Nashville, Tn (WOKI) Tennessee lawmakers have filed a bill that would provide funds for schools to purchase portable walk-through metal detectors. If passed, The Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act would require the state to establish a pilot program to award grants to school districts in counties identified as distressed or at-risk in fiscal year…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: An autistic man missing earlier this afternoon has now been located. Knoxville Police Department officials say they had been looking for 23-year-old Michael Mamintov who went missing from the Pond Gap / Liberty Street area. KPD says Mamintov was found safe around 4:00 p.m. Friday afternoon at the Calvary Baptist Church…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Sean Finnegan, the Oak Ridge man sentenced to death in a grisly rape and murder case, is sentenced Friday morning to an additional 45 years. Finnegan was convicted of several charges, including first-degree murder, rape and abuse of a corpse, in August. The charges stemmed from a 2020 investigation, during which police…… MORE
MARYVILLE, Tenn.—A TWRA Wildlife Officer rescued two anglers whose boat became trapped against a low-head dam on Little River in Blount County yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at around 3 p.m., TWRA Wildlife Officer Curt Henderson received the report of a vessel in distress on Little River at Rockford Dam in Blount County.…… MORE
KNOXVILLE — In another milestone of the progress made since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, motorists can travel between the two states on I-40 for the first time since September 2024 on Saturday, March 1. In October 2024, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) reopened I-40 to one traffic lane in each…… MORE
A man armed with a machete was taken custody on Thursday afternoon near Caswell Park following a Crisis Negotiator and Special Operations Squad response. At around 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 27, 2025, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to the Cansler Family YMCA on Jessamine Street. YMCA staff reported that a man later identified as…… MORE
The three Knoxville Police Department officers who shot and killed Austin-East Magnet High School student Anthony Thompson Jr. can be sued for failing to help the dying 17-year-old. A federal appeals court made the ruling and say Thompson didn’t get help for at least four minutes after the confrontation with Officer Brian Baldwin, Lt. Stanley…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Knox County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team members who shot and killed 18-year-old Daevon Montez Saint-Germain last month will not face criminal charges. Officials with DA Charme Allen’s Office announcing Thursday that its review found the officers involved did not break the law and acted in self-defense. Saint-Germain was shot in connection…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) An 11-year-old is arrested Wednesday after a bomb threat was reported at Halls Middle School. Officials with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office say students and staff were evacuated Wednesday from the school after a verbal threat. Halls High School was also placed on lockdown. KCSO says the student was arrested on a…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Three men are convicted in a shooting that happened in Knoxville on Valentine’s Day in 2023. Na’Kelin McAfee was convicted of first-degree murder, joining Javari Jackson-Allen and Iran Lyons in their own murder convictions. Knoxville Police say the shooting happened on Badgett Drive, taking the life of Rahleik Garcia. Lyons and McAfee…… MORE
