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  • Man charged with break-in at deputys home

    A home burglary and stolen gun landed an Hawkins County man in jail. Investigators say Dustin Alan Caldwell broke into the home of a Hawkins County deputy while the deputy and his family were on vacation. When the family arrived home, Deputy Rusty Ferrell realized his "Glock 45 caliber service weapon" was missing. He called the sheriff's department, reported the burglary and ...

  • Cocke Co. school awarded grant for new pipes

    (WBIR, Hartford) Governor Bill Haslam visited Cocke County Tuesday as part of the continuing effort to modernize Tennessee. Grassy Fork Elementary School received $500,000 to install pipes that will run from Newport into the school. Before now, the school was using well water as its source, which can have pollutants in it, risking a student's heath. Leaders say the new pipes are taking a ...

  • Update No serious injuries in West Knox I-40 crash

    A Knoxville Police Department spokesperson says no one was seriously hurt during a late-morning crash along I-640W near I-40W in West Knoxville. The wreck happened Tuesday at I-640 Westbound near I-40. It involved a semi-truck and a sedan. KPD said the Nissan Sentra hit a large puddle of water, hydroplaned and went underneath the trailer portion of the semi-truck that was traveling west. The ...

  • AUDIO Pilot Flying J fraud victim talks guilty pleas

    pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal case tied to the on-going fraud investigation into the company. The development marks a total of five guilty pleas in the case. Kevin Wallace Clark was among the three who pleaded guilty Tuesday. Clark handled an account for W.N. Morehouse Truck Line in Nebraska, the same company featured in ...

  • UT trustees will consider fracking proposal

    The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in October will take up a plan to lease the natural gas rights on the 8,600-acre Cumberland Forest in Morgan and Scott counties. The board will hear details of the plan before the university goes to the State Building Commission with a contract with a private company for the gas drilling, UT President Joe DiPietro said in a message Friday to ...


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Movie Review

The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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  • Crash involving semi slows traffic in West Knoxville

    A crash a little before noon Tuesday created delays for some drivers in West Knoxville. The wreck happened at I-640 Westbound near I-40. It involved a semi-truck and a sedan. A 10News viewer reported waiting in traffic for an hour. By 1:00pm, crews had cleared the accident scene. At this time, there is no information on possible injuries of the drivers involved in the ...

  • Four 18-wheelers van Jaguar crash on I-75

    A multi-vehicle crash involving four 18-wheelers, a mini-van and Jaguar car shut-down all lanes of Interstate 75 South in Kentucky Tuesday morning. The wreck happened around 7:30 a.m. at milemarker 1 near the Tennessee/Kentucky state line. Deputies on-scene told ...

  • Campbell mayor quashes email that animal center director to be reinstated tonight

    The Campbell County mayor has no plans to reinstate embattled animal shelter director Betty Crumley during a meeting tonight in LaFollette, officials ...

  • Knoxville Frontier flight bomb threat suspect officially charged

    (Denver, AP) A Colorado man who acted nervously and told a flight attendant there was a bomb in his backpack on a flight from Knoxville, Tennessee to Denver has been charged in federal court. Mark Michael Bote of Thornton was arrested Friday after the Frontier Airlines flight landed. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that the 23-year-old has been charged with giving a false report. ...

  • UPDATE Three additional PilotFlying J employees plead guilty

    (Knoxville, WBIR) Three additional Pilot/Flying J employees pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal case tied to the on-going fraud investigation into the company. Kevin Wallace Clark, Jay Stinnett and Holly Radford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Clark faces five years in prison, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine along with restitution. Stinnett faces 20 years ...

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