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  • Knoxville Glove Company closing Friday after 99 years

    Knoxville Glove Co., which was founded in 1914, has as many as 350 employees at one time is now down to about 15, Townsend said. The company has made all manner of work ...

  • Steel company expands in Knoxville adds 40 new jobs

    An international steel company is expanding its business in Knoxville. On Monday, state officials joined representatives from Gerdau to announce they were adding a facility in the WestBridge Business Park where workers will take steel rebar manufactured at the current Lonsdale mill and apply finishing services for original equipment manufacturers. The new facility will create approximately 40 ...

  • San Antonio Spurs beat Memphis Grizzlies in Western Conference Finals Game 1 – video

    the San Antonio Spurs beat the Memphis Grizzlies 105-83 in Game 1 of their NBA Western Conference Finals at the AT&T Centre in San Antonio, Texas. Spurs coach Greg Popovich says his team did well to negate the impact of Grizzlies players Zach Randolph and Marc ...

  • Armed robber flees with Knoxville bank deposit

    Police were alerted at 11:12 p.m. Sunday of the heist at 4935 Millertown Pike, Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Monday ...

  • I-65 southbound shut down in Robertson County

    Both southbound lanes were closed Monday morning in Robertson County, affecting traffic heading for Nashville from Kentucky and northern Middle Tennessee. The site is at mile marker 111, north of White ...

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3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

In 3:10 to Yuma, Russell Crowe plays Ben Wade, the Old West version of the contemporary celebrity: charismatic, famous, and rotten to the core. Or is he? That is the central question around which this remake of the 1957 classic revolves, constantly teasing us with the question of w ... ...

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  • Union County DUI stop turns up 300 pounds of pot

    MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Union County Sheriff's Office deputies say the truck appeared to be driven by someone under the influence and they stopped ...

  • Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official vows not to screw it up

    This is a screenshot of on an animation that ran on Marissa Mayer's Tumblr about buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, which included a promise to run the blogging service as a separate business and "not to screw it up." Click the next panel to see the rejoinder to this acknowledgment about Tumblr users' unease over the deal. Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on ...

  • Yahoo to buy Tumblr for $1 billion

    David Karp, co-founder of Tumblr Inc. Photographer: Guy Calaf/Bloomberg Yahoo's board of directors reportedly approved buying the Tumblr blogging site in a $1.1 billion cash deal. The Wall Street Journal reported the board's action on Sunday. This is the biggest deal yet for CEO Marissa Mayer, after a series of smaller deals and acqui-hires since she took control last year. Tumblr is a ...

  • Gates takes back worlds richest man title

    Gates Bill Gates has regained his title as the richest person in the world. The founder of Microsoft Corp. passed Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim by a mere $550 million, making Gates the wealthiest person for the first time since 2007, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Gates' fortune is valued at $72.7 billion and was aided by significant rises in Microsoft stock. The stock has ...

  • Chattanooga festival expands smoke-free zone

    Friends of the Festival President Chip Baker saysinforming people of the restrictions will be a process. If someone lights up in a non-smoking area, the smoker will be handed a card explaining the new rules and will be directed to a place where smoking is ...

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