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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

Now that the Iron Man movies have reached entry number 3 (if we can consider, ala Federico Fellini, that the characters appearance in last summers The Avengers counts as at least half a movie), we can safely say that the series has matured into one of the more resili ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Gold Star family members fallen servicemen honored at Governors Memorial Day Ceremony

    Gov. Bill Haslam paid tribute to the memories of Tennessee troops killed in action and to their surviving families as he proclaimed Friday the first Gold Star Family Day in state ...

  • Destination Imagination hosts Global Finals offers interactive learning competitions

    photos by MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL Milan High Red Eye team members get the first look at their invisible ';Phantom of the Opera'; member, who appears to them at the end of the skit, at the Destination Imagination competition Friday. DI is an interactive academic competition held annually in Knoxville that features more than 1,200 teams and 16,500 competitors from more than 15 ...

  • BPV mutual funds pass $100M mark

    In 2011, the company announced the creation of two publicly traded mutual funds -- the BPV Core Diversification Fund and BPV Wealth Preservation ...

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