Knox County | featured news

A round of awards, upcoming events and other news from the University of Tennessee.

An alert Ohio motorist whose tip led to the capture of homicide suspect Tyler Enix will be honored in Knoxville on Monday, police said.

Steve Kelly of Shepherdsville, Ky., photographed the Little River on Oct. 25 in Elkmont, using a Canon 6D and a 24-105mm lens set at 90mm.

Bridget Boland gave up her team and her university, lost a semester of schooling, struggled to rebuild her life as a student athlete in another locale and labored to comply with a court order that she lay bare her private social media life when she needed to study for exams and planned to visit with her parents.

Knox County leaders are looking to a band of computer whizzes as their secret weapon in the battle to win a match-free grant aimed at easing jail crowding.

Knoxville police are asking anyone who may have witnessed a fatal shooting off the Cumberland Avenue Strip early Sunday to come forward as the search continues for the shooter.

Big South Fork lodge offers new menu, new cabin and tents in trees.

The Knoxville Bar Association will offer free end-of-life planning during weekend event.

Rhonda Rice was still on the University of Tennessee campus after an early morning meeting when she climbed into her car to return a call from a top Regal Entertainment executive.

Joining the Tennessee Valley Regional Communications System would cost Knox County nearly $1 million more than the county buying its own digital radio system, as well as deprive the E-911 Center of nearly $2 million in revenue and expose the county's E-911 system to extensive hidden upgrade costs.