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  • Abandoned special needs woman inspires new Tennessee law

    Last June, authorities were called to a Campbell County bar when a young woman walked in. She couldn't tell anyone her name, where she was from, or how she got there. Investigators finally identified her as Lynn Cameron, 19, of Illinois. She is mentally disabled, with the mental capacity of a two-year-old. Her mother, they learned, was no longer able to care for her, so simply dropped her ...

  • Tea Party protests outside Knoxville IRS office

    Members of the Knoxville Tea Party organized the rally at the steps of the John J. Duncan Federal Building on Locust Street, which houses the agency's local office. The rally was intended as a protest against recent revelations of the IRS scrutiny of some conservative groups but open to all comers, said James Arthur, vice chair of the Knoxville Tea ...

  • House passes 2-year moratorium on dam barriers

    FRANKFORT, Ky. - The U.S. House has passed legislation that would put a two-year moratorium on an Army Corps of Engineers plan to erect barriers to prevent people from fishing below dams on the Cumberland River.U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield heralded final passage of the Freedom to Fish Act on Tuesday. Whitfield was a leading proponent of the measure in the House.The bill, introduced by Sen. Lamar ...

  • Tennessee sends help to Oklahoma so can you

    A number of Tennesseans are on their way to Oklahoma to help with search and rescue and recovery efforts after Monday's devastating tornado. Early Tuesday, a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle left Chattanooga with a Knoxville volunteer for the 13 hour drive to Moore. Once there, they will provide hot meals and other relief supplies to tornado victims. Louie Crowe from Knoxville and ...

  • Powerful thunderstorms may rake East Tennessee this afternoon

    KNOXVILLE -- A line of thunderstorms packing 60 mph winds with the potential for large hail is making its way across Middle Tennessee and should hit East Tennessee later this afternoon, according to the National Weather ...

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The Verdict [DVD]

The Verdict [DVD]

It is interesting that Sidney Lumet's grim, but fully engrossing legal drama The Verdict was released theatrically the same weekend in 1982 as Walter Hill's 48 Hrs., an action-comedy that paired Nick Nolte with Eddie Murphy in his first major film role. 48 Hrs. is one of ... ...

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  • More women arrested for pain pills stresses jails

    http://bit.ly/13HXKj6 ) three of the four counties in his district have overcrowded jails, largely because of an increase in women being arrested. Johnson is the state prosecutor in Roane, Morgan and Meigs ...

  • Vanderbilt poll Tennesseans oppose online tax

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A new Vanderbilt University poll finds a majority of Tennesseans oppose the state enforcing online sales taxes, though respondents were split on whether the current system is fair to local ...

  • Study finds suburban poverty rate increasing in Memphis suburbs

    Discussions of poverty are often centered around urban blight among the nations inner cities, but a study released yesterday by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program should change that perception. In Memphis, for instance, the report found the percent change from 2000 to 2011 in the number of poor Memphians was 33.4 percent within the city limits and 42.5 percent in the ...

  • Toby Keith says Okla. hometown is resilient

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tornadoes are a part of life in Moore, Okla., something country star Toby Keith was reminded of when a deadly, devastating one leveled parts of his hometown on Monday."It's happened so many times through my life, I've been in so many," Keith said in a phone interview Tuesday. "During my life, probably on average every four or five years, you probably ...

  • Storms from Okla. weakening as they move to Tenn.

    Meteorologist Brittney Coleman with the NWS office in Nashville said high wind and hail are the major threats with the storm system. The probability of severe storms is most likely from the Mississippi River to Interstate ...

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