06/24/11 Gov. Bill Haslam has named two executives and re-appointed a former education official to the Tennessee State Board of Education.
06/24/11 Former Ooltewah assistant Doug Greene has been hired as the football coach at Rhea County.
06/22/11 Knox County teachers who excel in the classroom will earn bonuses beginning next year, a long overdue reward system that encourages improvement for all instructors.
06/21/11 The list of accomplishments for Philip Pfeifer, Nicky Delmonico and Parker Wormsley grew by a line late last week.
06/21/11 The man wanted for questioning in a midnight fire and a Blount County woman's killing threatened to kill another woman and burn down their home three years ago, court records indicate.
06/19/11 The second of two Shelbyville Team Camps this summer tips off today at various locations around Shelbyville. Some of the best girls high school basketball teams from across Tennessee and Alabama will...
06/18/11 The owners of Salon Visage are converting their salon on Market Square to a concept aimed at attracting more college and high school students.
06/18/11 An annual phenomenon in Tennessee is that many people only discover what the General Assembly has been doing after the deeds are done and the Legislature has gone home for the year.
06/17/11 An Alcoa intersection is one of five in the country to feature a diverging diamond traffic configuration. A heavily-traveled Sevierville site could be another.
06/14/11 Last week, the Oliver Springs Chapter of Disabled American Veterans had to remove dozens of large flags they set up along Alcoa Highway 62 after TDOT received a complaint that they could be a safety risk.
06/14/11 The month of June is a busy month for UT. With Destination ImagiNation finishing up and new student orientations beginning, Rupy Sawhney, associate professor and associate department head of the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, has had something else planned for the university. Working with the Institute of Technology ...
06/11/11 A statewide Civil War exhibition will debut this fall at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, just one of several upcoming events that will include a storytelling festival, barbecue and home tour.
06/10/11 The third annual Proud to Be An American Parade and Festival will take place beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday in downtown Maryville.
06/09/11 The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ended a decade-long legal wrangle between Blount County and ALCOA Inc. over the taxation of raw materials leaving the company with a $4.1 million tax bill. The company now owes $2.1 million in taxes to Blount County and a further $2 million to the city of Alcoa. The bill covers every tax year since 2001.
06/09/11 MARYVILLE - Culminating a decade-long process, Blount County and the city of Alcoa will be splitting $4.1 million from Alcoa Inc. for raw materials that should have been added onto the plant's property tax assessment.
06/09/11 Two people were injured in a hit-and-run accident at 4:14 p.m. Wednesday on Alcoa Highway near Green Acres Flea Market.
06/06/11 Governor Bill Haslam hopes a new law will help the state combat the growing meth problem. The I Hate Meth act implements a real time tracking system that finds people buying pseudo ephedrine to create and sell the dangerous drug.
06/05/11 NASHVILLE - There were smiles all around in a small cluster of business lobbyists in the Legislative Plaza hallway just after the Senate Finance Committee dealt with a bill that they had deemed bad for business in a late, end-of-session meeting. One of them even spun around, lifting a hand into the air, in a sort of celebratory victory dance.
06/04/11 June is often a brutal month for investors and it started on a rocky slope with the Dow Jones average falling nearly 280 points on Wednesday. Meanwhile, doubts build about U.S. economy as Wall Street watches.
05/28/11 Blount County Commissioner Jim Folts, Seat 7-B, and his supporters would have you believe that the county is overspending by at least $5 million based on a simple comparison with three other Tennessee counties. The reality is more complicated. | 
