KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – The Knoxville Police Department is investigating after a video of a Knoxville officer punching a woman started circulating on social media. A representative with the department gave WVLT News a statement Friday. The video itself shows officers with their hands on multiple suspects. One of the officers, who…… MORE
OAK RIDGE, TN (TWRA/WOKI) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has confirmed the identity of the man recovered from Melton Hill Lake following a boating incident on Thursday afternoon. At approximately 9:20 a.m. today, August 22, 2025, a TWRA investigator located the body of Kim Daugherty, 53, of Clinton, using a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)…… MORE
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
KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – Knox Area Rescue Ministries is now offering more services through their care clinic. KARM says it will be focusing in on the Mission District, helping the population of unhoused individuals. “It’s going to service almost a hotspot, you know, folks around this area need care in the evenings,”…… 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
(Story courtesy of WVLT News) Knoxville, TN (WVLT) The interim board of directors for the Knox County Juvenile Detention Center met for the second time Wednesday, focusing on some of the center’s partners. One of those partners — the Department of Children’s Services — revealed at the meeting that the state hadn’t approved the center.…… 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
KNOXVILLE, TN (story courtesy of WVLT) – Two apartment complexes in Knoxville are preparing to offer up more than: The Overlook at Beaumont and First Creek at Austin. First Creek at Austin First Creek at Austin is a development run in conjunction with Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation. As part of Phase III of an ongoing…… 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
