A teen lucky to be alive after a single vehicle crash in Grainger County. The Tennessee Highway Patrol along with several agencies responding to a on Lakeshore Drive at Sam Heim Road Saturday afternoon. The preliminary investigation shows a 17-year-old driving a Ford Expedition south on Lakeshore Drive tried to negotiate a curve before running…… MORE
Alcoa, TN (WOKI) The Alcoa Police Department is searching for multiple arson suspects after a porch fire on North Linden Street. APD officials say home surveillance cameras caught the suspects, whom they believe to be juveniles, lighting a bag on fire and throwing it onto the porch of a house on North Linden. APD says…… MORE
UPDATE: The latest update by TDOT on Saturday just before 4 p.m., in on ‘X’; Mark Nagi with TDOT posts US 129 “The Dragon” is now back open. Blount County, TN (WOKI) A stretch of The Dragon, also known as U.S. 129 and a popular route for drivers in Blount County, has been closed because…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Maryville, TN (WVLT) Kenneth DeHart Jr., the man accused of shooting two Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies in February, injuring one and killing the other, could face the death penalty. The state filed two notices Friday, one seeking the death penalty, saying it will seek the death penalty in the…… MORE
Sweetwater, TN (WOKI) A man is in custody after a shooting in Sweetwater. Sweetwater Police say it happened in the 400 block of Patton Street on Tuesday. Police say two men had had a fight, and one had shot the other in the shoulder. That suspect, Elisha Goins, had left the scene but was found…… MORE
An 11 year-old girl in Sevierville is battling a rare virus from mosquitoes. According to the CDC, less than 100 people in the US are infected with the La Crosse virus each year, with most of the cases coming from kids 16 or under. Brynlee Henderson is one of only a few in the state who’s…… MORE
A McMinn County man is facing felony charges for making school threats. The McMinn County Sheriff’s Office says 44-year-old Joshua Webb after they were told a man near Niota Elementary School had made the threat. A Department of Homeland Security agent responded to Webb’s house on County Road 255. Webb is facing three charges of…… MORE
School threats and arrests continue in Knox County Schools. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office responding to five school threats yesterday (Thursday) morning. A twelve-year-old seventh-grade female student from Cedar Bluff Middle was arrested for threats of mass violence, a twelve-year-old Gibbs middle school female student was arrested for false reports and an 11-year-old, Hardin Valley…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI A 14-year-old South Doyle High School student is facing serious charges following a fire Thursday afternoon in a trash can at the school. Deputies and juvenile detectives responded around 2:00 p.m. to the trash fire; officials said they believed it was set intentionally. A 14-year-old boy was arrested later in the day…… MORE
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Knoxville, TN (WOKI) We’re just over a month into Knox County’s school year, and the number of people facing charges for threatening schools is steadily growing. Wednesday, District Attorney Charme Allen said 17 people in Knox County were being charged in connection to school threats. Thursday morning, that total had…… MORE
