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The 34-year-old woman who authorities said stole a truck and then fell off a cliff while hiding from the truck's owner has been charged with auto theft, among other charges.

Preventing and overcoming domestic violence topic of Wednesday evening symposium.

Tuesday's PolitiKnox Insider column.

A parolee fatally shot by a Knoxville Police Department officer in what authorities described as a life-or-death struggle was not within arm’s reach of the officer when all but one of five shots were fired, an autopsy shows.

Police are investigating a shooting that left one person wounded at Isabella Towers apartments near downtown Knoxville on Monday night.

Knox County has won a spot in round two of a statewide competition for a $365,000 grant designed to lower the rising jail population.

The Department of Energy's cleanup manager has awarded a $56.5 million subcontract to ARS Aleut Services LLC to perform radiation protection services at East Tennessee Technology Park and other Oak Ridge sites where cleanup activities are taking place.

Knox County commissioners Monday voted unanimously to spend $1.5 million on renovations of a new Regal Entertainment headquarters on the South Knoxville Waterfront.

An Oak Ridge man received a 10-year sentence Monday to an incident where he stabbed another man in the back with a Samurai sword.

A decades-long project to restore native brook trout to select streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has received a helping hand from a local chapter of Trout Unlimited.