Posted: 12:10 PM It's back to work, and back to the malls for shoppers. The National Retail Federation estimates that consumers spent $24.8 billion on gift cards this Holiday season.

Posted: 12:07 PM A well-know writer who brought stories about Appalachia to people around the world has died.

Updated: 11:36 PM Knoxville fire fighters believe a short in the wiring may have sparked a house fire Monday evening.

Updated: 10:08 PM Many US soldiers are away from their families this Christmas as they continue their mission in Iraq.

Updated: 3:15 PM On January first, the Tennessee Vols will be playing in the Outback Bowl.

Updated: 10:09 PM Many of you spent the Christmas Day unwrapping presents and enjoying meals with your family, but hundreds of volunteers experienced the true season of giving.

Updated: 10:07 PM A scary couple of moments for a pilot aboard a small aircraft Monday afternoon, when it had to make a belly landing at Island Home Airport in Knoxville.

Posted: 3:44 PM An apartment fire in South Knoxville has left one pretty damaged.

Posted: 2:38 PM On a normal day, Knox Area Rescue Ministries serves more than 1,000 meals.

Posted: 1:30 PM Pope Benedict XVI urged a solution to conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa, in a Christmas Day address that included an appeal for the poor, the exploited, and all those who suffer.

Posted: 1:25 PM Iraq's Christians are celebrating Christmas quietly as violence sweeps the country.

Posted: 12:24 PM James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose revolutionary rhythms, rough voice and flashing footwork influenced generations of musicians from rock to rap, died early Christmas morning. He was 73.

Posted: 12:10 PM Over the last three years, a handful of companies have developed secure-internet software to make one-stop welfare benefits screening and applications available to states.

Updated: 12:26 PM An Oneida woman has been killed in a car accident in west central Kentucky.

Updated: 12:25 PM Two business fires in Knoxville on Christmas Eve.

Updated: 12:26 PM A new tool is helping Knoxville police keep shoppers safer.

Posted: 11:49 PM An update for you on the dog shot and killed in north Knoxville Thursday night.

Posted: 9:13 PM Hundreds gathered to pay final tribute to Kentucky State Trooper Jonathan Leonard on Saturday.

Posted: 9:11 PM A Campbell county man has died in a car wreck.

Updated: 4:34 PM A local high school football coach was an assistant coach for the Marshall team lost in a plane crash in 1970.

Updated: 12:27 PM A Delta flight headed to Knoxville has to return to Atlanta.

Updated: 9:27 PM How you can help Second Harvest Food Bank.

Updated: 9:29 PM This time of year, we hear a lot of talk about drunk driving, but you don't have to be legally impaired to be a danger on the road.

Updated: 10:29 PM A federal court in East Tennessee could help settle one of the more critical labor questions of this new century: if your company makes promises when you retire, are they good for life?

Updated: 9:31 PM One East Tennessee couple is getting ready for Christmas without their dog after he was shot in their own fenced in backyard Thursday night.