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Semi-truck sedan crash 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. ...
Toddler 2 found playing alone on railroad tracks parents charged

ROCKWOOD -- The parents of a 2-year-old boy found playing alone on railroad tracks wearing only a diaper were arrested Monday and charged with aggravated child abuse and ...
Pilot Flying J guilty plea Former regional sales manager admits to mail fraud

Clark worked as regional sales manager for Knoxville-based Pilot from 2008 to 2011. According to federal documents filed in April, Clark worked remotely and lived in Lee's Summit, Mo., a suburb of Kansas ...
Oak Ridge mom pleads in case of drinking game with juveniles

KINGSTON -- An Oak Ridge woman with an extensive criminal record has pleaded guilty to two counts of violation of the state's Social Host Law by allegedly playing "beer pong," a drinking game, with her underage son and three other ...
Bonnaroo stats 6000 THP work hours 17 wrecks 36 moving violations

Festival goers walk the lanes at the campsite before gates open at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Manchester. (Helen Comer / DNJ ...

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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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New technology TWRA catching wild hogs with smartphones

How many wildlife agents does it take to catch a wild hog? One, under a new remote system in use by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Richard Kirk of TWRA said the new method alerts an on-call agent, who can watch feral hogs in real time and spring the trap by pushing a virtual button on a computer or smartphone from miles away. Agents set up a corral that is 35 feet in diameter. When ...
East Knoxville cookout peppered with gunfire

Officers were called at 10:45 p.m. to parking lot "H" at Walter P. Taylor Homes at Olive Street because of gunfire, said Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell ...
Voter ID Debate TN to review proof of citizenship ruling

Tennessee election officials plan to review a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says states can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so. The justices' 7-2 ruling on Monday complicates efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in the country illegally. Tennessee passed a ...
2 shot at East Knoxville barbeque

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Two men received minor injuries during a shooting at a cookout in East Knoxville Monday night. Victims Jerome Lee, 32, and William Geter, 37, were in parking lot H of the Walter P. Taylor Homes when they said gunfire broke out. Both men had minor wounds and were taken to Tennova Hospital by a friend. The victims told police the injuries were only an ...
Firefighters battle West Knox home fire twice

KNOXVILLE -- Firefighters this morning doused flames for a second time at a West Knox County home where one firefighter sustained a minor burn on his ...

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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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Paihia Beach Resort And Spa, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Driving along the main coastal highway, on the edge of the main township of Paihia, in the heart of the ...

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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. ...