Strawberry Plains News

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has announced that the Driver Service Center located at 7320 Region Lane in Knoxville will temporarily close on Monday, June 4 and Tuesday, June 5 for facility renovations.

The University of Tennessee Center for Educational Leadership is recognizing five individuals for contributing significantly to education through innovative work, leadership, learning and service.

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel Six high school firefighter students from Sweden don full firefighter gear and prepare for a May 18 live burn training exercise at Rural/Metro Fire Station 26 in Strawberry Plains.

Good Samaritans: Offers have come flooding in from people offering to help 78-year-old Mary Cate Jones save her rural Strawberry Plains home of 56 years.

Offers have come flooding in from Good Samaritans offering to help 78-year-old Mary Cate Jones save her rural Strawberry Plains home of 56 years.

A lender has relented and enough help may be on the way to save a 78-year-old East Tennessee widow from eviction.

Special to the News Sentinel Christy Michel, Cash Michel and Matt Michel at their Circle G Ranch: Wild Animal Park & Camel Safari in Strawberry Plains.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department notice given to Mary Cate Jones, 78, stating she will be evicted from her home of 56 years at 8 a.m. Wednesday and the doors padlocked.

Low costs and small class sizes first attracted Davey Allen to Pellissippi State Community College, but now the high school senior adds location to the list of reasons he'll be attending the school this fall Allen, a senior at Carter High School, toured the new Strawberry Plains campus with his family at the building's first open house Tuesday.

An East Tennessee destination with an African safari feel has a new addition and it is quite unusual in the animal world.

For a week now, interstate commuters have watched the numbers of Tennessee roadway deaths rise by the day on the Tennessee Department of Transportation interstate signs.

Local 8 News has learned that one person has died in a late Thursday night crash on Interstate 40 at mile marker 397.