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  • UPDATE Medical examiner 24 dead in Oklahoma twister

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven ...

  • Tennessee sends search and rescue team to Oklahoma

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis. Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and ...

  • Oklahoma woman reunited with her dog after both were buried in destroyed home

    Amidst all the devastation after a huge tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, there are signs of hope, and happiness. Barbara Garcia and her dog were huddled in the bathroom of her home when the tornado hit. The home collapsed around them, but Barbara survived. But in the confusion after the walls fell down, she and the dog were separated. Hours later, while Barbara was being interviewed by ...

  • Photo Gallery Moore Oklahoma tornado

    On May 20, 2013, a devastating tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. The storm leveled schools, businesses, and homes. At least 24 were killed and hundreds ...

  • Updated conservatorship statute effective July 1

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law revisions to the state conservatorship statute. The law allows the court to appoint a conservator to manage the assets of a person a judge finds unable to handle his or her own affairs. State Rep. Andrew Farmer, a Sevierville Republican, ...


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Movie Review

Blood & Wine

"Blood & Wine" is director Bob Rafelson's fifth collaboration with actor Jack Nicholson, and it is certainly one of the least. A slowly-plotted, mostly uninvolving modern-day Miami film noir, it is also the third (slightly belated) installment in what Rafelson terms an "informal trilogy" that also includes "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972). On the surface, "Blood & ... ...

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  • Anderson Co. bus lands on side students injured

    (WBIR- Anderson County) The Anderson County Sheriff's Office tells 10News that five students received minor injuries when a school bus crashed on the way to classes Tuesday morning. Anderson County dispatchers say the accident happened on Johnson Gap Road near Dutch Valley Road just after 8:00 a.m. The Anderson County School Superintendent tells 10News some of the injured students ...

  • Anderson school bus crashes 2 students suffer cuts bruises

    CLINTON -- An Anderson County school bus overturned about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Johnson Gap and Dutch Valley roads, injuring two students. The students suffered cuts and bruises and were taken to Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. A third student, with a pre-existing injury, also was taken to the hospital. Bus No. 20 was carrying 43 students to Dutch Valley ...

  • Emergency crews respond to Anderson Co. school bus wreck

    (WBIR- Anderson County) Anderson County dispatchers have confirmed crews responded to a school bus accident on Johnson Gap near Dutch Valley Road Tuesday just after 8:00 a.m. There is no official word on any injuries. Few details are known at the time of this posting. 10News has a crew en route. Stay with 10News and wbir.com for more on this developing ...

  • George Korda Chipman Street sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks

    In this October 22, 2008 photo, Gary Christian and Hugh Newsom share a moment of silence as they look at the demolished Chipman Street house where their children were killed in a brutal double murder in January of 2007. Waste Connections destroyed the Chipman Street house where Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were raped and tortured. (J. MILES CARY/KNOXVILLE NEWS ...

  • Rebar finishing will add 40 jobs in Knox County

    KNOXVILLE (AP) - Another 40 jobs are coming to Knox County as Gerdau expands its steel reinforcement bar plant. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development says the new facility to apply finishing services to rebar now made at the company's Lonsdale mill. TDEC Commissioner Bill Hagerty and Gerdau officials announced the expansion on Monday, saying the new facility will ...

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