Posted: 11:17 AM Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander has asked President Bush to include in his budget money to replace the Tennessee National Guard's gear.

Posted: 11:14 AM The State Safety Department will absorb the Homeland Security Department. That's one of the cabinet changes Governor Bredesen is putting into action.

Updated: 4:40 PM Highway 131 in Union County is reopened at this hour after a car and a dump truck collide on the road around 8:30 this morning.

Posted: 10:57 AM At least one person was wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning outside a Las Vegas high school, officials said.

Updated: 11:35 AM Workers at Ober Gatlinburg are hoping snow later this week will help business pick back up.

Updated: 9:23 PM Economists are saying the days of working harder is being replaced with working smarter with well trained workers using technology to maximize output.

Updated: 9:24 PM The Tennessee Highway Patrol tells WVLT the two major interstates that run through Knoxville can be a dangerous target for drug trades.

Updated: 1:33 PM Knoxville Police are asking for the public's help in looking for a missing woman. At a news conference held Monday evening, Knoxville Police say the body 21-year-old Channon Christian's boyfriend, 23-year-old Christopher Newsom was found along the railroad tracks near 9th Avenue. Channon Christian is still missing.

Updated: 9:26 PM A self help group called SNAP, the survivors network of those abused by priests, made their voice heard in Knoxville and across the country Sunday, the fifth anniversary of the sex abuse scandal in the catholic church.

Posted: 4:53 PM Governor Bredesen named a new Safety Commissioner and filled two other vacancies in his cabinet Monday.

Posted: 3:25 PM A Moroccan who helped the September Eleventh Hijackers has been sentenced to 15 years by a German court.

Updated: 4:43 PM From the Volunteer TV Newsroom: Officials in Miami have blown up a packaged that had tested positive for explosives. Authorities now say the package did not have explosives in it. We'll have the latest on VolunteerTV.com as it becomes available, and on WVLT News at 5:30 and 6:00.

Posted: 2:10 PM New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there is no indication the air is unsafe to breathe, despite a mysterious gas-like odor that's covered parts of Manhattan and New Jersey.

Posted: 2:07 PM A state health official says a ten-block stretch of Downtown Austin, Texas, should reopen soon after preliminary air-quality tests showed no dangerous chemicals.

Posted: 2:06 PM There's a kink in the morning commute in Nashville.

Posted: 2:01 PM A Handful of states are getting high marks in a new study from a highway safety group.

Posted: 1:33 PM A family claiming the "Tigger" character hit their son at a Disney theme park just want an apology.

Posted: 1:24 PM A jail inmate in Nashville was found hanged in his cell over the weekend.

Posted: 1:20 PM What if there was life on Mars, but the space probes that were sent to look for it didn't recognize it? Or worse, what if they killed it?

Posted: 12:55 PM A forensic team has been called in to help investigate the discovery of human remains in Washington County.

Posted: 12:49 PM A yellow sign at the entrance to popular Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park carries a message, "very narrow, crooked, one-way road."

Posted: 12:43 PM Authorities say a Nashville, Tennessee, man who was combative and acting erratically outside a fort pierce gas station died after being tasered at least twice by police trying to restrain him.

Posted: 12:40 PM Vehicles and heavy-duty equipment are now responsible for producing more pollution in Middle Tennessee than factories do.

Posted: 12:38 PM A federal lawsuit accuses Claiborne County Sheriff David Ray of raping a 17-year-old girl while hunting for deer with her.

Posted: 12:36 PM An internal audit of the Shelby County Homeland Security Office shows the department incorrectly used funds from a state grant.