07/09/11 To get to the ending you have to go back to the beginning and that would be May 1 on Norris Lake. That was the day a group of seniors from Powell High School were wiling away the day after their prom, fishing and boating and just generally doing what teenagers do.
05/23/11 BLAINE - Two people were killed Monday in a two-vehicle wreck that closed U.S. Highway 11W for several hours, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
05/19/11 By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com For the past 20 years, Heinrich L. Wirz of Bremgarten, Switzerland, has made it a personal quest to learn as much as he can of an ancestor who became an infamous figure in the American Civil War. In roughly ...
04/29/11 CLINTON - Called in to the sheriff's department hours after his mother-in-law's brutal slaying was discovered, Robert Edward Fritts gave a handwritten alibi to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent Andy Corbitt.
04/23/11 Springfield sent many men to serve in the Union ranks.A walk through Ferncliff Cemetery can serve as a history lesson about those who served.
04/22/11 Knoxville police are investigating an armed robbery reported Friday morning in South Knoxville.
04/22/11 April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the War Between The States. Opinions expressed while researching local Civil War soldiers for this tribute were various. What does it matter now? One hundred fifty years, seems like eons ago. How is the personal sacrifice of families so long ago, relative to life today?
02/14/11 CLINTON - A former Anderson County commissioner and longtime school employee was found dead in the driveway of his Andersonville area home early Sunday, officials said.
01/28/11 ROCK HILL, S.C. - The Lincoln Memorial University baseball team was picked to finish 6th in the South Atlantic Conference preseason baseball poll released Tuesday afternoon by the conference office in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
01/15/11 Nine national parks in the southeast are encourage young visitors and their families to visit areas where the Civil War unfolded.
12/09/10 NORRIS - Pieces of family history that make up America's Civil War past were unwrapped, examined and recorded Thursday as a part of a four-year state preservation project.
12/01/10 A summer resident camp in Sullivan County used for generations by local Girl Scout troops will stand vacant in 2011 after a decision to move activities to Andersonville.
11/30/10 OAK RIDGE - For Oak Ridge Police Sgt. Matt Tedford, it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
10/03/10 Cherie Priest's new book "Dreadnought" is the Seattle author's latest installment in her Clockwork Century series, a steampunk-influenced tale of a Civil War nurse, a behemoth train and 500 fighting Mexican infantrymen who may be zombies. Priest reads Tuesday at Seattle's University Book Store.
10/03/10 Political odds and ends: Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, Republican nominee for governor, and his Democratic opponent, Jackson businessman Mike McWherter, will debate at 8 p.m. Thursday on the University of Tennessee campus as part of their campaign leading up to the Nov. 2 election.
10/01/10 Republican Congressional candidate Chuck Fleischmann continued to come under attack this week on a range of issues from the style of his primary campaign to his reported refusal to debate his opponents.
08/24/10 NASHVILLE -- Chattanooga's Larry McGill fired an ever-par 71 here Tuesday and is in third place after the first day of the 40th TGA State Senior Amateur Golf Championship at the Vanderbilt Legends Club.
08/15/10 Chuck Fleischmann, a Chattanooga lawyer who won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District, plans to visit the district Wednesday and Thursday as a thank-you to supporters and part of an effort to unify other Republicans.
07/22/10 CLINTON - When he greets you, 11-year-old Stone Seiber of Andersonville looks you straight in the eye and firmly shakes your hand.
07/03/10 Whether it's the traditional parades and fireworks shows or the not-so-traditional act of shooting an anvil in the air with a bag of gunpowder, East Tennessee offers a variety of Fourth of July events to celebrate the nation's independence. |