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App ranks Knoxville as top city for 4th of July activities

Knoxville showed it's the best at showing off its red white and blue, according to the social media app Foursquare. According to data collected by Foursquare, Knoxville rated the highest of any American city for Fourth of July activities. From fireworks to parades and everything in between, Knoxvillians will have the most to do this Independence Day. Texas might be the most patriotic ...
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Two people shot on Amanda Street in Knoxville

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Grizzlies announce Summer League Schedule

Featuring 22 teams competing in a 61-game schedule, the NBA Summer League 2013 in Las Vegas will debut a tournament-style schedule that will crown the first-ever NBA Summer League Champion on Monday, July 22. Teams will play three preliminary games - and at least five games total - with all games taking place at the Thomas & Mack Center and COX Pavilion on the campus of the University of ...

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Fiat-Chrysler CEO hints Tennessee could be home for headquarters

Would Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne seriously consider moving the combined company's headquarters to Tennessee once the merger of the two automakers is completed? Speculation that Marchionne would pull Fiat out of Italy or the firmly entrenched Chrysler out of its longtime Auburn Hills, Mich., home has been swirling in the auto industry and economic development circles since ...
Best May Ever for Smokies Visits

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The mountains were a popular destination last month.The National Park Service said the Great Smoky Mountains National Park had nearly 886,000 visitors in May — the most ever in any May. The number was up by 10.5 percent, or more than 86,000 people, from May 2012.Year-to-date visitation is down by 5.5 percent from the five-year average, however. For the first ...
Singer asks forgiveness from Chattanooga in video

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Supreme court justice to speak at Belmont

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Belmont University College of Law has announced that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will speak at the school's first graduation next ...
NRC proposing $70K fine against TVA for violations

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing a $70,000 fine against the Tennessee Valley Authority for violations related to one of its East Tennessee nuclear ...

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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. ...