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NASHVILLE — A Republican state legislator from Kingsport says he’s going to file a bill requiring Tennessee students to use the restrooms and dressing rooms at school for the gender recorded on their birth certificates — apparently a move aimed at transgender students.

Knox County Purchasing has released its request for proposals to construct middle schools in the Gibbs and Hardin Valley communities.

Both Henley Street and its adjacent pedestrian bridge will close nightly next week as lighting is installed on the bridge.

Employees of the Knox County E-911 Center for the first time in at least a decade are being surveyed about their bosses and working conditions.

Police released the identities of two people found dead Tuesday in a West Knoxville home.

CTI and Associates Inc., a small business based in Michigan, has received a $2.1 million fixed-price contract to tear down a 1940s-era electrical switchyard at the former uranium-enrichment complex now known as the East Tennessee Technology Park.

Knox Heritage invites local artisans to participate in a mutually-beneficial holiday market this December.

A former agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation wanted on charges of child molestation has been captured in Knoxville, according to arrest warrants.

What his accuser called a five-hour torturous kidnapping and rape, David Freeman Clay dubbed a really bad day.

A special judge on Tuesday refused to turn over to suspected black widow Raynella Dossett Leath the full investigative file on the drug-abusing judge who presided over her trial.