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  • 6-month-old shot at home on Alcoa Hwy.

    Officers are investigating the shooting of a six-month-old child, the Knox County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. It happened Wednesday afternoon at a home on Alcoa Hwy. The child has been transported to UT Medical Center. We have a crew on the way and will have updates as soon as they are ...

  • Parents arrested after toddler found wandering on train tracks

    A Roane County couple is facing charges after their toddler was found wandering on train tracks in Rockwood. Police say a witness says the two-year-old boy on the tracks wearing nothing but a diaper. The witness grabbed the child just before a train came through and took him to a nearby Dollar General store, where the boy's mother, Rahab Jaramillo, took the child. The witness then alerted ...

  • 3 arrested after marijuana crack cocaine found in home

    (WBIR- Knoxville) Three people were arrested Tuesday afternoon after officer found crack cocaine and marijuana in a Knoxville home. The Knox County Sheriff's Office says they obtained a warrant to search the home on Sunset Avenue in East Knoxville after a six-month investigation. Inside the home, officers say they found 1.7 pounds of marijuana, crack cocaine, digital scales and packing ...

  • Blount man gets life in prison for killing robbing friend

    A Blount County man convicted in April of killing and robbing his friend in 2010 will be 91 before he has the chance to walk out of prison a free man, officials ...

  • Online extra Jay Stinnett affidavit conversation

    John Freeman , Jay Stinnett, and Scott Wombold participated in a meeting that involved all of Pilot's Regional and National Sales Directors, including Hanscomb, Ralenkotter, Mosher, and CHS-2. During this consensually recorded meeting John Freeman and Mark Hazelwood discussed the potential for a new internal Pilot two-tiered pricing structure that would impose higher prices on less ...


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Movie Review

Seven [DVD]

Seven [DVD]

David Fincher's Seven is a imminently disturbing film, an unsettling serial killer police procedural that, for two hours, gets under your skin viscerally until it delivers the final blow with an unexpected ending that is as bold and shocking as it is terribly logical. Aesthetically, the film is a triumph of visuals, of lighting and shadows, of set design and camera angles that create a ... ...

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  • Fiat-Chrysler CEO hints Tennessee could be home for headquarters

    Would Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne seriously consider moving the combined company's headquarters to Tennessee once the merger of the two automakers is completed? Speculation that Marchionne would pull Fiat out of Italy or the firmly entrenched Chrysler out of its longtime Auburn Hills, Mich., home has been swirling in the auto industry and economic development circles since ...

  • Tenn. company uses 3-D printing to save ducks life

    Engineers at NovaCopy Inc. didn't think saving the life of a disabled duck would be a project they would encounter during the rise of 3-D printing. But this week, Joel Graves, a 3-D printing engineer at NovaCopy, produced the prototype for a mold that will be used to create a prosthetic foot for a duck named Buttercup. It's just one of a myriad of uses for 3-D printing, which is ...

  • New group prepares for fight over drug compounders

    WASHINGTON -- Battle lines on legislation to regulate drug compounders became clearer Tuesday as a new group lobbying on the issue announced its formation. Called the Working Group on Pharmaceutical Safety, it will work to protect the interests of a handful of drug companies that want to prohibit compounders from making drugs similar to ones they make under Food and Drug Administration ...

  • Haslams chief deputy Claude Ramsey to retire

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam says chief deputy Claude Ramsey is retiring at the end of August to spend more time with his family in Chattanooga. The Republican governor said in a news release on Wednesday that the 70-year-old Ramsey has been integral to his administration on key initiatives that include civil service reform, economic development efforts, workforce development ...

  • NRC proposing $70K fine against TVA for Watts Bar violations

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing a $70,000 fine against the Tennessee Valley Authority for violations related to one of its East Tennessee nuclear plants. According to a NRC news release on Wednesday, the violations have to do with the commercial grade dedication program during the construction of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2. The NRC requires certain ...

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