Posted: 9:39 AM Obligato is holding two "Wrap-up" days to support babies in the NICU's and their families.

Posted: 3:09 PM These are a few photos we aired on Local 8 News This Morning of our tiniest viewers as they headed out trick-or-treating!

Updated: 9:12 AM Hurricane Isaac is still raging on the Gulf Coast, and local people are coming to the aid, including a non-profit organization called The Lord's Child out of Sevierville.

Updated: 7:54 AM The kickoff to Knoxville Fashion Week is Wednesday, August 15th at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse from 5-9pm.

Posted: 3:50 AM Seven year old Piper Smith needs a life saving kidney transplant. Several fundraisers like "Painting with a Twist" on Tuesday, August 7th will help pay her costly medical expenses.

Updated: 1:48 AM After organizing several cash mobs to spur shoppers to visit local businesses, Knox Co. Mayor Tim Burchett now wants to support locally-owned restaurants with monthly "Lunch with the Mayor" events.

Posted: 1:40 AM Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

Posted: 1:10 AM The Knoxville Zoo will open two new habitats on Saturday for African Lions and Hamadryas Baboons.

Posted: 1:03 AM Breastfeeding mothers in the area and those interested will have an opportunity to learn about breastfeeding and take part in the worldwide "Big Latch-On" on Friday.

Posted: 6:48 AM A few hundred Nashville residents were told to leave their homes after a natural gas line ruptured in a neighborhood.

Updated: 6:31 AM Publix Supermarket opens its first store in Knoxville on Thursday.

Updated: 5:40 PM Tennessee's annual sales tax holiday kicks off Friday morning. Retailers around town have posted signs, planned sales, and even extended hours.

Posted: 5:19 AM A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily prohibited Arizona from enforcing its new ban on most abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Posted: 5:15 AM US Airways said that it is working with federal officials to investigate a newspaper report that three commuter jets narrowly averted a midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Updated: 5:04 AM Rainer Reinscheid was into his second bottle of wine when he wrote a chilling email titled, "a good plan," detailing violent revenge on the people he blamed for his teen son's suicide.

Posted: 4:05 AM The Tennessee Department of Education is revising teacher licensing standards.

Updated: 3:46 PM A family and consumer specialist with the University of Tennessee Extension suggests a careful inventory before doing back-to-school shopping.

Posted: 8:15 AM A Monroe County man died after being ejected from his pickup truck Tuesday night in Madisonville.

Posted: 6:04 AM Michael Phelps cruised through the anchor leg of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay to earn his record 19th career Olympic medal and 15th gold on Tuesday night.

Posted: 5:42 AM It was December 1979 when Emery Lucier learned the concert he was eagerly awaiting in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who had been canceled over safety concerns.

Updated: 5:40 AM The author, playwright, politician and commentator Gore Vidal died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles.

Posted: 5:38 AM It sounds like an unfolding epidemic: A decade ago, virtually no one in the U.S. seemed to have a problem eating gluten in bread and other foods. Now, millions do.

Posted: 5:26 AM They got hitched while still in their teens, divorced 20 years and four children later, and are getting remarried after nearly a half-century apart.

Posted: 5:24 AM The real estate listing reads like a Wild West exhibit: An old gold mine, a geyser, and a supposed hideout of famed outlaws.

Posted: 5:21 AM FISH Hospitality Pantries and a local 13-year-old will team up again on Wednesday to raise money to provide food for those in need.