Corryton News

Jerry Faulkner, left, the new president of Volunteer State Community College, chats with student hospitality major Michael Gould, 35, and sophomore radiology major Alexis Cherry, 19, on campus last week.

A 64-year-old Corryton man died in a single-vehicle crash in Grainger County that involved alcohol, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The $673,717,291 budget includes more funding for schools and public safety, but does not provide everything that Knox County Schools and the Knox County Sheriff's Office requested.

A judge is stacking a 35-year prison term onto the life sentence a convicted murderess is already serving in the slaying of a Corryton store owner because of her history of plotting to kill people.