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The foundation plans to gift the city 70 acres in South Knoxville for a new park.

Minor injuries have been reported in a school bus crash in Roane County on Wednesday afternoon, an emergency dispatcher said.

Anderson County is now paying nearly $10,000 a month to lease space for a General Sessions Courtroom in Oak Ridge, and options are now beginning to be explored.

A state report that resulted in a theft indictment against the president of the Campbell County High School Choral Boosters club details poor recordkeeping by the group.

An executive with Mirion Technologies Corp., which earlier this year received a greater-than-expected load of highly enriched uranium from Y-12, says the company followed proper protocols in reporting the error and did not break any laws or regulations.

Regal Entertainment's plans to stay in Knoxville are expected to be outlined in a news conference this week announcing millions of tax dollars tied to keeping them here, according to sources familiar with the funding but who were not allowed to speak publicly about the deal.

An Blount County prisoner who escaped in handcuffs moments after being taken into custody last week had a new pair of cuffs Wednesday.

Sen. Lamar Alexander said President Barack Obama's address Wednesday in West Virginia about the prescription drug epidemic came about, in part, as a result of concerns raised in Knoxville last month.

Authorities have identified a 43-year-old Knoxville woman who was found dead in a van that ran off the road through a field and into the back deck of a West Knox County home.

Regal incentive details are expected to be released Friday in Knoxville.