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  • Olympic swimmer inspires kids to sign up for swim team

    Kids from around Knoxville got the chance to meet an Olympian and learn more about a summer swimming program. Sign ups for Emerald Youth's swim team's seventh season started Tuesday. Gold medal winning swimmer Davis Tarwater spoke to the kids about his own swimming experiences and helped register the kids for the team. Tarwater says he hopes he can help encourage kids to get ...

  • Rotary Club names Teachers of the Year

    Some local teachers have received recognition for their work to make a difference in the classroom. The Rotary Club of Knoxville handed out its annual Outstanding Teachers of the Year awards. This year's big winners are Karen Binger, a fifth grade teacher at Blue Grass Elementary, and Wanda Lacey, an AP calculus teacher at Farragut High. "I know both of them very well. Mrs. ...

  • HomeGrown Kim Williams Country Hall of Fame songwriter

    Kim Williams has made a great living doing what he loves. "The fun is just sitting down and creating something out of nothing," he said. And, his life plays like a good country song. "I grew up 14 miles from nowhere. There ain't nothing to do, but pick and grin." He learned to play guitar at age nine, but music wasn't his first love. "To be an astronaut, ...

  • Teen charged with stealing electronics from school

    A teenager is in custody after deputies say he stole electronics, including Apple computers, from a school in Kentucky. The Whitley County Sheriff's Office says someone broke into the Whitley County Alternative School Saturday and Monday. Deputies say about $10,000 worth of electronics were taken. Tuesday, they recovered the stolen items and arrested 18-year-old Charles Helton. ...

  • Lynns Law signed into effect by Haslam

    J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Department of Children’s Services case manager Catherine Oteiza talks with Gov. Bill Haslam at the Caryville City Hall on Tuesday during a signing of ';Lynn’s Law,'; which makes abandonment of an intellectually disabled adult a ...


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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead

George A. Romero has given the British zombie parody Shaun of the Dead a ringing endorsement and even invited cowriter and star Simon Pegg to play a cameo role in his upcoming Land of the Dead (the third sequel to 1968's Night of the Living Dead). In a way, I' ... ...

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  • Downtown Knoxville library to close for HVAC repairs

    The cooling tower is the last piece of system equipment needing replacement for the at the building located at 500 W. Church Ave. Other repairs to the library's HVAC system were made in previous ...

  • Councilman questions details of Rogeros bond debt plan

    The city of Knoxville could take on $31.4 million in new bond debt, according to Councilman George Wallace, but he would like to know if the proposed plan to spend it is the ...

  • Local schools tornado protocol mirrors Oklahoma

    So many stories are coming out of Moore, Oklahoma, about the heroic actions of teachers trying to keep their students safe. In February 2012, teachers in the Tellico Plains school system were concerned they might find themselves in a similar situation. Severe weather began to threaten the area shortly after school got out for the day, and many students and neighbors had to take refuge inside ...

  • Okla. tornadoes bring memories to 02 Mossy Grove victims

    Sue Jones looked through a large, black scrapbook Tuesday, with the words engraved "Mossy Grove Tornado." "When it came, my husband said we better get in," she recalled the night of November 10, 2002. "It was really eerie. There was no wind, but you could smell this earth." Jones lost her home after the overnight EF3 tornado struck the small Morgan County ...

  • No charges filed in Gibbs dead animal prank case closed

    (WBIR- Knoxville, TN) The Knox County Sheriff's Office has announced there will be no charges filed in a prank at Gibbs High School where dead animals were littered throughout the campus. Officials say they looked into several leads before the decision was made not to prosecute. Last ...

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