newest hospitals. It ...

  • Mountaintop removal protestors arrested in downtown Knoxville

    Three people are facing charges after a mountaintop removal protest in downtown Knoxville. Knoxville police say Ricki Draper of Greensboro, North Carolina, Julia Lepping of Louisville, Kentucky, and a teenage boy went to the UBS Wealth Management Offices, which are located in the First Tennessee building, and refused to leave. The three used logging chains and bicycle locks to lock ...

  • Victims in pharmacy shooting were shot execution style

    The ex-cop accused in a shooting spree in a Grainger County pharmacy ordered his victims to get on their knees before he shot them, according to a police report. Jason Bryan Holt, 37, ...

  • TWRA reminds boaters to be safe while enjoying the lake

    This weekend is the unofficial start to the summer boating season, and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wants to remind everyone to be safe. TWRA will be out in full force making sure boaters have the proper identification, life jackets, and other safety equipment. A few reminders if you choose to head out and hit places like Norris Lake this weekend.. Make sure you have a ...


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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen have a special affinity for characters who are dumber than they seem, which is matched only by their affinity for characters who are precisely as dumb as they seem. Burn After Reading, their relentlessly ridiculous screwball follow-up to No Count ... ...

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  • ETSU looking for conference for resurrected football team

    WCYB-TV ETSU welcomed officials from the Southern Conference on campus Thursday. The SoCon presidents will meet next week in Hilton Head, SC to vote on adding ETSU. The Bucs are former SoCon members. They left after dropping their football program in 2003. With the football program restarting in 2015, the SoCon is a likely landing spot. "That's one of the things we are ...

  • Charges dropped against developer accused of fraud

    Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a property developer who was behind several high-profile East Tennessee communities. A federal grand jury indicted Mike Ross of Rarity Properties on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering last November. Those charges were dismissed without prejudice this week. That means the current charges are dropped, but it doesn't ...

  • Report Ex-cop charged in pharmacy shooting shot kneeling victims in the head

    The ex-cop accused in a shooting spree in a Grainger County pharmacy ordered his victims to get on their knees before he shot them, according to a police report. Jason Bryan Holt, 37, ...

  • Vandals break in to Roane Co. elementary school

    (WBIR- Rockwood, Tn) Someone broke into a Roane County school early Friday morning and caused a lot of damage. According to Gary Aytes, Roane County Director of Schools, the alarm was triggered around 1:00 am at Ridge View Elementary School in Rockwood. The vandals emptied drawers, poured soda into a copy machine, threw paint on the floor and computers, and destroyed several iPads and other ...

  • Knox man arrested for violating sex offender registry

    Jerry Steven Helton, 59, who police considered a violent sex offender, is being held at the Knox County Jail on an $8,000 bond on an outstanding ...

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