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After a rough year, Rica Pleasant wants to show her children hard work and education pay off. An Empty Stocking Fund basket will help her family during the winter holidays while money is still tight.

Two men, one armed with a handgun, forced their way Monday morning into a Krystal and robbed the business.

CLINTON — After a 43-year career with Anderson County Schools that saw him go from teacher to director of the 6,400-student system, Larry Foster is retiring.

Knox County school board member Tracie Sanger is not happy that Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong has said that Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre’s revised contract is not in legal form.

Jim Richmond photographed a Cooper's hawk from his back deck at Christian Springs subdivision in the Gibbs area.

The money is for the victims of the 14 dead and 21 wounded in the Dec. 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.

An early morning brush fire on Shell Mountain near Sevierville has garnered the resources of nearly a dozen fire departments and forced evacuations of residents.

The Great American Milk Drive provides the opportunity to donate a much-needed staple to needy families.

A wind advisory is in effect until 7 p.m. today for East Tennessee, according to the National Weather Service.

Recent donations to the News Sentinel's Empty Stocking Fund