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  • W.Va.s local-food movement a model for Appalachia

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.Officials with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the U.S. Department of ...

  • Knoxville Tea Party supporters protest IRS

    Protesters stand outside the John J. Duncan Federal Building on Locust Street, which houses the Knoxville office of the IRS. About 20-30 people turned out for Tuesday's rally, organized by the Knoxville Tea Party, in protest of the recent IRS scrutiny of some conservative groups. (MATT LAKIN/NEWS ...

  • San Antonio Spurs take 2-0 lead over Memphis Grizzlies in Western Conference finals

    United States San Antonio squandered a big lead in the fourth quarter and had Tim Duncan to thank for settling its nerves in overtime, as the Spurs ground out a 93-89 win over the Memphis Grizzlies and took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.Up by 14 points in the final quarter, the Spurs failed to score in the last four minutes of regulation and were pushed to overtime by the ...

  • Charley Walters Phil Housley lands job as Nashville Predators...

    Coach Phil Housley takes charge of practice during the morning skate prior to the USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game in September 2012 in Buffalo, N.Y. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) Someday, I predict, Phil Housley will become head coach of the Wild. Housley, 49, the 1982 South St. Paul grad who just returned home from Stockholm as an assistant coach for the bronze-medal-winning ...

  • East Tennessee groups offer aid to Okla. tornado victims

    East Tennesseans are coming together to help those affected by the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma. The Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee will send 24 pallets of food and water to Oklahoma with the assistance of its charity partner, Feed America. Elaine Streno, the food bank's executive director, said the food pallets were leftover FEMA aid from the Hurricane Sandy relief ...

Movie Review

Hero (Ying ziong)

Hero (Ying ziong)

Martial arts sensation Jet Li may be the star of the film, but Yimou Zhang's Hero is not your ordinary action extravaganza, although there is more than enough balletic, gravity-defying swordplay to keep action fans enraptured. Instead, it is an epic visual poem that attempts to intertwine passion ... ...

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  • Severe Weather Threats Moves into Lower Great LakesTennessee Valley on Wednesday

    SPC AC 211705 DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1205 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 2013 VALID 221200Z - 231200Z ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE LOWER GREAT LAKES INTO THE OH/TN VALLEYS ...SYNOPSIS HIGH AMPLITUDE BLOCKING PATTERN IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER LOW CURRENTLY OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST MOVES SLOWLY EWD AND BEGINS TO PHASE ...

  • Downtown Knoxville library to close for HVAC repairs

    The cooling tower is the last piece of system equipment needing replacement for the at the building located at 500 W. Church Ave. Other repairs to the library's HVAC system were made in previous ...

  • Wife of Nashville Crewmember Questions Emotional Toll of Industry Work

    "She made Don smile because she told him he mattered. She shared in the loss and that he will be missed," Bensko wrote. "And she reminded me, a production wife, that there are good people in this industry who truly do wish that they could make it ...

  • Man pleads guilty to Memphis officers murder

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A former death row inmate is set to be released from prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of a Memphis police ...

  • How two Canadian sisters became stars on ABC’s Nashville

    can't get enough Stella. That would be Lennon Stella and Maisy Stella, the Canadian singing sister-act who've transcended the prime-time show on which they do not even star. A recent episode featured the precocious pair sweetly singing the ...

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