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KNOXVILLE — Police are investigating a shooting near downtown that wounded at least two people Saturday afternoon.

Several Anderson County commissioners say the plaintiffs that filed an ouster suit against law director Jay Yeager should be responsbile for the $65,000 legal bills Yeager incurred to defend himself.

In correspondence between the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the U.S. Department of Energy, the state has raised numerous issues and concerns regarding DOE's plans for a new nuclear landfill in Oak Ridge. TDEC is pushing DOE to consider other sites beyond the federal agency's preferred one, which is only 650 yards from the government's boundary.

The post-Thanksgiving hike will be 1-2:30 p.m. at Obed Wild and Scenic River. It's free, and well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome.

Tennessee has the second-highest percentage of adults with diabetes in the nation, and numbers keep growing nationally and locally.

KNOXVILLE — Two men face charges of second-degree murder after being indicted by a Knox County grand jury in a fatal drug overdose.

In an email and video, University of Tennessee Chanceloor Jimmy Cheek acknowleged that racist, sexist and other hateful acts go unreported at UT, but aren't acceptable.

UT's 4-H program packed 500 boxes Thursday during their annual Operation Christmas Child packing party.

A woman charged as a repeat drunk driver on a revoked license tried to get even by falsely accusing the Knox County Sheriff's Office deputy who arrested her of sexual battery, authorities said Friday.

U.S Senator Lamar Alexander in a brief news conference in Oak Ridge Friday said record federal funding expected in the new fiscal year for Department of Energy projects in Oak Ridge.