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Two years ago, leaders of turf grass science and management at the University of Tennessee decided to take the program’s visibility into their own hands and hired a communications coordinator. Scott Boyle, a Navy veteran, brought with him the Navy’s recruitment strategy of “enhanced targeted visibility.”

A Clinton man was arrested and charged with robbing a woman at gunpoint at an Anderson County park, authorities said.

Knoxville today will hold a Landlord Summit for property owners and managers across the city who want to make their rental homes more affordable and energy-efficient for tenants.

NASHVILLE — The incentives package negotiated to bring Advanced Munitions International to Blount County total about $26.6 million, excluding local property tax abatements by the county and the city of Alcoa, according to a copy of the incentives agreement obtained by The News Sentinel.

Intricate, brightly-colored Victorians and restored Craftsman homes cluster in an 10-block historic zoning overlay in the heart of Parkridge.

A wanted fugitive with seven outstanding warrents was captured in Oak Ridge Wednesday.

Fresh from a short stint behind bars courtesy of a plea deal, former Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe now wants to block prosecutors from what he terms needless snooping through his financial records and those of his family.

An Oliver Springs woman received a two-year prison sentence Wednesday for repeatedly pistol-whipping her sister-in-law.

Anderson commissioners voted to seek a one-year lease extension for an Oak Ridge building now used as the General Sessions Courtroom.

Two Knoxville teenagers were arrested and charged in connection to weekend shooting death.