Three veteran Knoxville Police Department officers have been promoted to advanced supervisory ranks. Sgt. Michael Dabbelt has been promoted to Lieutenant, while Officers Tim Campbell and Robert Cook have been promoted to Sergeant. Those three have accumulated over 40 years of combined law enforcement experience. Dabbelt joined the KPD in 2009 and was promoted to…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (KPD / WOKI) – Detectives with the Knoxville Police Department and Tennessee Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested Travis Dewayne Mitchell Jr. (DOB 08/28/78) on Friday, August 22 on federal child sex abuse charges. With the support of KPD Special Operations Squad personnel, Mitchell Jr. was taken into custody after he…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – The Knoxville Police Department is investigating after a video of a Knoxville officer punching a woman started circulating on social media. A representative with the department gave WVLT News a statement Friday. The video itself shows officers with their hands on multiple suspects. One of the officers, who…… MORE
OAK RIDGE, TN (TWRA/WOKI) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has confirmed the identity of the man recovered from Melton Hill Lake following a boating incident on Thursday afternoon. At approximately 9:20 a.m. today, August 22, 2025, a TWRA investigator located the body of Kim Daugherty, 53, of Clinton, using a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – The City of Knoxville is set to begin the next phase of construction on Pleasant Ridge Road. People from the area were invited to see the city’s plans for the future of the road. “There’s some pretty hairy areas that’s very dangerous,” Stuart Hall, who lives near Pleasant…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – Knox Area Rescue Ministries is now offering more services through their care clinic. KARM says it will be focusing in on the Mission District, helping the population of unhoused individuals. “It’s going to service almost a hotspot, you know, folks around this area need care in the evenings,”…… MORE
A search for a missing boater on Melton Hill continues today (Friday). Multiple agencies are on scene at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge searching for a boater who they say went missing yesterday (Thursday). Officials with the Oak Ridge Fire Department and the Oak Ridge Police Department are assisting TWRA with the search at…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A man is accused of breaking into apartments on UT’s campus. Knoxville police say the incidents occurred around 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning on Lake Avenue. Police say 25-year-old Bobby Crain broke a front window and entered an apartment. The residents in that apartment confronted him. Officers say that’s when Crain jumped onto…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Knoxville, TN (WVLT) The interim board of directors for the Knox County Juvenile Detention Center met for the second time Wednesday, focusing on some of the center’s partners. One of those partners — the Department of Children’s Services — revealed at the meeting that the state hadn’t approved the center.…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE 8/21: Ruby Whitehorn, a Lady Vols basketball player who is facing domestic assault and burglary charges, has been suspended from the team indefinitely. That news, confirmed Thursday, August 21 by women’s basketball associate director, Eric Trainer. According to charging documents, officers went to a house on Earnhart Way in Halls earlier…… MORE
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The Rick Barnes Emerald Youth Golf Classic presented by First Century Bank raises support for our ministry with Knoxville’s city young people. September 22nd – Holston Hills CC
Find out if you are orange or white for the Georgia game on September 13th. GO VOLS!
Join us for Golfing for Kidneys at Top Golf Knoxville on Thursday, September 18 | 2–5 PM!
The 105th Tennessee Valley Fair is here! September 5th-14th
Tune into The Vince Show weekdays from 12p-3p on NewsTalk 98.7!