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  • Bean Station mourns prays for shooting victims

    Community members in the Grainger County town of Bean Station gathered for a vigil to pray for the victims of the quadruple shooting at Down Home Pharmacy Friday night. The police tape is gone, and traffic is back to normal near the small pharmacy where four people were shot this week. But hundreds showed up with heavy hearts to listen to local pastors offer words of grief for the two men who ...

  • Destination Imagination brings creative kids to Knoxville

    JILL MCNEAL 6 News Anchor/Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) - You may have seen the groups of kids in matching T-shirts walking around downtown Knoxville. They're part of the Destination Imagination global finals taking place on the UT campus and at the convention center. Destination Imagination teaches kids elementary through college the creative process from imagination to innovation. "If ...

  • Bean Station a reminder to pharmacists of everyday dangers

    News of the fatal shooting in Bean Station Thursday spread quickly throughout East Tennessee's pharmacy community. It was a horrible reminder for some of the risks they take everyday working behind the counter. On a chilly January evening five years ago, Harrison Kitzrow was locking up for the night at Lee's Total Health Pharmacy when he had to ask a straggling customer to wait ...

  • Cosby man nabbed on drug charges

    Cocke County authorities on Friday arrested a Cosby man, seized 20 guns, $13,000 in cash and five vehicles in the culmination of a year-old undercover narcotics investigation, officials ...

  • State of Tenn. honors soldiers killed in action

    The State of Tennessee paid tribute Friday to three soldiers killed in action. Governor Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam joined Veterans Affairs in honoring Sergeant Jacob Schwallie from Clarksville and Private First Class Glenn Schoenmann, a prisoner of war who reportedly died in December of 1950. Tennessee also honored Staff Sergeant Chris Ward, who lived in Oak Ridge shortly before ...


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Movie Review

The Killer (Die xue shuang xiong)

It is not without a truckload of irony that the two men--one a discontented assassin, the other a determined cop--find out for the first time that they have something in common while pointing guns at each other's heads. It is also not without similar amounts of irony that these two men, who stand on opposite sides of the law, eventually discover they are more like each other than anyone else, and ... ...

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  • Paducah plant closes after DOE pulls proposal 1000 lose jobs

    More than 1,000 people in western Kentucky are now looking for jobs after the US Department of Energy pulled a proposal that would extend operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Managers planned to close the plant last year, but it saw new life when TVA asked it to enrich depleted uranium for the power company. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear called Friday's announcement ...

  • Gibbs High School celebrates 100th anniversary

    Gibbs High School celebrated its centennial anniversary on Friday. Graduates new and old gathered to visit, learn more about their school's history, and see what the building looks like today. One grad says over the years, things have changed. "Our lunches cost five cents and we had a cafeteria and we went through the line and had just a vegetable plate," said Willie Clapp ...

  • Girls face felony charges for vandalizing elementary school

    (WBIR- Rockwood, Tn) Three girls are now facing charges in connection with the vandalism of an elementary school. Rockwood Police Chief Bill Stinnett says the girls ages 11, 12 and 14 broke into Ridge View Elementary early Friday morning. Police say they broke two iPads, poured a soft drink into a copy machine, threw paint over more than a dozen computers and monitors, and wrote on $3,000 ...

  • Marijuana guns found in home of suspected Cocke Co. drug dealer

    A Cocke County man has been arrested after sheriff's deputies say they purchased marijuana from him during an undercover investigation. The Cocke County Sheriff's Office says they arrested Lemuel Garver after an investigation spanning nearly a year. They say Garver was part of a larger conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs in Cocke County. When deputies searched his home, they ...

  • Furloughs for park police ending early

    Furloughs for US park police, including those at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are ending early. The National Park Service says it saved enough money from three days of furloughs and other cost-cutting measures. The furloughs, which were a result of forced federal spending cuts earlier this year, are set to end June ...

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