Update (9/7/24): The Knox County Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Detectives, Major Crimes Detectives, and Patrol Officers responded to various threats Friday at Halls Middle and High Schools in North Knox County. The following arrests have been made as a result – A 14-year-old Halls High School Student was arrested around noon this afternoon for threats of…… MORE
Grainger County, TN (WOKI) A Morristown man suspected of killing and dismembering two people in Bean Station last spring has now been indicted. The Grainger County District Attorney’s office confirms Aaron White was indicted on August 28 on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse. White was arrested in…… MORE
Loudon County, TN (WOKI / WVLT) Now former Greenback High School Head Football Coach Tommy Clemmer has been removed from the team’s staff after an incident with a student. WOKI’s news partner, WVLT reporting that representatives withLoudon County Schools provided a statement saying Clemmer did not “create a positive atmosphere in and out of the…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) He pled guilty to vehicular homicide by intoxication among other charges; now, the man accused of killing the son of the University of Tennessee’s swim coach, is headed to prison. Knox County Courts announcing Tuesday that Shannon Walker has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the death of 24-year-old Ben…… MORE
A Knoxville woman is charged with first-degree murder in connection to a shooting that happened at a Knox County apartment. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office called to an apartment on Oak Valley Drive Sunday night for a shooting. They found a man with a gunshot wound, he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.…… MORE
An investigation is underway after a paramedic is killed and another injured in a Jefferson County crash.The Tennessee Department of Transportation says it happened on I-40 West and that a tractor-trailer was also involved in the crash. Brad Phillips, the Jefferson County EMS director, says the crash happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday on I-40 near…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The investigation into a reported school threat results in a 13-year-old boy being charged for threat of mass violence. Wednesday night, the Knoxville Police Department was notified that this 13 year-old had allegedly threatened to bring a gun to Ridgedale School and shoot someone. KPD officers and detectives took him into custody…… MORE
Knoxville Police are investigating the drowning death of a 71-year-old woman at Inskip Pool. An officer was in the area August 22nd when he heard voices coming from inside the pool area and found lifeguards giving a woman CPR. The officer reportedly helped until crews with the Knoxville Fire Department and AMR arrived. The woman,…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A Lenoir City man has been indicted for first-degree murder in the death of a woman in January in Knoxville. Knoxville Police Department officials say the indictment comes after KPD officers took 26-year-old Reginald Depriest into custody on January 5; they say Depriest had turned himself in. According to KPD, Depriest killed…… MORE
Covenant Health Park is the name of Knoxville’s new $114-million multi-use stadium. Boyd Sports, LLC, and Covenant Health have reached an agreement for the naming rights to the new stadium which will feature 7,500 seats, create an estimated 400 jobs, and be the home of Smokies baseball, One Knoxville Soccer Club and many other events.…… MORE
