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  • Morristown food truck launches fundraiser after fire

    (WBIR-Morristown) A Morristown business on the cusp of celebrating its one-year anniversary is now taking steps to repair damage from flames that destroyed the food truck about a week ago. Crazy Good Burgers & Fries used to park its food truck along the town's main stretch, Monday through Saturday. "It's been great. We've grown, we were about to open up a second ...

  • Triology tour Author Atkinson talks World War II in Knoxville visit

    Pulitzer prize-winning author Rick Atkinson speaks to guests Sunday at the Bijou Theater. Atkinson was in Knoxville as part of a national book-signing tour for the final installment of his "The Liberation Trilogy." (Photo by Wade Payne, Special to the News ...

  • Tremont adds to board of directors announces officers

    With the addition of these new members, Tremont's board now includes 17 members. Current officers of the board are Cathy Ackermann, chairwoman; Billy Carroll, vice president; and Elizabeth Estill, ...

  • Family returns home from Dollywood to find house in flames

    A Loudon County family enjoying a day at Dollywood came home to find their two-story house in flames Sunday afternoon. Loudon County firefighters responded to the Lakeland Drive house fire shortly after 3:00 p.m. Sunday. They say the fire started on the second floor. Firefighters contained the flames to the second floor, but by that time it had already badly damaged the house. Between the ...

  • Four medical buddy pairs enter Nashville Kids Triathlon

    Natalie Young looks at her little brother and sees joy. The gleeful squeals that brighten the redhead's freckled face. The vibrant eyes that shine out from behind his glasses. "It's amazing to see him smile with everything he does," Natalie, 13, said of her brother, Dylan, 9. Particularly when everything he does is such a challenge. Dylan was born with one side of his ...


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Movie Review

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

No matter how innocent or revolutionary the final product is meant to be, making comedies about race is always a delicate matter because, in trying to dismantle stereotypes by mocking their very conception, the filmmakers constantly run the risk of reinforcing them simply by trotting them out. Such is the case with Bringing Down the House, an often funny, often uncomfortable comedy that tr ... ...

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  • Update Large hail falls on Knox Co. as storm rolls by

    Large hail of up to a quarter and half-dollar-size fell on parts of Knox, Anderson and Blount counties Sunday afternoon. Severe storm warnings for Knox and several other counties were allowed to expire, but a warning for Anderson Co. remained in effect until 2:30 ...

  • Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued for Loudon Morgan Roane Cos

    Severe Thunderstorm warning for Loudon Co., Morgan Co., Roane Co. until 1:15 p.m. The national weather service Doppler Radar indicated a severe thunderstorm that could produce quarter size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. The storm was located near Kingston at 12:12 p.m. moving southeast at 15 mph. The National Weather Service says that this is a dangerous storm. It advisses ...

  • North Knox County man charged with murder of his brother

    KNOXVILLE - A north Knox County man is being charged with the murder of his brother, who was found lying in a pool of blood early Saturday morning, according to the Knox County Sheriff's ...

  • Who failed the children 407-pound teen sister die within 4 months

    RED BOILING SPRINGS, TENN. - Derek and Sherry Head live down a gravel driveway that forks in two directions. The short path goes to their small white home, and the other runs up the hill to the Clementsville Cemetery. They buried two of their children there last year. Beneath black headstones, they first buried their 407-pound son, Adam, 15, and then their daughter, Tamara, who suffered from ...

  • 5 things to know today

    Highland Games: Be Scottish, if only for the weekend. The 2013 Smoky Mountain Highland Games are this weekend on the campus of Maryville College. Gates open at 8:30 a.m. today. The event includes athletic competitions in such events as tossing the caber or haggis, lots of music and activities for tartan-clad children. A worship service scheduled for 9:30 a.m. includes a parade of the attending ...

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