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Local Hero Returns Home

Updated: 9:19 PM Last year an East Tennessee marine lost both his legs to a roadside bomb attack in Iraq.

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East Tennesseans Debate Death Penalty

Updated: 9:34 PM Governor Bredesen will lift a 90-day ban on executions Wednesday. Tennessee is ready to resume executions under new rules now, making lethal injections less painful.

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Blount Brush Fire Burns 1 Home

Updated: 4:40 PM Blount County fire crews and members from the Tennessee Forestry Department are on scene right now of a brush fire on Butterfly Gap Road.

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Misfiring Shotgun Saves Officers' Lives

Posted: 11:31 AM An East Tennessee man is now charged with three counts of attempted first degree murder and three Knoxville Police officers are thankful to be alive.

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Graffiti Suspects Appear in Court

Posted: 11:28 AM A trial date has been set for two men charged in connection with graffiti vandalism in the Downtown Knoxville area.

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Terror Leader Killed in Iraq?

Updated: 4:26 PM The U.S. Military says it's looking into reports that the leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq has been killed.

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Working to Get Tourists Back

Updated: 9:28 PM It was a banner year for tourism in Sevier County last year so what are officials there doing to get people to return, now that the price of gas is on the rise again?

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Deputies Shoot Man in Knox County

Updated: 9:49 PM A Knox County man is in the hospital tonight after being shot several times by an officer. More than 15 hours after the shooting and TBI Supervisory Agent in Charge Bob Denny still has not returned any of our calls.

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Oak Ridge Lab Certified by EPA

Posted: 3:31 PM Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the licensed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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State Department: Terror Attacks Up Sharply

Posted: 2:36 PM A new State Department report says there were 25 percent more terrorist attacks worldwide last year, and that extremists killed 40 percent more people than the previous year.

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