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  • Emergency crews respond to Anderson Co. school bus wreck

    (WBIR- Anderson County) Anderson County dispatchers have confirmed crews responded to a school bus accident on Johnson Gap near Dutch Valley Road Tuesday just after 8:00 a.m. There is no official word on any injuries. Few details are known at the time of this posting. 10News has a crew en route. Stay with 10News and wbir.com for more on this developing ...

  • George Korda Chipman Street sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks

    In this October 22, 2008 photo, Gary Christian and Hugh Newsom share a moment of silence as they look at the demolished Chipman Street house where their children were killed in a brutal double murder in January of 2007. Waste Connections destroyed the Chipman Street house where Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were raped and tortured. (J. MILES CARY/KNOXVILLE NEWS ...

  • Rebar finishing will add 40 jobs in Knox County

    KNOXVILLE (AP) - Another 40 jobs are coming to Knox County as Gerdau expands its steel reinforcement bar plant. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development says the new facility to apply finishing services to rebar now made at the company's Lonsdale mill. TDEC Commissioner Bill Hagerty and Gerdau officials announced the expansion on Monday, saying the new facility will ...

  • District attorney Pain pill arrest surge jamming area jails

    KINGSTON -- Three out of the four county jails in his judicial district are overcrowded, 9th Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson said, and a big part of the problem is a growing population of women being locked up for pain pill-related ...

  • 4 things to know today

    Budget talks: Knoxville City Council will hold its annual legislative budget hearings with city departments all day today, starting at 8:30 a.m., in the City County Building's Main Assembly Room. Then, a public hearing on the proposed budget will be held at 5 ...


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Movie Review

Blood & Wine

"Blood & Wine" is director Bob Rafelson's fifth collaboration with actor Jack Nicholson, and it is certainly one of the least. A slowly-plotted, mostly uninvolving modern-day Miami film noir, it is also the third (slightly belated) installment in what Rafelson terms an "informal trilogy" that also includes "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972). On the surface, "Blood & ... ...

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  • New street named for former educator KCDC leader Juanita Cannon

    A new street to be built by the city of Knoxville is being named for Juanita Cannon, a retired longtime educator who later chaired the board of directors of Knoxville's Community Development ...

  • Gov. Haslam signs bill lowering sales tax on food

    The bill, which goes into effect in July, reduces the state portion of the sales tax on groceries from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. The legislation helps all Tennesseans, Haslam ...

  • At least 51 dead in Okla. twister including at least 20 children

    A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph killed at least 51 people Monday afternoon during 40 terrifying minutes of destruction across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs. CNN and NBC are both reporting that of those killed, at least 20 were children. The state medical examiner's office confirmed the number of deaths and said the toll was expected to rise. At least 70 ...

  • Authorities arrest Cocke Co. man accused of sexually assaulting teens

    The Cocke County Sheriff's Office confirms that the man accused of sexual assaulting two teenagers has been taken into custody without incident. On Sunday night, a 15-year-old girl told Cocke County deputies at Tennova Medical Center's emergency room that Richard Sullivan, 40, sexually assaulted her. Deputies said those allegations also involved a 13-year-old, who authorities said ...

  • Mosquitoes starting to bite in East Tennessee

    A wet spring and climbing temperatures mean mosquitoes are making their comeback to East Tennessee. The Knox County Health Department is already working to stay ahead of the seasonal problem. Earlier this month, the health department started setting traps all around the county to test the bugs for West Nile Virus. So far, each of the tests have come back with only negative results. In ...

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