Updated: 11:31 PM Scott County's hospital is getting ready to make a comeback after massive layoffs and a total shutdown. The paperwork for Pioneer Health Services to acquire the hospital is on the desk of the Attorney General.

Updated: 11:37 PM A new law, designed to protect those that can't help themselves, is signed into law in Caryville.

Updated: 6:22 PM Help Local 8 News Saturday morning anchor and reporter Allie Spillyards raise money for Horse Haven by buying a painting.

Updated: 6:06 PM A safety team in Dollywood's safety department tracks severe storms approaching the area to keep guests safe.

Updated: 10:43 PM Less than 24 hours after a devastating tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, people in the volunteer state were gearing up to help.

Updated: 6:58 PM Many of us in East Tennessee know what people in Oklahoma are going through. A tornado last year killed two people in Cumberland County and another twister ripped through Tellico Plains. Teachers are talking to kids about disaster and death.

Updated: 6:12 PM The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.

Updated: 4:28 PM An emergency official said Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them

Posted: 3:57 PM Six people are charged after two meth labs were found in one place.

Updated: 10:53 PM A tornado is often considered the most powerful storm on earth wind speed can exceed too miles per hour. We classify these tornadoes based on what's called the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Posted: 2:10 PM With the spring semester of his sophomore year in the books, Richardson is spending the month of May in his hometown of Edmond, Okla.

Posted: 11:26 AM Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law revisions to the state conservatorship statute allowing the court to appoint a conservator to manage the assets of a person found unable to handle his or her own affairs.

Updated: 11:08 AM President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history.

Updated: 11:07 AM Knoxville pet sitting pro wants to help people heading to Oklahoma to be with family affected by the tornado.

Updated: 12:09 PM Two injured in bus accident on Johnson Gap Road

Updated: 7:13 AM The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development says the new facility to apply finishing services to rebar now made at the company's Lonsdale mill.

Updated: 11:07 AM For many families in Moore, the ordeal ended in bear hugs and tears of joy. Others were left to wait in the darkness, hoping for good news while fearing the worst.

Updated: 5:21 AM Pop Culture kicks off National orange Popsicle Week of stroke awareness.

Updated: 11:07 AM Tina and Stewart Hedger spent Monday afternoon calling on friends and family in Oklahoma to make sure they survived the massive tornado. They knew family is safe, but there was still one couple they hadn't heard from.

Updated: 11:42 PM Rats, snakes, and garbage: just a few of the problems in an abandoned house in one neighborhood.

Updated: 6:15 PM A community is in shock after deputies found a couple dead in their home. Now, investigators tell us it's a murder suicide.

Updated: 1:11 PM Death toll revised down to 24 but likely to rise as rescuers sift through area savaged by mammoth twister; at least 7 kids killed

Updated: 4:02 PM Sexual assault suspect, Richard Sullivan, was captured around 9:00 p.m. Monday night.

Posted: 4:10 PM Governor Bill Haslam signed a bill reducing the statewide grocery tax into law on Monday.

Updated: 9:07 PM A Louisville couple is dead after what the Blount County Sheriff's Office is calling a possible murder suicide.