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  • State of Tenn. honors soldiers killed in action

    The State of Tennessee paid tribute Friday to three soldiers killed in action. Governor Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam joined Veterans Affairs in honoring Sergeant Jacob Schwallie from Clarksville and Private First Class Glenn Schoenmann, a prisoner of war who reportedly died in December of 1950. Tennessee also honored Staff Sergeant Chris Ward, who lived in Oak Ridge shortly before ...

  • Paducah plant closes after DOE pulls proposal 1000 lose jobs

    More than 1,000 people in western Kentucky are now looking for jobs after the US Department of Energy pulled a proposal that would extend operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Managers planned to close the plant last year, but it saw new life when TVA asked it to enrich depleted uranium for the power company. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear called Friday's announcement ...

  • Gibbs High School celebrates 100th anniversary

    Gibbs High School celebrated its centennial anniversary on Friday. Graduates new and old gathered to visit, learn more about their school's history, and see what the building looks like today. One grad says over the years, things have changed. "Our lunches cost five cents and we had a cafeteria and we went through the line and had just a vegetable plate," said Willie Clapp ...

  • Girls face felony charges for vandalizing elementary school

    (WBIR- Rockwood, Tn) Three girls are now facing charges in connection with the vandalism of an elementary school. Rockwood Police Chief Bill Stinnett says the girls ages 11, 12 and 14 broke into Ridge View Elementary early Friday morning. Police say they broke two iPads, poured a soft drink into a copy machine, threw paint over more than a dozen computers and monitors, and wrote on $3,000 ...

  • Marijuana guns found in home of suspected Cocke Co. drug dealer

    A Cocke County man has been arrested after sheriff's deputies say they purchased marijuana from him during an undercover investigation. The Cocke County Sheriff's Office says they arrested Lemuel Garver after an investigation spanning nearly a year. They say Garver was part of a larger conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs in Cocke County. When deputies searched his home, they ...


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Movie Review

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

In his first dramatic role, MTV and tabloid mainstay Ashton Kutcher drops his male bimbo persona and delves headfirst into the gloom and doom of The Butterfly Effect, playing Evan Treborn, a tortured young man who finds that he has the inexplicable ability to travel back in time and alter the future. The title of the movie is derived from a popular simplification of chaos theory: If a butt ... ...

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  • Furloughs for park police ending early

    Furloughs for US park police, including those at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are ending early. The National Park Service says it saved enough money from three days of furloughs and other cost-cutting measures. The furloughs, which were a result of forced federal spending cuts earlier this year, are set to end June ...

  • Another class action lawsuit filed against Pilot Flying J

    Another class action lawsuit has been filed against Pilot Flying J. This time the main plaintiff is a customer in Mississippi. As with at least half a dozen other suits, the latest one claims Pilot hid a rebate scheme that ripped off trucking companies. Federal investigators raided the Knoxville headquarters on April 15, and since then a federal judge unsealed court documents detailing the ...

  • 4 more indicted in Benchmark Capital fraud investigation

    Four more people face federal prosecution in the widening investigation into a Knoxville-area investment firm that authorities say was actually an elaborate hoax to bilk ...

  • Child on bicycle dies after being hit by truck

    A child bicyclist who was struck by a truck on Western Avenue on Friday has died, police have confirmed. Officials say the child was in critical condition when they arrived, and he was pronounced dead at the UT Medical Center. Police have not yet released the victim's name. An investigation is ...

  • 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 ...

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