 01/16/10 Thomas talked about how America has changed in the last 50 years. About 90 percent of Southern blacks couldn't vote about 50 years ago and now Barack Obama is president, he said.
01/15/10 Congratulations to Alan Fowler of Alcoa, who is the winner of the final Daily Times Football Contest. Alan wins the first place prize of $400 by having the best entry in the special bowl game edition.
 01/15/10 Knoxville is about to be a test bed for a new all-electric, zero-emissions car and a network of charging stations to keep them on the road, officials with Nissan North America and others involved in the effort announced Friday.In December, about 900 cars and 2,500 charging stations will be coming to three Tennessee markets - Knoxville, Nashville and Chattanooga, said Katherine Zachary, corporate ...
01/14/10 It was the middle of the night, seven hours after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, when John Miller, a Knoxvillian who'd founded a nonprofit relief agency, anxiously dialed his friend, Haiti physician Francisco Noel."The first thing he said was, 'John, I'm homeless,' " Miller recalled Thursday.Noel and his wife, Cecile, had run from their home Tuesday evening just before the magnitude-7 ...
01/13/10 Dr. Donald Yates never missed an athletic event during his tenure as superintendent of Cleveland City Schools. Now, even after his death last summer, he will never have to miss another one again.
 01/13/10 Lane Kiffin's departure continues to send shockwaves through Tennessee's football roster.At least one junior is taking a closer look at making himself available for the NFL draft. Defensive end Chris Walker said one of the reasons he wanted to return to UT for his final season of eligibility was to work with the coaches who brought the best out of his game. Now defensive line coach Ed Orgeron ...
01/12/10 The hardware keeps piling up for the Alcoa High School football team. The six-time defending state champion Tornadoes were recognized Monday night as the nation's 49th-best high school football team for the 2009 season on the fifth annual MaxPreps Tour of Champions.
01/11/10 In observation of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, the Center for Strong Communities (CSC) at Maryville College and the Black Student Association (BSA) are hosting events inspired by the works of the civil rights leader.
 01/09/10 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Phil Bredesen said Friday that he has committed spending $6 million on an economic initiative that involves getting about....
 01/08/10 Speaking Friday to the Knoxville, Oak Ridge and Blount County chambers of commerce, Gov. Bredesen praised the state Legislature's commitment to 'education first' and recognized state Sen. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, as one of Tennessee's leading voices in education. He also referenced an ambitious plan that will help the longstanding Oak Ridge-University of Tennessee partnership 'realize its ...
 01/08/10 Gov. Phil Bredesen has committed to spend $6 million to create 200 University of Tennessee faculty positions among researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
01/08/10 Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Friday an initiative to establish a "world-class graduate energy sciences and engineering program" at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The program would, over the next few years, create 200 UT faculty positions staffed by researchers at the lab and double the number of doctoral degrees awarded by the university.Bredesen also wants to ...
01/08/10 Transportation officials in Nashville said Thursday that a light snow across Tennessee was making some roads icy and slippery, and the Blount County area was no exception. Alcoa City, Blount County and Maryville City schools have already announced that they will not have classes on Friday.
01/07/10 An in-cruiser video camera captured the traffic stop of four University of Tennessee basketball players during which two guns and a bag of marijuana were found."The traffic stop was recorded," Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Thursday.DeBusk, however, declined to say what was on the recording. He also declined to say if the recording confirmed police accounts of the ...
01/07/10 Each year, about 100 million Americans make a New Year's resolution. A 2008 Franklin Covey survey showed that 35 percent of Americans broke their resolution before the end of January. Of those surveyed, 33 percent said that they weren't committed to the resolutions that they set. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 30 percent of Tennesseans were obese in 2008. Don't be a ...
01/02/10 The past 12 months have been tumultuous for the entire United States, and Blount County was no different. The economy slumped, the swine flu reared its ugly head, loved ones were sent off to war, there were crimes, murders and all sorts of negative things going on all around us.
01/01/10 U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Russell Jones won't be honeymooning with his wife, Joyce, this year.Instead, the newlyweds will spend the next several months separated by thousands of miles as he enters a combat zone in Afghanistan and she prays for him at home."You just try to be supportive and stay strong," Joyce Jones said Friday. "It's hard, but you have faith."Cpl. Jones, 21, was among three dozen ...
01/01/10 KNOXVILLE - Four University of Tennessee basketball players were arrested on drug and weapons charges today after a Knoxville police officer stopped the car they were riding in for speeding on Alcoa Highway near Kingston Pike.The four are: Cameron Tatum, who was driving the vehicle; Tyler Smith, who was sitting in the front seat; Melvin Goins, a rear seat passenger; and Brian Williams, also ...
 01/01/10 All four players were released from jail Friday evening, and the Knoxville Police Department confirmed they are not facing felony charges as police earlier indicated.
01/01/10 KNOXVILLE -- Four University of Tennessee basketball players were arrested on drug and weapons charges on Friday. A Knoxville police officer stopped the car the players were riding in for speeding on Alcoa Highway near Kingston Pike. | 
