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Joe Carcello has announced that he plans to step down from the Knox County Audit Committee.

A Knoxville police officer caught two of three fleeing auto theft suspects as they ran from a West Town Mall parking garage.

One-third of American adults are obese or overweight, according to a Journal of American Medicine report, and Tennessee plays too large a role in heightening these statistics. The Volunteer State is No. 4 in the country for percentage of fat residents, according to personal finance website WalletHub.

KNOXVILLE —Commercial zoning ordinances, access to public transportation and state transportation funding were among the issues on the minds of newly re-elected council members Wednesday morning after their victories.

City of Knoxville Public Service workers Cody Foster, left, and Nick Andreasen place the top of a 42-foot decorative holiday tree in Krutch Park in downtown Knoxville on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. Workers began constructing the new tree on Monday, which will be lit during the Regal Celebration of Lights on Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. 

A 45-year-old man shot himself in the face late Tuesday night after being stopped by an Oak Ridge police officer for speeding on the Oak Ridge Turnpike, authorities said Wednesday.

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Haunting images of a fetus torn from her mother’s womb and ripped in two that brought Knox County jurors to tears have now netted the driver in this triple fatality a new trial.

The first scheduled court appearance for a 34-year-old Clinton man accused of violating security at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant has been reset for Nov. 10 in Anderson County Sessions Court.

The Oak Ridge Electric Department is putting graphic wraps with huge photos, over nondescript roadside fixtures.