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  • 2 KPD officers to resign amid beating investigation 3rd will not quit

    Attorneys for two officers with the Knoxville Police Department say their clients have resigned amid an ongoing investigation into the alleged beating of a handcuffed homeless man in early February. Attorneys for KPD officers Jeremy Jinnett and Chris Whitfield confirmed their clients have submitted their official resignations to the Knoxville Police Department. Ty Compton, Whitfield, and ...

  • Students helped each other after school bus flipped on side

    (WBIR-Anderson County) An Anderson County school bus landed on its side after trying to avoid an oncoming car Tuesday morning according to the Anderson County School District. Two students were injured and transported to nearby hospitals and a Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper on scene says a third was also taken due to previous health conditions. Students describe a "scary and ...

  • Photo Gallery A look back at past tornadoes

    The graphic scene of the way the tragic tornado of Wednesday, March 18th, struck Princeton, Indiana, 1925. All this man had left when the black wind had gone on was his overturned piano, that the wind had been unable to carry away. (Photo by Archive Farms/Getty ...

  • Tea Party demonstrators protest outside IRS offices in Knoxville

    KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Tea Party members and supporters gathered in downtown Knoxville Tuesday to protest the IRS. The agency has come under scrutiny recently by conservative and Tea Party groups, including the Roane County Tea Party. Outside IRS offices, protesters held flags and signs with slogans critical of the president and the IRS. Becky Ferguson brought her grandson and carried a sign that ...

  • State pitches in to lure ProNova to Blount County

    Entrance to Pellissippi Place business park. Medical devices company ProNova Solutions plans to develop a research and manufacturing facility in the Blount County park. (J. Miles Cary/News ...


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Movie Review

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

A decade ago, Oliver Stone was the premiere cinematic chronicler of the recent American past. No filmmaker better nailed the anxieties and failed dreams of the 1960s and, more importantly, the remorse that followed, than Stone did in Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of Ju ... ...

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  • Second Harvest rerouting supplies to Oklahoma

    Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee is rerouting food supplies meant for local assistance programs to meet the urgent needs of tornado survivors in Oklahoma ...

  • C.R. Barger Sons named Roane Industry of the Year

    Harriman -- C.R. Barger & Sons on Tuesday was named the 2013 Roane County Industry of the Year by the Roane County Industrial Development ...

  • How you can help tornado victims

    How you can help You can go to www.redcross.org, call 1-800-RED-CROSS, or text RedCross to 90999 from your cell phone to make a $10 donation. You can also donate to the Salvation Army online at www.SalvationArmyUSA.org or by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769). Please designate donations for "disaster" so 100% of designated gifts are used to provide relief for storm ...

  • Former student accused of killing assistant principal will have new trial this fall

    A new trial for a former student accused of killing a Campbell County assistant principal is scheduled to begin this fall. Kenneth Bartley pleaded guilty in 2007 to charges tied to the shooting that left Ken Bruce dead and two other administrators injured at Campbell County High School. His attorney says the teen didn't have enough time to consider his options, and Judge Jon Kerry ...

  • Truck cordoned off while leaking nitric acid secured

    OAK RIDGE -- A container of nitric acid leaking in a FedEx Ground delivery truck prompted the Oak Ridge Fire Department to cordon off a 150-feet perimeter around the vehicle Tuesday ...

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