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  • Local schools tornado protocol mirrors Oklahoma

    So many stories are coming out of Moore, Oklahoma, about the heroic actions of teachers trying to keep their students safe. In February 2012, teachers in the Tellico Plains school system were concerned they might find themselves in a similar situation. Severe weather began to threaten the area shortly after school got out for the day, and many students and neighbors had to take refuge inside ...

  • Okla. tornadoes bring memories to 02 Mossy Grove victims

    Sue Jones looked through a large, black scrapbook Tuesday, with the words engraved "Mossy Grove Tornado." "When it came, my husband said we better get in," she recalled the night of November 10, 2002. "It was really eerie. There was no wind, but you could smell this earth." Jones lost her home after the overnight EF3 tornado struck the small Morgan County ...

  • No charges filed in Gibbs dead animal prank case closed

    (WBIR- Knoxville, TN) The Knox County Sheriff's Office has announced there will be no charges filed in a prank at Gibbs High School where dead animals were littered throughout the campus. Officials say they looked into several leads before the decision was made not to prosecute. Last ...

  • Poll Tennesseans favor Hasalm Medicaid expansion against Internet tax Obamacare

    NASHVILLE -- A growing majority of Tennesseans support expansion of Medicaid within the state though most at the same time have an unfavorable impression of the federal law that authorizes expansion, according to a Vanderbilt University poll released ...

  • Six adults arrested 3-year-old girl in DCS custody after meth lab busts in Seymour

    Five men and one woman have been arrested and a 3-year-old girl placed into state Department of Children's Services custody following a Monday investigation of two methamphetamine labs in Seymour, according to Blount County Sheriff James Lee ...


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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead

George A. Romero has given the British zombie parody Shaun of the Dead a ringing endorsement and even invited cowriter and star Simon Pegg to play a cameo role in his upcoming Land of the Dead (the third sequel to 1968's Night of the Living Dead). In a way, I' ... ...

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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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