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  • Former officer charged in pharmacy shooting that killed 2 injured 2

    (WBIR- Bean Station, Tenn.) A former police officer has been charged overnight with a shooting spree inside a local drugstore that left two men dead and two women injured. The shooting happened at the Down Home pharmacy in Bean Station around 11:15 am on Thursday. According to District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn, Jason Brian Holt, 37, was arrested shortly after the shooting. According to ...

  • 4 more charged in alleged Benchmark Capital investment fraud

    (WBIR) Four additional people have been charged in connection with an alleged investment fraud scheme that targeted the elderly in Tennessee and North Carolina. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, dozens invested more than $42.6 million in fake annuity investments with Benchmark Capital, Inc. Investigators say investors lost a net total of $18 million. Three ...

  • Knoxville man killed in single vehicle crash

    (WBIR- Knoxville) Police say 54-year-old Roger E. Welchel was killed when the Corvette he was driving flipped over after running off Chapman highway and hitting a ditch. According to a press release from the KPD, the accident happened around 10:45 p.m. Thursday near Gwinfield Road. Police say Welchel was driving the 2013 Corvette fast heading south on Chapman Highway. After leaving the ...

  • THP stepping up DUI enforcement over holiday

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Highway Patrol is stepping up seat belt and DUI enforcement over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The holiday period begins at 6 p.m. on Friday and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Monday. State troopers have scheduled 65 checkpoints. Officials say 16 people were killed on Tennessee roadways during last year's Memorial Day weekend. That was a decrease from 19 ...

  • Deadline here for hunter comments on regulations

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Hunters have through Monday to comment to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency on hunting regulations for the next seasons. The proposals are online at www.tnwildlife.org and comments to TWRA can also be made online at twra.comment(at)tn.gov. The subject line should read "hunting season comments." The comments will be reviewed by the TWRA Wildlife ...


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Ryder P.I. [DVD]

Ryder P.I. [DVD]

Ryder P.I. is an excruciatingly unfunny comedy about a couple of inept private detectives. The movie was an amateur production shot on video in the mid-1980s by a group of comedians from Long Island who couldn't break into movies any other way than to make one themselves. Unfortunately, no one involved in the production seems to have known anything about filmmaking or, more importantly, ho ... ...

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  • Man dies in South Knoxville car crash

    KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A man died Thursday night after crashing his vehicle in South Knoxville. Police say Roger Welchel, 54, was driving his 2013 Chevrolet Corvette southbound on Chapman Highway just after 11:30 p.m., when the car left the roadway. The Corvette hit a ditch and flipped, coming to rest on its top. Welchel was pronounced dead at the scene. Alcohol was found in the vehicle, but ...

  • Former Knox County juvenile guard charged with running from wreck

    A former juvenile corrections officer will turn himself in next month to face charges of leaving the scene of a wreck and driving without ...

  • Driver killed when Corvette leaves Chapman Highway flips

    This image from Google Maps shows the approximate location of Gwinfield Drive and Chapman Highway, the site of a fatal accident just before midnight on Thursday, May 23, ...

  • 5 things to know today

    Uncle Maddio's opens: Uncle Maddio's Pizza Joint will open at 11 a.m. today at Northshore Town Center. Free 9-inch three-topping pizzas will be given away to all guests from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. A certificate for free pizza for a year will also be awarded. ...

  • News Sentinel raises single-copy price

    Starting Monday, the single-copy price of the daily News Sentinel will be $1. Home delivery rates will not be affected, and the single-copy price of the Sunday edition will remain ...

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