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City of Knoxville offers annual Business Breakfast

Business owners interested in bidding on contracts worth millions of dollars with the city of Knoxville are invited to the city's annual Business Breakfast, to be offered at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Knoxville Civic ...
Neighbor fights fire in West Knoxville apartment

A fire at a West Knoxville apartment complex had neighbors springing into action Tuesday evening. Witnesses saw smoke pouring from one of the units at Cedar Springs Apartments at Gleason Drive and Gallaher View Road. Jonathan Wright, who was walking outside with his girlfriend, said he ran into the burning apartment to make sure no one was inside. He said neighbors then handed off fire ...
Worlds Fair Park talks start among Knoxville developers UT and city staff

Cousins William Ross, left, and Ella Ross play on the tire swing at the playground at World's Fair Park on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The World's Fair Park Working Group met today to discuss potential for the park to be a center for cultural resources. (SAUL YOUNG/NEWS ...
June showers keep dropping on Knoxville

J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Marshall West and his twin 5-year-old sons, Jackson, left, and Pruitt, brave the rain as they head to watch the new Superman movie ';Man of Steel'; on Tuesday at Knoxville Center ...
Nashville Music Guru T Bone Burnett Wont Return for Season 2

'Nashville' Cast, Creators Offer 10 Teasers on the Hurdles to Come (Exclusive Videos) The show's executive music producer will not be returning to the ...

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I Am Curious—Yellow (Jag är nyfiken—en film i gult) [DVD]

I Am CuriousYellow would mostly likely be a forgotten movieleft somewhere in the multitudinous ranks of 1960s experimental avant-garde films that mix sex and politicsif the U.S. Customs Office hadnt seized the first copy being imported by its distributor, Grove Press, into the United States in 1968. In its misguided attempt to protect decent American citizens from Swedish obscenity, the gov ... ...

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FBI Airline passenger said there was a bomb

DENVER (AP) -- A preliminary hearing is scheduled Thursday for a Colorado man accused of telling a flight attendant there was a bomb in his backpack on a flight from Knoxville, Tenn., to ...
Records sought in fungal meningitis outbreak

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three Tennessee clinics have received subpoenas for documents related to drugs from a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak last ...
Crash involving semi slows traffic in West Knoxville

A crash a little before noon Tuesday created delays for some drivers in West Knoxville. The wreck happened at I-640 Westbound near I-40. It involved a semi-truck and a sedan. A 10News viewer reported waiting in traffic for an hour. By 1:00pm, crews had cleared the accident scene. At this time, there is no information on possible injuries of the drivers involved in the ...
Brothers Sought for 1-Year-Olds Shooting

JACKSON, TN (localmemphis.com) - Jackson police are searching for two brothers accused of a shooting that sent a one-year-old to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, June 17, at The Villages Apartments in Jackson, Tennessee. Investigators say there was a confrontation involving Tony and Justin Byrd, who are ...
Lennar makes foray into Nashville market

Miami-based Lennar Corp. said it has expanded homebuilding operations into the Nashville, Tenn., market, acquiring control of about 40 homesites in the Tollgate Village community.Lennar said its new venture into Nashville is overseen by Andy Pfeifer, who is a 12-year Nashville homebuilding veteran. Lennar’s move into Tennessee is part of a recent strategic expansion that includes Atlanta, ...

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Cauvery Supervisory Committee rejects TN demand for its share of water

The Cauvery Supervisory Committee has rejected Tamil Nadu's demand for its share of water saying that it is not feasible due to the deficit in inflows and very low storage level in the reservoirs in Karnataka.

The Committee meeting, chaired by Union Water Resources Secretary S K Sarkar here last evening, saw representatives of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu sparring over the water-sharing of the Cauvery river.

However, a meeting of the Committee scheduled for the first week of July would review the situation.

The meeting noted that availability of water was very small as compared to the average and even less than that of last year's storage.

It hoped the water availability would improve during the monsoon which was expected to be good.

It was noted that inflows in Karnataka was about 85 per cent deficit of the normal and the flow at Biligundulu is also 75.4 per cent deficit with respect to normal flows.

"Looking at the data as cited above such as the deficit in inflows and very low storages in the reservoir in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the request of Tamil Nadu for release of water by Karnataka was considered and found not feasible as of now," the meeting concluded.

While Tamil Nadu demanded a total of 63 thousand million cubic feet (tmc) of Cauvery water, Karnataka said it had no water to spare for the neighbouring state. ...