Updated: 12:57 PM Republican John McCain officially entered the 2008 presidential race Wednesday, stressing his experience honed in war and Washington as he sought to revive his struggling campaign.

Updated: 7:35 PM Students at Austin-East High School spent 45 minutes in lockdown this morning after shots were fired in a neighborhood close to the school.

Posted: 11:33 AM A soldier who grew up in Knoxville is one of nine 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers killed in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq.

Posted: 11:26 AM Police in Nashville say five members of a Kurdish gang attacked a student at a south Nashville high school, forcing officials to lock down the building.

Updated: 7:37 PM New developments in the unsolved murder case of Johnia Berry are raising new questions. Knox County Sheriff's investigators have asked Peninsula, a local mental health services provider, where Johnia worked, to release the names of some male patients.

Updated: 11:38 AM The Dow Jones industrial average shot past 13,000 for the first time Wednesday, powered by growing evidence of a strong corporate America: rising earnings and better-than-expected economic data.

Updated: 4:29 AM The Knox County Sheriff's Department is investigating an overnight shooting in West Knoxville.

Updated: 4:57 AM Two people are in the hospital after a serious car accident in Knox County.

Posted: 10:52 PM Questions about school rezoning in Knox County continue as parents seek answers from their school board members.

Updated: 7:45 PM Blount County's Sheriff submitted his budget to the budget committee and is asking for nearly three million dollars in extra revenue to give pay raises to deputies.

Updated: 7:40 PM It's crimes, like the stabbing in North Knoxville Monday night and the double murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in early January, that have local clergy concerned.

Posted: 5:39 PM An ordinary police raid against a Chattanooga nightclub has become a major story that spans at least three states.

Posted: 5:28 PM Once near death when found in rural Louisiana, a black bear is now on its way home after being nursed to health by a Blount County bear rescue organization.

Posted: 4:38 PM Tennessee is deemed the "Volunteer State", but are we living up to our name?

Updated: 7:50 PM When this type of picture arrives in your mailbox, it includes a citation and it doesn't bring a smile to your face. Thousands of you know instantly that I'm talking about photos from Knoxville's traffic light cameras.

Posted: 4:03 PM A "full-scale riot" broke out Tuesday at a medium-security men's prison, according to the mayor, and pictures taken from television helicopters showed at least two fires burning in the courtyard.

Posted: 4:01 PM Federal inspectors have evaluated a South-Central Kentucky site that's been proposed as home for a national laboratory. The lab would develop vaccines against biological diseases.

Posted: 3:29 PM An independent panel studying the leaks at a dam on Lake Cumberland issued a report Tuesday.

Posted: 2:06 PM A Mount Juliet family has filed a lawsuit over an anthrax hoax in Knoxville.

Updated: 3:56 PM An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when he died by friendly fire said Tuesday he was told by a higher-up to conceal that information from Tillman's family.

Posted: 11:54 AM A contractor working on the Sunsphere was injured this morning.

Posted: 11:50 AM A wildfire is burning inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near its northern edge.

Posted: 11:44 AM Looking for another bounce in its stock price, International Business Machines increased its dividend payout by ten cents and authorized an aggressive ramp-up of its share buyback program Tuesday.

Posted: 11:32 AM The rising cost of oil and the strong demand for concrete have put the brakes on some Tennessee highway projects.

Updated: 11:28 AM Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Halberstam, who chronicled the Nashville civil rights awakening, has died in a California car crash.