Knoxville News

Tennessee's commissioner of labor is suing Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc. over the April firing of an employee who refused to clear weeds from a sewage-drenched septic tank bed at an interstate rest stop.

Appeals court cites lack of hearing before dismissal

By Robert Wilson, Saturday, August 30, 2008

MARYVILLE - The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that Blount County Schools erred in its 2006 firing of a Heritage High School teacher and that, in effect, Joseph "Joey" Bailey has been on the system's payroll ever since.

Knox County Schools has made a settlement offer to the mother of a Karns High School student who died after falling from the back of a pickup truck while moving furniture, the family's attorney has confirmed.

With Hurricane Gustav headed for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, Knoxville is bracing for a group of evacuees that could be here by Sunday, according to Knoxville-Knox County emergency management officials.

Gov. Phil Bredesen will visit Central High School next week to speak with students and teachers about a recent school shooting that left one student dead, according to the governor's office.

Interview with Eddie Nickerson, who is working on the Dusty Clark film In a Blink.

When James Cox was a boy he went to the circus and watched Gunther Gebel-Williams, the legendary Ringling Bros.

Luke and Petty Grieve inside Fountain City Pedaler, which opened last month at 4620 Old Broadway.

Morristown police this morning were investigating a crash that killed a motorcyclist on the road leading to Walters State Community College.

Jeremy DeBary, a senior at Maryville College, carries his food carefully to his table Thursday during lunch.

News Sentinel staff Originally published 12:24 p.m., August 29, 2008 Updated 12:28 p.m., August 29, 2008 A 17-year-old student at Austin-East Performing Arts and Sciences High School was arrested this morning ...

Knoxville police this morning were searching for a man suspected of three armed robberies within two hours.

Strickland retains chair; Knox winners sworn in

By Rebecca Ferrar, Originally published 09:47 a.m., August 29, 2008

A Knox County school system report on the death of 17-year-old Karns High School student Eric Law this month on the campus recommends two educators involved in the incident be fired.

The Skybox Bar in downtown Knoxville's Sunsphere opened to the public Thursday afternoon.

A Knoxville woman has been sentenced on animal cruelty charges after more than a dozen cats and dogs were found living in squalid conditions.

Records from two drug investigations that led to the arrests of innocent people shed little new light on how the misidentifications might have happened.

One month before he allegedly shot to death a fellow Central High School student in the cafeteria, 15-year-old Jamar B. Siler was accused in court records of disregarding every order imposed on him by a juvenile court judge.

A Powell man arrested Wednesday in the robbery of an Alcoa Long John Silver's restaurant may also be a suspect in other recent holdups of similar area restaurants, police said.

Millions of your tax dollars are going to provide cell phones for people who can't afford them.