Kingsport News

One at Knoxville, one at Kingsport draw raised eyebrows. Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:56 AM Two recent circumstances - one on the Republican side, one on the Democratic side - have crystallized skepticism concerning the value of straw votes, the kind usually taken at cattle-call receptions for candidates in this or that locality.

Retail gasoline prices in Knoxville rose and oil prices wavered Tuesday as a rising dollar kept crude from moving higher, after fresh economic data gave mixed signals on whether demand for oil will increase.

So it pains us to have to report that the most positive piece of news regarding the region's economy in recent memory is, in fact, inaccurate.

Hundreds turned out today to get autographs and meet 2008 GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee at a book-signing in West Knoxville.

Knoxville gasoline prices were unchanged for a third-consecutive day, while oil prices slipped Thursday as investors questioned whether the country would ever regain its appetite for petroleum.

A judge has banned two students from a high school campus in Rogersville after one was accused of circulating a video of a cat being stabbed.

A Mountain City, Tenn., man is listed as one of the 13 victims from Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

A well-known bookstore is being downsized and replaced by a newer chain. The Waldenbooks in Knoxville Center Mall and Kingsport are two of 200 Borders Group's mall stores closing in January , eliminating about 1,500 positions nationwide.

Students and other users of the Kingsport Center for Higher Education will be able to take advantage of distance learning opportunities, thanks in part to a $50,000 grant from AT&T. A new "smart classroom" funded by the grant was shown off Thursday during a news conference and ribbon cutting.

The Tennessee Economic Development Council announces its board officers for 2009-20010. Paul Latture and Holly Sears Weber from the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce were elected President and Middle Tennessee Representative by the membership at the TEDCa s annual fall conference held in Kingsport, TN.

Stalks slapped us. But we kept on marching. This rite of passage appeared endless and darn near impossible.

A Greene County man was charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses by Hawkins County authorities in connection with a shooting incident early Saturday near Rogersville.

A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon.

Attorney General Bob Cooper says landlords can ban their tenants from bringing firearms into their property even if they have handgun carry permits.

BLOUNTVILLE a ' An internal report by Sullivan County schools officials explains where whiskey taken from a school system warehouse came from.

A northeast Tennessee man serving five years in prison for attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old girl in Kentucky now faces eight more years after being sentenced on a child porn charge.

An elderly man backed his Buick through the front of a Chinese restaurant, injuring two diners.

A Surgoinsville man is behind bars today, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.

Murfreesboro City School Board is slated to set a salary range for the next schools director at its meeting tonight.

Sullivan County hopes to cut one of its biggest costs with a new retirement incentive plan the County Commission approved Monday.