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    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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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