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  • Scouts decorate Knoxville cemetery with flags

    KNOXVILLE (WATE) - This Memorial Day weekend across the country thousands of people will visit cemeteries to remember those who died in service to America. On Saturday, our state and national cemeteries were decorated by Scouts. Hundreds of local Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts decorated the Knoxville National Cemetery with over 8,000 flags. For these young people, it was an ...

  • TN compounders steroid sickens patients

    Six months after state officials found multiple violations at a West Tennessee compounding pharmacy but did not shut it down, the pharmacy is the apparent source of infections in two states. Main Street Family Pharmacy LLC in Newbern recalled all its sterile products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday, after methylprednisolone acetate it made was linked to seven cases of ...

  • Gov. Haslam honors fallen Tenn. soldiers families

    Joyce Ward said her son planned to continue in the military for the rest of his life, but he died April 6 after a car bomb struck his patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Ward was 24 when he was killed while on his way to deliver donated textbooks to a school. "My son is at peace, so I don't have to worry about him," Joyce Ward said. "My prayers ...

  • 6 Things to Know Today

    Cool kickoff: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will help kick off Dollywood's Barbecue & Bluegrass festival at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. today at Dollywood's Celebrity Theater. Admission is free with park admission. The band will also perform 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Check out an interview with Skaggs ...

  • Tenn. compounding pharmacy investigated in multistate outbreak

    Methylprednisolone acetate, or MPA, is the same medicine implicated in last fall's deadly, multistate meningitis outbreak, though Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Dr. John Dreyzehner said there's no indication this instance "approaches the severity" of last fall's outbreaks. Affected patients have seen localized infections, such as skin abscesses, at the ...


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The Graduate [DVD]

The Graduate [DVD]

As is true with many great films that are irrevocably connected to their time and place, certain elements of Mike Nichol's The Graduate have not aged terribly well. Simon & Garfunkel's folksy soundtrack has a certain datedness, particularly in the way N ... ...

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  • Workshop offers intro to nonprofit fundraising

    It is designed specifically for groups that have never developed a fundraising plan or calendar. It provides an overview of the process of strategically thinking through the components of a fundraising plan. These include taking stock in your organization's assets, developing a case statement, setting goals, identifying funding partners and preparing a fundraising plan and ...

  • Early Knox property appeals down tax rate to drop

    The number of residents and business owners protesting newly assessed values of their property this spring was a little more than half what it was four years ago, something Knox County officials say is proof the reappraisal process was much ...

  • Knoxville veterans who died with little honored by many

    Photos by Michael Patrick/News Sentinel Three veterans whose remains had been unclaimed were laid to rest Friday with help from the Dignity Memorial and the Missing in America Project. The three Vietnam-era veterans were buried at East Tennessee Veterans Cemetery with full military ...

  • American Homes 4 Rent buys dozens of Knoxville properties

    That may be just a start. An employee of the Blount County Register of Deeds said the company has purchased more than a dozen homes in that county since early April, and a local broker is scouting out more acquisitions for the ...

  • 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 ...

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