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Union workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant on Thursday ratified a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes a 3 percent wage increase in each of the contract’s five years and a $2,500 signing bonus.

Herb Byrd III was named University of Tennessee vice president for public service and leader of the Institute of Public Service, the university announced Thursday.

A bill in support of gender-neutral pronouns passed the University of Tennessee student government senate on Tuesday.

Narcotics may have been a factor in a T-bone collision that killed two women and injured two other people in Sevierville on Thursday morning, police said.

Deane Hille Drive remains closed Thursday after a collapsed drainage pipe that caused the road to sink.

When Stephanie Puckett realized the Lenoir City clinic at which she had been hired was a pill mill, she saw a chance to line her own pockets by catering to drug dealers who sent patients there, federal court records reveal.

Authorities say a Georgia man killed in a fiery crash while allegedly fleeing from Gatlinburg police had a stolen handgun and several other weapons with him at the time.

The doppelgänger didn't do it. That was a jury's conclusion Thursday after roughly five hours of deliberations in Knox County Criminal Court in the trial of 31-year-old Quentin Emmanuel Love.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. slammed the University of Tennessee on Thursday over a holiday party advisory that encourages students and faculty to "ensure your holiday party is not a Christmas party in disguise."