A 17-year-old male has been arrested and charged in connection to a Minnesota Avenue shooting that injured two on Tuesday night. At just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to an apartment at 1944 Minnesota Avenue in the Lonsdale Homes community. Once inside the apartment, officers located two…… MORE
White Pine, TN (WOKI) Multiple dogs and puppies are removed from a White Pine home and two people are taken into custody. Animal control and White Pine Police rescued four dogs and eight puppies from an abusive home at 1310 Tabitha Street Monday, July 28. Officers responded to the home for a possible code violation…… MORE
UPDATE (7/29/25): Stephen Goins is in custody after getting into a gunfight with a McMinn County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Riceville, according to Sheriff Joe Guy. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Guy said, when Corporal Nathan Stiles responded to a “shots fired” call he was told about while at the Dollar General store. Guy…… MORE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statements after their bipartisan bill to provide relief for impacted taxpayers in states that have issued state-level disaster declarations was signed into law by President Trump. The Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act allows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to postpone filing deadlines for taxpayers affected by state-declared natural disasters,…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The U.S. Marshals Service and the agency’s Smoky Mountains Task Force arrest a man Sunday wanted in connection to a New York homicide. Officials with the Marshals Service say 32-year-old Kyshonn Green was wanted after a deadly shooting Saturday at a Wegman’s warehouse in Gates, New York. Investigators learned that Green was…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The man wanted in a deadly Knoxville shooting earlier this month has been taken into custody. Knoxville Police Department officials say 28-year-old Wayne Parham was wanted for second-degree murder in the death of 48-year-old Michael Velazquez. Velazquez was found dead in the 800 block of Howard Baker Jr. Avenue on July 6.…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, TN – The Knoxville Fire Department (KFD) responded yesterday morning to a residential fire on Gillespie Avenue, marking the second electrical fire in just 48 hours caused by the overloading of a power strip. After an on-scene investigation, KFD fire investigators determined the cause of the fire on Gillespie Avenue to be the same…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) An investigation is underway following a house fire Wednesday morning in east Knoxville. Crews were called to the 1600 block of Gillespie Avenue just after 10:00 a.m. and found heavy smoke and fire coming from the home. Despite the home having a lot of materials in it, crews were able to extinguish…… MORE
A motorcyclist died following a crash that happened late Tuesday night in South Knoxville. At around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to the intersection of Chapman Highway and Woodlawn Pike to investigate a crash involving a pickup truck and motorcycle. The motorcyclist was transported from the scene to…… MORE
The Knoxville Fire Department is investigating a house fire in South Knoxville. Crews were called to the 200 block of Colonial Drive last night (Tuesday) and found light smoke coming from the side of the home. They were able to quickly put the fire out and officials say the home was empty and was under…… MORE
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