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  • Niota lays off 7 workers closes library as insurance crisis continues

    (WBIR- Niota) The city of Niota is laying off seven workers as a crisis over insurance coverage continues. The city's mayor, Lois Preece, said at a meeting Monday that city leaders decided to lay off three police department workers, two street department workers, as well as two other city officials. The city's library will also shut down. The city has restored auto insurance coverage ...

  • WIVK listeners roll the dice for chance at $1 million

    WIVK listeners had a chance to win $1 million at the Million Dollar Mystery Voice Roll-Off on Monday evening at the Grill at Highlands Row. Fifty-six people had the chance to roll six dice and hope for six WIVK logos. Listeners became eligible for the contest by calling into the station everyday at differed times to hear a "mystery voice." If caller number seven identified the voice, ...

  • Philadephia City Council meets in elementary school after city hall collapse

    (WBIR- Philadelphia) The Philadelphia City Council held its first meeting Monday after Mother Nature forced them out of city hall. The city council has been without a home since an outer wall and part of the roof collapsed earlier this month. The mayor suspects the blame for that damage lies with heavy rain. Monday, the council held its monthly meeting in the cafeteria of Philadelphia ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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