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The 11-year-old boy accused in the weekend slaying of a girl, 8, in White Pine is not the youngest in East Tennessee to face charges.

A slimmed down Knox County Sheriff Jimmy "J.J." Jones had reintroduce himself to county commissioners.

Police are searching for a driver who ran from the scene after striking a motorcyclist on Interstate 40 in West Knoxville on Monday night.

On Wednesday night, about 130 World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans will return home from an HonorAir flight to Washington, D.C..

After months of uncertainty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside what was purely a battle over the law in the federal case against former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner.

Knox County Health Department officials say the clinics to vaccinate schoolchildren against flu will be rescheduled as soon as they can get the FluMist, for which there is a nationwide shortage.

A Knoxville drug dealer pleaded guilty to reckless homicide Monday in the overdose death of one of his customers, prosecutors said.

Mosquitoes in two areas of the county -- one new this season, the other with infected mosquitoes last month -- have tested positive for West Nile virus, said the health department, which will spray the areas Thursday and again Oct. 22, per CDC guidelines.

Authorities have identified four suspects who they say wore clown masks in a string of pranks at two Farragut parks last month.

The detention hearing for an 11-year-old boy accused of killing an 8-year-old girl over the weekend will go on behind closed doors.