UPDATE: KPD Crisis Negotiators are actively speaking with the man who is barricaded inside of the E. Caldwell Avenue home. The man has an outstanding warrant for aggravated domestic assault from the incident that occurred earlier this morning. Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Crisis Negotiators with the Knoxville Police Department are at a North Knoxville home in…… MORE
PHILADELPHIA, Tenn. (courtesy of WVLT) – Two volunteer coaches at Philadelphia Elementary School are now under investigation after the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant. Cody Bengel with LCSO released a statement Thursday afternoon explaining what happened. According to the statement, investigators with the Criminal Investigations Division searched a home on Jan. 9…… MORE
Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen says a man has been convicted in a death during a standoff with Knoxville Police. 76-year-old John Deloach reportedly pulled a revolver during an argument, killing a bystander in May of 2023. He barricaded himself in a Wilderness Road home, prompting a standoff with KPD. He was convicted…… MORE
Tennessee Athletics earns almost a quarter-billion dollars in revenue for the 2024 fiscal year. It’s a new record for the athletics department. The Vols brought in just over $234 million dollars beating last year’s total of $202 million. This year, ticket sales brought in almost $47 million. That’s almost 8 million dollars from the year…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Several Knoxville firefighters are suing the city, claiming they’re being underpaid under the city’s employee payment plan. Attorney Richard Collins filed the lawsuit on Jan. 13 on behalf of Kevin Faddis, Shawn Langley, Stephen Mitchell, Gregory Phillips, Robert Pollard and Christopher Smith. It’s a lawsuit that focuses…… MORE
TDOT receives funds road repair Helene The U.S. Department of Transportation is giving $350 million in funding to help make repairs to major interstates in Tennessee and North Carolina that sustained major damage during Hurricane Helene. As a part of a “quick release” from the Emergency Relief Fund, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is receiving…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A driver for Amazon escapes injury after crashing into a church outbuilding Sunday in Knoxville. Knoxville Police Department officials say officers responded to the scene on an icy Yarnell Avenue Sunday afternoon. According to KPD, the truck slid on the ice covered roadway after the driver parked it, hitting a church’s outbuilding.…… MORE
Updated Story: (Oak Ridge, TN WOKI) Oak Ridge Police are releasing the names of a father and daughter who died as the result of a crash into an Oak Ridge grocery store on Saturday morning. On Saturday, January 11, 2025, at approximately 8:55 a.m., a vehicle traveling northbound on South Rutgers Avenue near Manhattan Avenue…… MORE
NASHVILLE—Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti secured a nationwide victory today against the Biden Administration’s illegal and unconstitutional Title IX rules. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that the U.S. Department of Education’s Title IX rules—rules that would have compromised girls’ privacy in locker rooms and bathrooms and required teachers and administrators to use…… MORE
A Knoxville lawyer is claiming that his client died after being hit and stun gunned while at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility. Lance Baker said in a statement to WVLT News 46-year-old David Batts died after his arrest on January 7th. Knoxville Police were called to the Knoxville Area Transit hub, where Batts worked…… MORE
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Don’t miss Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons “The Last Encores” Tour Friday, February 14th Knoxville Civic Coliseum!
Join the YWCA for the 29th Annual YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Diversity Day and Race Against Racism on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at the Phyllis Wheatley Center!
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