KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – The City of Knoxville is set to begin the next phase of construction on Pleasant Ridge Road. People from the area were invited to see the city’s plans for the future of the road. “There’s some pretty hairy areas that’s very dangerous,” Stuart Hall, who lives near Pleasant…… MORE
A search for a missing boater on Melton Hill continues today (Friday). Multiple agencies are on scene at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge searching for a boater who they say went missing yesterday (Thursday). Officials with the Oak Ridge Fire Department and the Oak Ridge Police Department are assisting TWRA with the search at…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A man is accused of breaking into apartments on UT’s campus. Knoxville police say the incidents occurred around 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning on Lake Avenue. Police say 25-year-old Bobby Crain broke a front window and entered an apartment. The residents in that apartment confronted him. Officers say that’s when Crain jumped onto…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE 8/21: Ruby Whitehorn, a Lady Vols basketball player who is facing domestic assault and burglary charges, has been suspended from the team indefinitely. That news, confirmed Thursday, August 21 by women’s basketball associate director, Eric Trainer. According to charging documents, officers went to a house on Earnhart Way in Halls earlier…… MORE
Blount Co, TN. (Story courtesy of WVLT) – The Blount County Sheriff’s Office has cleared an elementary principal of any wrongdoing following an investigation into his alleged actions at the school. According to Blount County Schools Director Justin Ridge, on Aug. 15, BCSO opened an investigation into Stan Painter, the principal at Friendsville Elementary School,…… MORE
Cosby, TN (WOKI) The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are investigating a shooting that critically injured a man. Sheriff CJ Ball says deputies responded to a report of a dispute between two people in the 700 block of McGaha Chapel Road in Cosby around 8:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. On the…… MORE
An injured hiker is rescued from a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A flight crew with the Tennessee National Guard’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion responded to Snake Den Ridge Trail last night (Tues) where the man had been hiking. He was flown to UT Medical Center in Knoxville after he was…… MORE
A fixture in many homes for several years delivering the news as presumably the most trusted journalist in Knoxville, WBIR anchor emeritus Bill Williams has died. He died at his home in Knoxville yesterday (Monday) afternoon at the age of 91. He settled into to his new home here in East Tennessee in 1977. He…… MORE
The Principal at Friendsville Elementary School in Blount County has been suspended. The Blount County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into Stan Painter on Friday based on allegations regarding claimed actions at the school during the 2023-2024 school year. Painter was immediately suspended pending further investigation. Jennifer Moore, a longtime educator of more than 30…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE 8/18: Knoxville police have arrested the suspect allegedly involved in a robbery at a grocery store. KPD says 37-year-old Joseph Eldridge of Rutledge, Tennessee was taken into custody Monday morning in Sevier County and has been charged with aggravated robbery in connection to Friday’s incident at the Kroger on 2117 N.…… MORE
