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  • Tennessee sends help to Oklahoma

    A number of Tennesseans are on their way to Oklahoma to help with search and rescue and recovery efforts after Monday's devastating tornado. Early Tuesday, a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle left Chattanooga with a Knoxville volunteer for the 13 hour drive to Moore. Once there, they will provide hot meals and other relief supplies to tornado victims. Louie Crowe from Knoxville and ...

  • Sheriffs Office now leading Gibbs High dead animal prank investigation

    KNOXVILLE -- The investigation into a senior prank at Gibbs High School involving dead animals has been turned over to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, authorities ...

  • Carson-Newman ministry receives $20K grant

    The Jefferson City-based organization, which operates a home-repair ministry, a homeless shelter and a food and clothing bank, was one of 60 organizations across the country to receive the ...

  • Steel Plate Fabricators named Freedom Award finalist

    Knoxville metal shop Steel Plate Fabricators is one of two East Tennessee companies to be named a finalist for 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom ...

  • UPDATE Medical examiner 24 dead in Oklahoma twister

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven ...


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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

A decade ago, Oliver Stone was the premiere cinematic chronicler of the recent American past. No filmmaker better nailed the anxieties and failed dreams of the 1960s and, more importantly, the remorse that followed, than Stone did in Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of Ju ... ...

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  • Tennessee sends search and rescue team to Oklahoma

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis. Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and ...

  • Oklahoma woman reunited with her dog after both were buried in destroyed home

    Amidst all the devastation after a huge tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, there are signs of hope, and happiness. Barbara Garcia and her dog were huddled in the bathroom of her home when the tornado hit. The home collapsed around them, but Barbara survived. But in the confusion after the walls fell down, she and the dog were separated. Hours later, while Barbara was being interviewed by ...

  • Photo Gallery Moore Oklahoma tornado

    On May 20, 2013, a devastating tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. The storm leveled schools, businesses, and homes. At least 24 were killed and hundreds ...

  • Updated conservatorship statute effective July 1

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law revisions to the state conservatorship statute. The law allows the court to appoint a conservator to manage the assets of a person a judge finds unable to handle his or her own affairs. State Rep. Andrew Farmer, a Sevierville Republican, ...

  • Anderson Co. bus lands on side students injured

    (WBIR- Anderson County) The Anderson County Sheriff's Office tells 10News that five students received minor injuries when a school bus crashed on the way to classes Tuesday morning. Anderson County dispatchers say the accident happened on Johnson Gap Road near Dutch Valley Road just after 8:00 a.m. The Anderson County School Superintendent tells 10News some of the injured students ...

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