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  • Students alumni prepare to say goodbye to old Greenback School

    A school where generation after generation attended will soon see a big change. "My son went there," said Ronnie Lott, a 1969 graduate of Greenback School. "My grandchildren are there now." Come January, the 92-year-old Loudon County school will have a new building for the 900 students to go to. Located a few yards away from the current structure, the state-of-the-art ...

  • Alcoa warns of scammer claiming to collect utility payments

    Alcoa is warning residents about a scammer who is calling residents and asking to collect money on an account. The city says it does not call customers to collect utility payments, and if there are issues with any payments, it will either come via an automated message or through an online payment system. The city asks that anyone who receives a call demanding immediate payment should ...

  • FWS to consider concerns about endangered fish

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the agency takes seriously the concerns of environmentalists that two East Tennessee mines are a threat to endangered fish. The Sierra Club and several other groups sued the Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday. They claim the agency did not use the most up-to-date science when it agreed to allow surface mining at ...

  • Knoxville UT looking to expand use of Worlds Fair Park

    Knoxville, in conjunction with UT, is looking into expanding use of World's Fair Park as a center for cultural resources. Deputy Mayor Bill Lyons will work alongside UT Professor of Anthropology Jan Simek in co-chairing a group to decide what's best for the park. The park opened up for the world to see in 1982 and has been used by the city and other organizations since to hold ...

  • Wrestler says he has no plans on running for political office

    Kane - we mean Glenn Jacobs - said Monday that he has "no plans on running for political office at this time" following a report late last week that he might be planning to take on U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander. The World Wrestling Entertainment star said "things get a little carried away on the Internet sometimes" in response to a Reason magazine post that quoted an anonymous ...


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Movie Review

The Pornographers (Jinruigaku nyumon) [DVD]

The Pornographers (Jinruigaku nyumon) [DVD]

Director Shohei Imamura loved outcast characters, so its no surprise that he made a film like The Pornographers (Jinruigaku nyumon), which is about a man who makes illegal 8mm stag films for a living, but uses the money to support a widow and her weird family. Imamuras films are often dark, but funny, and he is fond of shining lights in the darkest corners of postwar Japanese societ ... ...

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  • Search underway for Cocke Co. man accused of sexually assaulting 2 teens

    Authorities are searching for a Cocke County man accused of sexual assaulting two teenagers. On Sunday night, a 15-year-old girl told Cocke County deputies at Tennova Medical Center's emergency room that Richard Sullivan, 40, sexually assaulted her. Deputies said those allegations also involved a 13-year-old, who authorities said is mentally incapacitated. Sullivan was the live-in ...

  • Ownby censure placed on commission agenda for May 28

    Jeff Ownby , who pleaded no contest to public indecency in May 10 after police caught him nearly a year ago engaging in oral sex with another man at Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, apologized this month to Knox County at a judge's ...

  • Sheriff Blount Co. couple died in a murdersuicide

    (WBIR-Louisville, TN) The Blount County Sheriff's Office says a Louisville couple died in what appears to be a murder/suicide. According to Sheriff James Lee Berrong, a relative found Rebecca A. Adkins, 53, and Steven R. Adkins, 54, in their home on Chandler Road Sunday evening around 8:30 pm. It's not known how long the couple had been deceased. Autopsies were performed on Monday to ...

  • Gov. Haslam signs food tax reduction bill

    Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed the last step in a two-year effort to reduce the state's portion of groceries sales tax from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. Haslam signed the bill at Solan's Grocery in Vonore on Monday. "We're lowering taxes and balancing the state budget by managing conservatively, making strategic investments in our priorities and finding new ways to ...

  • Commission takes 1st vote on censure of Ownby

    Knox County Commissioner Jeff Ownby moved during Monday's work session to add his court-ordered letter of apology to the public record. Ownby ...

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