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  • Tennessee Congressmen struggling with internet sales tax decision

    Gov. Bill Haslam wants states to have the power to collect the tax, arguing it is money that is already owed. Some small businesses in Duncan's Knoxville-based congressional district take the same position and say it's a matter of fairness: They already are required by law to collect the tax and send it to the state, but out-of-state online retailers are ...

  • Medical emergency eyed in Va. parade crash

    View Photo Associated Press/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk - Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ...

  • Record-high 647 students graduate from Union during spring commencement

    Rachel Carbonell was the winner of this year's Elizabeth Tigrett Medal, announced during Union's spring commencement ceremony May 18. (Photo by Morris ...

  • US 11 yard sale continues in East Tennessee

    The US 11 Antique Alley and Yard Sale will continue to weave its way through East Tennessee Sunday. The event, which follows US 11 for more than 500 miles, through five states, was first projected to bring anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people to the counties it visits. Robin Zimmerman made the trip to East Tennessee from Georgia. She said she and her husband have traveled for the sale 10 ...

  • Knoxville hosts national cornhole tournament

    The American Cornhole Organization chose Wild Wing Cafe to host it's Knoxville Cornhole Open on Saturday night. More than one hundred people turned out from seven different states for the chance to take home a $5,000 pot. The ACO is hoping to have another major tournament in Knoxville later this ...

Movie Review

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Pier Paolo Pasolini's "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," certainly ranks as one of the most unexpected films of all time, considering that the film's writer/director was a marxist who rejected all forms of organized religion, especially Christianity. So why did Pasolini make such a film? There are a number of reasons, including his love and respect for his mother, who was a devoted Catholic, a ... ...

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  • Two men arrested for slaying of Knoxville man

    Shields, Fooks and Griffin were inside a Knoxville home shortly before 4:30 a.m. Friday, and Griffin wanted to buy heroin, according to a police complaint. Shields and Fooks drew guns, and Shields took some money from Griffin, police said. A witness inside the home told police that after a brief argument, Fooks shot Griffin. Police also charged Fooks with illegal firearms ...

  • Knoxville celebrates biscuit fest

    Downtown Knoxville transformed into a southern kitchen Saturday to celebrate the fourth annual biscuit festival. The smell of freshly baked bread filled the air. Thousands of people enjoyed a staple of southern cuisine, sweet and savory biscuits. A wide array of flavored biscuits filled Market Square. Flavors ranged from garlic and cheese "bo-nuts", a biscuit take on doughnuts, and ...

  • Michelle Obama gives graduation speech at Nashville HS

    NASHVILLE (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22-minutes to the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School in Nashville in her only high school graduation speech this year. The first lady told the 170 ...

  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade

    Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...

  • Witnesses Car drives into crowd at Va. parade

    Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother's Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate ...

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