Knoxville Police are investigating after a man is found dead inside a car in South Knoxville. 29-year-old Jonathon Battles was found yesterday afternoon in a car parked in the street in the 2400 block of Sam Houston Street. Police say there are no obvious signs of trauma but cause of death is undetermined and the…… MORE
Charges are pending following an investigation into a deadly head-on collision in Monroe county. The Tennessee Highway Patrol has identified the drivers involved in Tuesday morning’s crash as 33 year-old Janice Stapleton and 36 year-old Anthony Capp who died in the crash. According to a preliminary report from THP, Stapleton and Capp were driving opposite…… MORE
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency say a Kingston man has broken a state record for largest paddlefish ever caught. Henry Dyer caught a paddlefish from Cherokee lake that weighed 149 lbs. The fish was also almost 80 inches (over 6 1/2 feet) in length and almost 45 inches in girth.… MORE
Mayor John Cooper and the mayors from three other major Tennessee cities are urging Governor Bill Lee to consider enacting major changes to the state’s gun laws following the deadly shooting at The Covenant School. Mayor Cooper of Nashville, Mayor Lee Harris of Shelby County, Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga, and Mayor Indya Kincannon of…… MORE
The Knoxville Police Department has released the preliminary crime numbers for the first-quarter of 2023, which are continuing to trend in the right direction after significant decreases were reported in 2022. As of April 9, 2023, according to preliminary citywide data compiled by the KPD Crime Analysis Unit, murders were down 33 percent compared…… MORE
Two men trapped in a trench collapse are both freed and one man remains hospitalized. Officials with the Knoxville Fire Department are still investigating yesterday’s incident at a construction site on East Inskip Road. Both men were responsive when taken to the hospital. They were employed by Davie Construction, working about four feet under the…… MORE
Update: A head-on crash in Monroe County leaves one person dead, others flown to hospital by helicopter. This morning’s accident happened on Highway 68 near Frontier Road in the Christianburg neighborhood. Authorities say that three people were in one car and two in the other. The driver of the other car was taken to the…… MORE
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating a crash involving a train and a semi-truck which closed Harriman Highway in Roane County over the weekend. According to THP, the driver of the semi-truck, a 41 year-old man, Jagit Singh, was parked on the tracks and in the sleeper cab when a train hit the truck. No…… MORE
Knoxville Police along with the bomb squad investigate a possible suspicious package. Yesterday ( Sunday) morning KPD’s Explosive Ordinance Detail unit and the FBI were sent to the 500 block of West Vine Avenue near the Old City to investigate the package. The scene was clear by noon and the package was found to be…… MORE
Knoxville police say the suspect in a weekend shooting in the Old City has turned himself in. 27 year-old Walter Hill wanted for attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and other charges in connection to Saturday night’s shooting involving his girlfriend and her son did turn himself into Police yesterday. Hill fled…… MORE
