Posted: 4:50 PM Leaders in one East Tennessee County are breathing a sigh of relief following a decision in Nashville.

Updated: 10:50 AM The Knox County Charter approved by voters in 1994, was upheld by the Tennessee Supreme Court. And that means that several county office holders including the Knox County Sheriff must abide by term limits. It means he, and 11 other elected officials, will be out of a job.

Updated: 2:43 PM The House approved legislation Friday requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies to lower the prices of medicines for Medicare patients.

Posted: 1:44 PM Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is stepping down as chairman of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and expects to be replaced by former US Senate candidate Harold Ford Junior of Memphis.

Posted: 1:39 PM Metro Police are reviewing policies for identifying fugitives after they jailed the wrong man for three weeks.

Posted: 1:26 PM The man accused of killing a halls security officer, will stand trial for the crime July ninth.

Updated: 3:47 PM Local authorities are letting the federal government handle charges against the four men connected with a double murder that the community disgusted and saddened.

Updated: 1:59 PM From the Volunteer TV Newsroom: A Roane County Judge has found Rocky and Leon Houston competent to stand trial. Rocky Houston will return to the Kingston Courtroom on February 5th to determine if he can represent himself in court. We'll have the latest on this on Volunteer TV News at it becomes available.

Posted: 6:40 AM Knoxville Police are looking for a stabbing suspect.

Updated: 6:00 AM The Knoxville Police Department is searching for a car that hit a pedestrian overnight and left the scene.

Updated: 9:28 PM We want to review the timeline of events leading up to the murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.

Updated: 9:02 PM With the President announcing more than 20,000 extra troops will soon be on the ground in Iraq, could soldiers from East Tennessee be among them?

Updated: 9:13 PM You never think it's going to happen to you, which is why safety experts say we should all take a self-defense course to learn how to protect ourselves from an attacker.

Updated: 3:19 PM The Court Secretary of the Tennessee Supreme Court says an opinion will be filed in the case surrounding the validity of the Knox County Charter and the impact it will have on county government Friday afternoon.

Updated: 9:12 PM They call themselves members of Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13 for short, and their reputation precedes them. A record of violence so brutal, so long, that some federal agencies consider MS-13, the most serious gang threat our country faces.

Posted: 6:29 PM A bill to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour now waits for Senate approval, but it already has small business owners here in Knoxville wondering if they can afford to pay their workers more.

Posted: 5:24 PM McCreary County Schools in Kentucky will be closed Friday, because of illness.

Posted: 3:40 PM Al-Qaeda remains the biggest threat to the nation's security, but the President's intelligence chief says Hezbollah is a growing danger.

Updated: 4:17 PM We now have funeral arrangements for Channon Christian. Visitation is Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Weavers Funeral Home on Western Avenue in Knoxville.

Updated: 4:53 AM New clues are being released about an East Knoxville double murder, as three "persons of interest" are taken into custody.

Posted: 1:18 PM American and Somali officials say a small team of US Special Operations Forces are in Somalia hunting suspected al-Qaeda fighters.

Posted: 1:00 PM We don't know who it'll be, but the Democratic nominee for President in 2008 will go forth from the Mile High City.

Updated: 3:17 PM From the Volunteer TV Newsroom: The House has approved a bill boosting federal support of embryonic stem cell research. We'll have more on VolunteerTV.com as it becomes available.

Posted: 12:36 PM A federal judge in Memphis this morning moved back the trial of former State Senator John Ford.

Posted: 12:14 PM About 160 people are losing their jobs at Black and Decker plants in Jackson.