Updated: 5:00 AM Friends and family gather to say a final farewell to Lance Corporal William Craig Koprince Junior.

Updated: 12:24 AM A businessman behind one of East Tennessee's most famous landmarks has died.

Posted: 6:40 PM The first Muslim elected to Congress has taken his ceremonial oath of office on a Quran that was owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Posted: 6:27 PM Federal prosecutors Thursday announced a major settlement with a Knoxville-based heart surgeons group.

Posted: 6:22 PM As Congress convenes Thursday, new North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler says he's having trouble making the transition of power between his staff and the man he unseated.

Posted: 6:18 PM State Senate Democrats Thursday afternoon voted for John Wilder to be their candidate for speaker of the General Assembly's upper chamber.

Updated: 6:23 PM According to the Mayo Clinic, former President Bush has had surgery today to replace his right hip.

Posted: 5:06 PM Tennessee reportedly remains a strong contender for Toyota's eighth US assembly plant.

Posted: 2:15 PM Her six grandchildren were with her for the historic moment, when Nancy Pelosi collected enough votes to make her the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Posted: 1:52 PM The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits nationwide shot up last week to the highest level since late November, but Tennessee saw an improvement.

Updated: 4:50 PM A national report shows Tennessee children rank 45th nationally in the likelihood they will achieve academic and professional success growing up in the state.

Posted: 1:42 PM The informant hired by the FBI to arrange bribes to state lawmakers directed a movie about thug life, but he's not referring to his involvement in the Tennessee Waltz undercover sting.

Updated: 3:31 PM A tractor trailer carrying the radioactive material "uranium hexaflouride" has been involved in a two-vehicle crash at Paducah, but no leaks are reported to have occurred.

Updated: 4:41 AM For six days, Children's Hospital has been treating a baby girl for serious internal injuries. Injuries, Knoxville Police believe, her own father inflicted.

Updated: 9:25 PM Back in November Bob Corker pulled off a narrow win over Democrat Harold Ford, Junior. Now, he's officially a US Senator. WVLT's Alan Williams is the only TV reporter from Knoxville in DC covering Corker's swearing-in Thursday.

Updated: 4:56 AM How prepared is Knox County's E911 center if a disaster ever strikes?

Updated: 9:19 PM Knoxville Police continue to interview witnesses to find out who fired a deadly shot that killed a Knoxville man Tuesday afternoon.

Updated: 9:12 PM Remi Lynch has been robbed before. Tuesday morning was actually the fourth or fifth time she's been held up. She was working at the Breadbox on Hardin Valley Road when a man approached her with a knife. But when he dropped his weapon, she made her move.

Posted: 6:24 PM Johnson City Police say officers attempting to serve a warrant ended up in a shootout Wednesday afternoon that left the suspect dead.

Updated: 9:01 PM Thursday is a big day for a former mayor from here in East Tennessee. Bob Corker will be sworn in as Tennessee's newest United States Senator.

Updated: 9:07 PM A woman more than a thousand miles away from East Tennessee is reunited with her dog that has been missing for 8 months, but there is a catch. Don't ask us how it happened, but the dog made its way here to Knoxville.

Posted: 1:37 PM Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are heading to "The Colonies" later this month.

Updated: 1:38 PM For more than a decade, the incinerator at the former K-25 site in oak Ridge has been a source of controversy.

Posted: 12:48 PM The Iraqi government has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the unauthorized cell-phone video of Saddam Hussein's execution.

Updated: 1:50 PM Police in Tacoma, Washington, have arrested a high school student in the shooting death of another student this morning in a hallway at the school.