Saturday evening at 7:21 PM, the Knox County Emergency Communications District received an Automated alarm and a phone call for an activated fire alarm with a fire in an apartment on the 8th floor of 201 Locust Street. As KFD units were departing the downtown fire station, fire could be seen coming from an upper floor…… MORE
A Mississippi man is arrested in Oliver Springs after he leading police on a chase in a stolen U-Haul truck. Oliver Springs Police Officers tried to stop 40-year-old Cameron Simpson, of Gulfport, Mississippi, after a Flock camera identified the stolen U-Haul truck. Police pursued him down Harriman Highway and into the Blair and Clax Gap…… MORE
UPDATE: The victim from the deadly shooting that happened on Friday night in the area of Dandridge Avenue and Riverside Drive has been identified as Antonio Middlebrooks, 41 of Detroit, Michigan. At this time, a suspect has not been arrested or charged and the investigation into the shooting remains ongoing. Anyone with information that could assist…… MORE
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
