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The Knox County school board on Monday approved extending Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre’s contract to December 2019 during a special called meeting.

A Knoxville man remained in stable condition Monday following a rollover crash in North Knoxville last week that police attributed to speeding and reckless driving.

Tuesday is the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks' famous refusal to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. And two University of Tennessee experts say there's more to the story that people need to know.

Gov. Haslam invites everyone to the fifth annual open house of the Tennessee Residence.

Volunteers contributed more hours along the Appalachian Trail in 2015 than any year on record, according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

Claiborne County Sheriff David Ray said he hopes to file charges Tuesday in connection with the slaying last week of a 56-year-old man.

Authorities said speed and failure to wear a seat belt may have been factors in a single-vehicle crash that killed a Knoxville woman in West Knox County last week.

A woman jumped into oncoming traffic on Tazewell Pike the day after Thanksgiving in an apparent suicide attempt.

Knoxville fashion designer Marcus Hall today formally confessed his role in a $20 million numbers racket.

Authorities had one lane of U.S. 411 in Blount County reopened after a morning crash spilled 11 tons of sand on the road.