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  • Pediatrician Says DCS Challenges Medical Opinions

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Spring Hill pediatrician says she has some sympathy as the Tennessee Department of Children's Services tries to sort through claims about children's welfare.Dr. Shontae Buffington serves as the fellow-at-large representing Middle Tennessee for the Tennessee chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.But Buffington also told The Tennessean she is ...

  • Couples bodies found in their Blount County home

    LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Blount (blunt) County sheriff's spokeswoman says autopsies will be performed on the bodies of a couple found dead in their home in Louisville ...

  • Firefighters find body in burned Memphis house

    The Memphis Fire Department says 35 firefighters and other emergency personnel responded to a blaze Monday morning at a one-story house in the Uptown ...

  • Mayor Dean announces affordable housing program

    Nashville Mayor Karl Dean Mayor Karl Dean announced a trust fund for affordable housing at his State of Metro address today, a program that is forecast to generate 100 new affordable housing units. The Barnes Fund for Affordable Homes, named for fund advocate Rev. Bill Barnes, will be supported by $3 million in existing grants and will receive ongoing investments. The program will also focus on ...

  • Public welcome to offer input Tuesday on Knoxville budget

    So is it 183.1 million with the 31+million in bonded capital projects? Or is the actual budget 214.1million running a 31 million dollar debt? I liked some of the projects Prosser road and Lakeshore but can we request to see the Knoxville Zoo's account records since they are receiving 11 million from the ...

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Good Morning (Ohayo) [DVD]

Good Morning (Ohayo) [DVD]

Yasujiro Ozu's "Good Morning" ("Ohayo") is a quirky comedy of manners that is filled with fart jokes and comical misunderstandings and viewed mostly through the eyes of two young children who impose a vow of silence on themselves when their parents refuse to submit to the ultimate consumer enterprise of purchasing a television. Set in modern (late '50s) suburban Tokyo, "Good Morning" is an am ... ...

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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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