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  • 5 things to know today

    Mmmm, biscuits: The International Biscuit Festival will be held today, beginning at 9 a.m. The bake-off competition will be held noon-4:10 p.m. at the Biscuit Big Top Tent, located on Market Street. Various cooking demonstrations will be presented between biscuit competitions. The student category, featuring finalists Megan Fleming and Auden Cole, will begin at 12:40 p.m.; the Savory Biscuit ...

  • UT to offer summer reading tutoring books

    Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders struggling to read can beef up their skills this summer before they head to back to school, thanks to the University of ...

  • Sorority woes Setbacks delay UT houses opening

    Construction of the Alpha Omicron Pi house, pictured on Friday at the University of Tennessee's Sorority Village, is dragging on due to the bankruptcy of its contractor and subsequent legal entanglements. Hickory Construction has taken on the job of completing construction of the 17,000-square-foot house which could take another year — or longer. (Paul Efird/News ...

  • Regal makes most movies accessible for hearing vision impaired

    By the end of this month, every digital film playing in a Regal Cinema theater will for the first time be 100% accessible to all deaf and blind ...

  • Senior with passion for fashion headed to NYC

    It's graduation season when a lot of high school seniors are planning their next move. One West High School student is headed to New York City to pursue her passion for fashion. "I hate it when people follow the trend. I say create the trend," Caroline Trotter said. The Tennessee teen creates art. Caroline Trotter prefers shooting photographs outdoors. She said it's all ...


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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) [Blu-Ray]

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) [Blu-Ray]

When Alfred Hitchcock made The Man Who Knew Too Much, which is arguably his first quintessentially Hitchcockian film, he had already directed more than 15 features, four of which were thrillers: The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Lodger (1927), ...

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  • Biscuit Festival draws national attention

    International Biscuit Festival is recieving more than just East Tennessee media coverage. Organizer John Craig said the festival has made headlines around the country. Craig said the rise in popularity is in part thanks to the comeback of Southern cuisine. "We've got people from New York to California that want to talk about Southern food because it has an authentic quality to it ...

  • Details emerge in Ft. Campbell officers stalking case

    New details are emerging in the stalking case against an Army officer at Fort Campbell. Police say Colonel Darin Haas threatened to kill his ex-wife in text messages. Colonel Haas managed the sexual harassment and assault response program. On Wednesday, his ex-wife Alissa Owen told police that Haas had been sending her threatening text messages since November 2011, shortly before their ...

  • TBI criticizes Nashville reports on Holly Bobo case

    The TBI is criticizing a series of reports by a Nashville TV station in the Holly Bobo disappearance case. News media statewide have reported extensively on the search for the 20-year-old, who went missing from her Decatur County home two years ago. The NBC station in Nashville, WSMV, recently aired a series of reports that appeared to update the investigation and the circumstances ...

  • Guilty again Jury convicts George Thomas for second time in Christian-Newsom killings

    Photos by MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL Patty Boardwine, chief victims witness coordinator, hugs Hugh Newsom after a jury said guilty of all counts Friday in the re-trial of George Thomas accused of taking part in the January 2007 kidnappings and killings of Channon Christian, 21, and Chris Newsom, 23. At left is Mary ...

  • Portion of Western Avenue reopens

    A closed portion of a busy Knoxville street is reopening Friday night. Western Avenue has been closed between Keith and Richmond Avenues for the past few weeks while a KUB contractor works on improvements to the wastewater system. The road will reopen Friday at midnight, but some construction work will continue through next week. One land of the road will be closed in each direction from 9 ...

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