Mascot News

Harvey Young speaks about a proposed Norfolk Southern truck-train facility in Jefferson County during a community meeting hosted by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

Knox County has spent millions of dollars on Eastbridge Industrial Park. It sits on Mine Road in Mascot with hundreds of acres of expensive graded land still empty.

Jefferson County residents are asking Norfolk Southern Railroad executives to change their minds about a plant to build an intermodal transport facility in the New Market area.

Truck/Rail Terminal and Industrial Park. This simply means that they want to condemn and take people's farms and land and houses.

A couple found passed out in a van in Mascot Wednesday night was arrested for child abuse by Knox County sheriff's detectives.

A tree trimming company employee from Smyrna has been charged in the traffic death of a motorcyclist in Knoxville.

KNOXVILLE - Officials say motor vehicle accidents are the No. 1 killer of children in Tennessee - with the state's fatality rate nearly 50 percent higher than the national average.

Officials say motor vehicle accidents are the No. 1 killer of children in Tennessee - with the state's fatality rate nearly 50% higher than the national average.

Rivers & Spires, the free downtown annual festival that gets bigger and more popular every year, kicks off tonight with two competitions and three bands.

A head-on collision in Knox County turns deadly. It happened on Mine Road in Mascot about 9:45 Friday night.

Knox County Officers say two women have died in a head-on crash in Northeast Knox County.

Two women died in East Tennessee when the vehicles their husbands were driving crashed head-on. The wreck occurred Friday night in the Mascot community of Knox County.

A wreck involving a minivan and a pickup left one person dead and three others hurt late Friday night, according to Knox County Sheriff's deputies.

Knox County Sheriff's deputies are looking for two home invasion suspects--one of whom may have been shot.

Casey Collins holds her baby Lacy Laycock on Thursday at Fort Sanders Medical Center.

The economic impact of closing East Tennessee Zinc Co. mines in Jefferson and Knox counties will be hard to gauge, but it will seep into many aspects of life in a community where mining has been a major ...

The East Tennessee Zinc Company will stop mining zinc at its four East Tennessee mines on February 3, 2009, and the company says it will instead convert the mines' operations to "care and maintenance status," ...