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Bobby Collier, who served the Kingston area of Roane County on the County Commission for 17 years, dies.

A second woman has been arrested in connection with a Luke Bryan ticket scam.

An aging radio system at the Knox County E-911 Center burned a circuit board that forced emergency dispatchers to resort to handheld radios.

Mayor Madeline Rogero has appointed a former special projects manager to oversee a newly funded crime prevention program, and a former School Board chair to manage special projects.

On Thursday, the Episcopal School of Knoxville held its annual blessing of the animals in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, who is known as the patriot saint of the animals and the environment. The event also coincided with a schoolwide pet food collection project for the Episcopal Church of the Ascension.

Authorities about 9:15 a.m. Thursday reopened Tazewell Pike after a collision of two full-size pickup trucks forced the road closure for more than two hours.

Blount County authorities were alerted about 6:30 a.m. Thursday that a man had fled from U.S. marshals in the area of McGhee Tyson Airport.

An early morning fire Thursday heavily damaged an unoccupied house in Northwest Knoxville.

Timothy Woods, a disgraced Union County official who went on to control 17 bus lines for Knox County Schools, has inked a plea deal in a $30 million pill mill operation centered in Lenoir City and Knoxville that prosecutors say put 12 million opiate painkillers into the hands of addicts.

For the second year, South College School of Pharmacy students want to drive away business — by encouraging behaviors that will prevent people needing prescriptions.