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Tennessees deficit up to $3 million for year

Tennessee's athletic department is expecting a budget deficit between $2 million and $3 million this year. That's a drop from $3.98 million a year ago according to a review at the university's board of trustees meeting Wednesday. The athletic department cut its 2012-13 budget to $99 million from $105.9 million. But revenue is expected to be no more than $97 million. University ...
3 arrested after deputies find crack marijuana at Knox County home

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Three people associated with the Bloods gang were arrested Tuesday after investigators found drugs at a Knox County home. Following an investigation by the Knox County Sheriff's Office's Narcotics Unit, investigators and SWAT team members served a search warrant at a home on Sunset Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Once inside, they found 1.7 pounds of marijuana, crack ...
Man sentenced to 20 years for robbing bank with homemade bomb

A man who pleaded guilty to threatening bank tellers with a homemade bomb during a bank robbery has been sentenced to serve 20 years in ...
Faith-based group links low-income people with legal services

A faith-based Tennessee group is looking to help link people who don't have access to legal help with attorneys who work pro bono. While several programs like it already exist, the Access to Justice Commission says this approach helps create a bridge for people. They say it's because their program will reach people at places they already go for help,at churches and other religious ...
App ranks Knoxville as top city for 4th of July activities

Knoxville showed it's the best at showing off its red white and blue, according to the social media app Foursquare. According to data collected by Foursquare, Knoxville rated the highest of any American city for Fourth of July activities. From fireworks to parades and everything in between, Knoxvillians will have the most to do this Independence Day. Texas might be the most patriotic ...

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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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Knoxville 6-year-old asked to compete in worlds largest martial arts competition

"I'm so proud of him. I really am. His mother and I support him 100%," said Mark Mitchell, who is also a sensei, or instructor, at Arts of the ...
Two people shot on Amanda Street in Knoxville

A Pittsburgh police officer talks to witnesses Wednesday afternoon outside a hair salon where police believe a confrontation started that led to a shooting on Amanda Street in ...
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 ...
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 ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

Hassan Rouhani

Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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New sulfur-based battery outperforms traditional lithium-ion technology

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries.

"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this week in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Scientists have been excited about the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries for decades, but long-lasting, large-scale versions for commercial applications have proven elusive. Researchers were stuck with a catch-22 created by the battery's use of liquid electrolytes: On one hand, the liquid helped conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. The downside, however, was that the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.

The ORNL team overcame these barriers by first synthesizing a never-before-seen class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode. ...