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Power lines strung across an Interstate 81 overpass dropped onto the roadway Tuesday, forcing the closure of all lanes of the major route, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Politics can be wild

Students from the University of Tennessee and from MIT-SOM College in India paired to test water purifying packets.

It was supposed to cost $75,000, but the renovation of restrooms at Oak Ridge Marina ended up costign $281,000. Still, an auditor said there was nothing inappropriate about the project, and City Council voted Monday to shut the door on any further examination of the matter.

Melvin Robert King is standing trial this week on allegations he fatally shot one man and wounded a teenager in a bid to steal drugs.

Local contractors are needed to perform energy-efficiency upgrades to nearly 1,300 homes around Knoxville, totaling about $15 million in contracts.

Federal overseers have given preliminary approval for a new uranium purification facility at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, with a price range between $58.6 million and $76.7 million.

Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitizer Prize winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the featured speaker Oct. 22 at the 18th annual Dick Smyster Community Lecture Series.

The Nov. 12 event, which includes wine, food and a silent auction, will raise money for the National MS Society's programs serving people with MS, as well as for research.

Members of the Knoxville Police Department's bomb unit found no explosives in a suspicious package found Monday in Market Square.