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  • US 11 yard sale continues in East Tennessee

    The US 11 Antique Alley and Yard Sale will continue to weave its way through East Tennessee Sunday. The event, which follows US 11 for more than 500 miles, through five states, was first projected to bring anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people to the counties it visits. Robin Zimmerman made the trip to East Tennessee from Georgia. She said she and her husband have traveled for the sale 10 ...

  • Knoxville hosts national cornhole tournament

    The American Cornhole Organization chose Wild Wing Cafe to host it's Knoxville Cornhole Open on Saturday night. More than one hundred people turned out from seven different states for the chance to take home a $5,000 pot. The ACO is hoping to have another major tournament in Knoxville later this ...

  • Two men arrested for slaying of Knoxville man

    Shields, Fooks and Griffin were inside a Knoxville home shortly before 4:30 a.m. Friday, and Griffin wanted to buy heroin, according to a police complaint. Shields and Fooks drew guns, and Shields took some money from Griffin, police said. A witness inside the home told police that after a brief argument, Fooks shot Griffin. Police also charged Fooks with illegal firearms ...

  • Knoxville celebrates biscuit fest

    Downtown Knoxville transformed into a southern kitchen Saturday to celebrate the fourth annual biscuit festival. The smell of freshly baked bread filled the air. Thousands of people enjoyed a staple of southern cuisine, sweet and savory biscuits. A wide array of flavored biscuits filled Market Square. Flavors ranged from garlic and cheese "bo-nuts", a biscuit take on doughnuts, and ...

  • Michelle Obama gives graduation speech at Nashville HS

    NASHVILLE (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22-minutes to the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School in Nashville in her only high school graduation speech this year. The first lady told the 170 ...

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John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter [Blu-Ray]

John Carter, an ambitious science-fantasy spectacle based on Edgar Rice Burroughss 1912 serialized novel A Princess of Mars, is an awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hung ... ...

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  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade

    Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...

  • Witnesses Car drives into crowd at Va. parade

    Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother's Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate ...

  • Single Game Tickets for Games 3 and 4 of Western Conference Finals are sold out

    The Memphis Grizzlies have announced that single game tickets for Games 3 and 4 of the 2013 Western Conference Finals vs. the San Antonio Spurs at FedExForum have sold out. This marks the 16th and 17th consecutive home sellout for Grizzlies playoff games dating back to the beginning of the 2011 NBA Playoffs. The 2013 Grizzlies Playoffs are presented by Memphis Toyota Dealers, First Tennessee ...

  • Grizzlies announce expanded coverage of Western Conference Finals

    SportSouth and FOX Sports Tennessee (FS TN) will expand their coverage of the Memphis Grizzlies and the 2013 Western Conference Finals with special playoff editions of Grizzlies Live after every game on SportSouth and pregame shows before Games 2, 3, 4 and ...

  • Victims advocate now helps rehabilitate offenders

    For more than two decades, she has been an advocate for crime victims in Middle Tennessee. Working through the victims' organization You Have the Power, she has demanded tough sentencing and helped victims navigate the often-confusing and intimidating judicial system. She served as the organization's executive director for more than 10 ...

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