Maynardville News

Personnel records show two men who resigned as Knoxville police officers Tuesday have minor work offenses.

A youth volunteer at a Knox County church allegedly kept photos of children engaged in sexual activities and is accused of sexual acts with a boy younger than 13, according to court records.

A man and woman from Knoxville were injured Saturday, June 27 on Douglas Lake when two bass boats collided.

A local official in East Tennessee has become the second from Union County to plead guilty to federal charges of buying votes in the 2006 election.

Storm damage is being reported Knox and surrounding counties. A tree is reported down on Norris Freeway at Weaver Cemetery Road in Knox County.

When Union County High School athletic director John Edds called Shane Brown on Tuesday night to offer him the boys' basketball head coaching job, Brown told Edds he needed an hour to think.

At most cemeteries, there are rules which are in place to maintain uniformity. But Leanna Baker would like to see the rules relaxed at Pleasant View Cemetery in Maynardville, where her husband is buried.

MAYNARDVILLE- It took 24 years for Paul House to find some justice. It will take even longer for justice to come for Carolyn Muncey.

MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. Prosecutors have dropped charges against a former inmate who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before the U.S. Supreme Court questioned his guilt.

Union County school administrators hope an air conditioner fire Thursday morning at Maynardville Elementary will help their push for new schools to be built.

A fire apparently ignited Thursday morning in a portable building at Maynardville Elementary School, but dispatchers say the fire was quickly put out, leaving only smoke in the area.

An air conditioner caught fire Thursday morning in a portable unit at Maynardville Elementary School.

The students, teachers, and staff at Maynardville Elementary were briefly evacuated from the building Thursday morning, after an air conditioner fire.

In Maynardville Friday night the community came together for a landmark event. It was the kick-off for a new partnership between the public and the schools called Success Union County.

Union County educators have proposed a more than $13 million plan to replace Maynardville Elementary , an overcrowded and outdated school, but county commissioners are not sold on it.

Richard Johnson Brownlow, left, and Will Brownlow IV visit the grave of their ancestor, William Gannaway Brownlow, a Unionist and "fighting parson" who served as Tennesseea s first Republican governor.

Maynardville Elementarystudents lose 30 percent of the time they're supposed to spend in the classroom in the hallway, getting from class to class.

A new program called "Success Union County" aims to make sure kids of all ages are given the tools and motivation to pursue higher education.

Union County Schools will likely benefit from $800,000 in stimulus money, but there are strings attached.

One of my recent field trips took me 45 minutes north of downtown to a place called Sharps Chapel.