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  • White Knuckle splits in two amid controversy

    (WBIR - Huntsville) Memorial Day weekend is a time of the year many ATV riders look forward to. Hundreds of riders have arrived to Scott County for the annual 'White Knuckle' ATV festival. Nicole Roshon of Loveland, Ohio said, "This is our third time down here. We come down here because of the variety of trails and mostly every place we go it's not necessarily about the ...

  • Gold Star family members fallen servicemen honored at Governors Memorial Day Ceremony

    Gov. Bill Haslam paid tribute to the memories of Tennessee troops killed in action and to their surviving families as he proclaimed Friday the first Gold Star Family Day in state ...

  • Destination Imagination hosts Global Finals offers interactive learning competitions

    photos by MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL Milan High Red Eye team members get the first look at their invisible ';Phantom of the Opera'; member, who appears to them at the end of the skit, at the Destination Imagination competition Friday. DI is an interactive academic competition held annually in Knoxville that features more than 1,200 teams and 16,500 competitors from more than 15 ...

  • BPV mutual funds pass $100M mark

    In 2011, the company announced the creation of two publicly traded mutual funds -- the BPV Core Diversification Fund and BPV Wealth Preservation ...

  • Families speak out about Bean Station victims

    (WBIR- Bean Station, Tn) As police continued the investigation into the Bean Station shooting, family members spoke out Friday about the victims. The son of a Richard Alexander Sommerville, who was killed in a shooting Thursday at a Bean Station pharmacy, remembered his dad as a lively person and proud grandfather. "If he was in a room or at a party, he was definitely going to be ...


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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen have a special affinity for characters who are dumber than they seem, which is matched only by their affinity for characters who are precisely as dumb as they seem. Burn After Reading, their relentlessly ridiculous screwball follow-up to No Count ... ...

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  • Developing Child on bicycle hit by truck

    Emergency crews are still investigating after a child was hit by a bicycle Friday afternoon on Western Avenue. The accident was reported just after 4:30 pm, on Western at Sullivan Road, right in front of the Third Creek Baptist Church. Officials say the child was hit by a Ryder truck traveling east. There's no word on the child's condition. Western Avenue is down to one lane as of ...

  • Lenoir City grads get botched diplomas

    Some Lenoir City High School students thought there was something that didn't look quite right when they received their diplomas at graduation last ...

  • Closing on EnergySolutions merger

    EnergySolutions and Energy Capital Partners today announced the closing of their merger. EnergySolutions stockholders earlier approved the merger agreement in which they would receive $4.15 cash per share, according to report by the Salt Lake City ...

  • Unclaimed Vietnam veterans laid to rest with honors

    Three Vietnam-era veterans were laid to rest Friday with full military honors, years after their deaths. Sergeant Roger Thompson and Private First Class Fred Hall died in January 2010. Private Gary Sharp died in April 2011, but their cremated remains went unclaimed at the East Tennessee Regional Forensic Center. The Missing in America project contacted the medical examiner's office ...

  • Tennova dedicates expanded emergency room

    Tennova's North Knoxville Medical Center dedicated its newly renovated and expanded emergency room on Friday. The emergency room is now a 20-bed facility, up from 16. All treatment rooms received new furnishings and updated, state-of-the-art equipment. The 12-week expansion project cost $720,000. The North Knoxville Medical Center is one of East Tennessee's newest hospitals. It ...

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