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  • Families speak out about Bean Station victims

    (WBIR- Bean Station, Tn) As police continued the investigation into the Bean Station shooting, family members spoke out Friday about the victims. The son of a Richard Alexander Sommerville, who was killed in a shooting Thursday at a Bean Station pharmacy, remembered his dad as a lively person and proud grandfather. "If he was in a room or at a party, he was definitely going to be ...

  • Developing Child on bicycle hit by truck

    Emergency crews are still investigating after a child was hit by a bicycle Friday afternoon on Western Avenue. The accident was reported just after 4:30 pm, on Western at Sullivan Road, right in front of the Third Creek Baptist Church. Officials say the child was hit by a Ryder truck traveling east. There's no word on the child's condition. Western Avenue is down to one lane as of ...

  • Lenoir City grads get botched diplomas

    Some Lenoir City High School students thought there was something that didn't look quite right when they received their diplomas at graduation last ...

  • Closing on EnergySolutions merger

    EnergySolutions and Energy Capital Partners today announced the closing of their merger. EnergySolutions stockholders earlier approved the merger agreement in which they would receive $4.15 cash per share, according to report by the Salt Lake City ...

  • Unclaimed Vietnam veterans laid to rest with honors

    Three Vietnam-era veterans were laid to rest Friday with full military honors, years after their deaths. Sergeant Roger Thompson and Private First Class Fred Hall died in January 2010. Private Gary Sharp died in April 2011, but their cremated remains went unclaimed at the East Tennessee Regional Forensic Center. The Missing in America project contacted the medical examiner's office ...


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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen have a special affinity for characters who are dumber than they seem, which is matched only by their affinity for characters who are precisely as dumb as they seem. Burn After Reading, their relentlessly ridiculous screwball follow-up to No Count ... ...

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  • Tennova dedicates expanded emergency room

    Tennova's North Knoxville Medical Center dedicated its newly renovated and expanded emergency room on Friday. The emergency room is now a 20-bed facility, up from 16. All treatment rooms received new furnishings and updated, state-of-the-art equipment. The 12-week expansion project cost $720,000. The North Knoxville Medical Center is one of East Tennessee's newest hospitals. It ...

  • Mountaintop removal protestors arrested in downtown Knoxville

    Three people are facing charges after a mountaintop removal protest in downtown Knoxville. Knoxville police say Ricki Draper of Greensboro, North Carolina, Julia Lepping of Louisville, Kentucky, and a teenage boy went to the UBS Wealth Management Offices, which are located in the First Tennessee building, and refused to leave. The three used logging chains and bicycle locks to lock ...

  • Victims in pharmacy shooting were shot execution style

    The ex-cop accused in a shooting spree in a Grainger County pharmacy ordered his victims to get on their knees before he shot them, according to a police report. Jason Bryan Holt, 37, ...

  • TWRA reminds boaters to be safe while enjoying the lake

    This weekend is the unofficial start to the summer boating season, and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wants to remind everyone to be safe. TWRA will be out in full force making sure boaters have the proper identification, life jackets, and other safety equipment. A few reminders if you choose to head out and hit places like Norris Lake this weekend.. Make sure you have a ...

  • ETSU looking for conference for resurrected football team

    WCYB-TV ETSU welcomed officials from the Southern Conference on campus Thursday. The SoCon presidents will meet next week in Hilton Head, SC to vote on adding ETSU. The Bucs are former SoCon members. They left after dropping their football program in 2003. With the football program restarting in 2015, the SoCon is a likely landing spot. "That's one of the things we are ...

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