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Knox County prosecutors will tell judge Thursday if they are seeking second murder trial for Norman Eugene Clark.

Feds considering ban on surface coal mining in parts of Cumberland Mountains.

The 40th annual Festival of Christmas Past offers traditional music, crafts.

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With debate among students, but strong support from faculty, representative groups for those campus populations reiterated support for diversity at the University of Tennessee.

The city of Knoxville's longtime community relations director, Thomas "Tank" Strickland, is retiring next month, officials announced Wednesday.

The Knox County Ethics Committee punted on a complaint over leadership for a Knox County Schools committee to study diversity-related issues in the system, ethics committee members said, because the issue is not in their jurisdiction.

A summer camp in the foothills of the Smokies is among 52 winners from across the U.S. selected to share $1 million in a contest sponsored by Tom's of Maine.

The board will vote to select a new alderman for Ron Honken's North Ward seat at its Jan. 14 meeting. The candidate selected will serve until the August 2016 election.

The Jefferson County city of Baneberry's lax history of allowing public equipment and city staffers to be loaned out under unwritten "gentlemen's agreements" was admonished in an investigative report released Wednesday by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.