The founder of the Food City chain, Jack C. Smith has passed away at his home in Abingdon, Virginia following a brief illness. He was 81 years old.

Democratic House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh got mad. Then he canceled his weekly news conference.

A toddler is in DCS custody after a restaurant worker found the boy alone in a parked truck outside.

A juror in the case against a man charged with killing a woman and dumping her body on an East Tennessee mountain had to removed from the Sevier County courtroom after getting physically ill.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be out in force this St. Patrick’s Day Weekend with increased patrols and sobriety and driver license checkpoints across the state.

Doctors say newly appointed Knox County Commissioner Chuck Bolus did not have a heart attack, though they declined to say what was wrong with him.

They'll play you some mountain music at concerts in the Smokies.

Substance abuseon college campuses is becoming more extreme and dangerous according to a comprehensive new report.

A gunman with a fake beard and carrying 100 rounds of ammunition rampaged through a strip of restaurants and bars in a trendy Manhattan neighborhood, killing a pizzeria employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers before other officers shot him to death, the mayor said.

Transcripts show nine-eleven mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

An operational emergency has been declared at Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.
A small uranium chip fire inside a building has been extinguished.
No protective action recommendations have been issued for areas outside the Y-12 site boundary and none are anticipated.

We have a first-hand account from rescuers who pulled an unconscious explorer from the bottom of a Union County cave.

Lifestar transports one person after an ATV accident.

Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. delivered the following one-minute speech on the Floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday.

After a life that appeared to be going in the wrong direction, Tommy McGouey now works to keep others from making the same mistakes.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.

Knoxville's red-light cameras are raising red flags with a couple of East Tennessee lawmakers.

A huge sigh of relief in west Knox County for parents who spent days worried about a stranger, believed to be preying on children.

A reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga was shut down as a precaution after a feedwater pump malfunctioned.

Wall Street gyrated and then steadied itself Wednesday, closing with a respectable advance although the Dow Jones industrials fell as much as 136 points and briefly dropped below the 12,000 mark before recovering.

Jurors have recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford.

Governor Bredesen said Wednesday he intends to press ahead with the creation of an Open Records Ombudsman despite some resistance in the legislature.

Banana company Chiquita Brands International was charged Wednesday with doing business with a terrorist organization.

A man with 15 outstanding warrants has been arrested in Halls following a police chase.

A jury in Sevier County is hearing expert testimony in the case against a man accused of murdering a teen.