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  • Officer performs CPR in near-drowning incident

    (WBIR- Knoxville) Officers responded to a near-drowning call Saturday night at Crossroads West Apartments off Brentway Circle at Lonas Drive. Officer Sharon Terrell arrived on the scene to find 22-year-old Ansumana Fofana unresponsive with no pulse. Terrell immediately started performing CPR and continued until EMTs arrived on the scene. Fofana was transported to UT Medical Center. Officers ...

  • New Bearden butcher shop offers custom cuts experience

    What do you know about the meat on your plate? If you got your cut from William Caritheres the answer could be 'a lot.' Carithers and his wife Samantha opened Willy's Butcher Shop on Homberg Drive last week. As a professional butcher, William can school customers on harder to find cuts and how to prepare them. But he can also tell shoppers what farm their meat came from, what it ...

  • McMinn sheriff named TN Officer of the Year

    (WBIR- McMinn County) The American Legion has named McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy Tennessee's law enforcement officer of the year. Local leaders nominated Sheriff Guy earlier this year for his hard work to keep the community safe and improve the area's quality of life. Sheriff Guy has worked in law enforcement for more than 20 years, along with positions in emergency services and in ...

  • Community remembers Scott Co. teen who collapsed suddenly

    Family, friends and even strangers paid their final respects to an East Tennessee teenager on Monday evening. Funeral services were held in Scott County for 17-year-old Shadara Douglas. She died ...

  • Residents blast Loudon County Commission over codes zoning rules

    An angry crowd of Loudon County residents, many of them farmers, confronted county commissioners Monday night over what they described as heavy-handed enforcement of codes and zoning ...


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Movie Review

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Not since the release of Roman Polanskis angry, blood-drenched adaptation of Macbeth (1971) in the wake of the Manson murders, Altamont, and Vietnam has a cinematic adaptation of a Shakespearean tragedy felt so timely as Ralph Fienness Coriolanus. The play, which is more than ... ...

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  • Court records Knox traffic stop unveils immigrant smuggling operation

    Mario Garcia-Duarte and Guadalupe Orellana-Morel are charged with smuggling undocumented immigrants from Mexico at the behest of a so-called coyote identified in court records only as "Wachon." Coyote is the term used for Mexican citizens who charge thousands of dollars to ferret illegal immigrants out of Mexico and into the ...

  • ETSU scholars get $2.2M for drug abuse prevention

    JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - East Tennessee State University has received a more-than-$2.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to launch a research program aimed at battling prescription drug abuse. According to the school, a team of researchers will study whether improving communication among health care providers, pharmacists and patients can reduce the illicit use of ...

  • Another protest filed on $22B Y-12Pantex contract

    Nuclear Production Partners, the Babcock & Wilcox-led team that earlier lost its bid for the $22 billion government contract to manage the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants, has filed a new protest on the contract award, B&W announced Monday ...

  • Flooding ruins new gym at Del Rio Elementary School

    A Cocke County school's gymnasium floor is a total loss after a pipe problem led to major flooding. The gym floor at Del Rio Elementary School isn't even a year old. But after flooding on June 11, the school is looking at $75,000 to $100,000 worth of damages. Cocke County Schools Supervisor Casey Kelley said the source of the flooding comes from a 90 degree fitting on a pipe that ...

  • Newport boy mauled by dog preps for ear replacement surgery

    In August 2011, a group of dogs running loose in a Cocke County neighborhood mauled a 10-year-old boy. Brandon Williams of Newport suffered severe injuries to his arm and had both of his ears ripped off during the attack. In the nearly two years since the attack, Williams has undergone a few surgeries and a great deal of physical therapy. He has also dealt with family tragedies with the ...

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