Kingston News

Instead of being made "whole" by negotiating a settlement with TVA, some people who felt damaged by the agency because of the fly ash catastrophe chose to seek their reparations through litigation.

Kingston's plan to draw much-needed retail business to the city's Gallaher Road corridor took what Mayor Troy Beets called "a kick in the mouth" recently.

The Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in north Alabama has a fire response problem that could lead to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission civil penalty.

A substantial part of the total cost went to purchase almost 150 affected properties, he said, and another $43 million will go for rehabilitation and economic development in Roane County, where the coal ash spill occurred.

Charlie Price cleans a Parker double-barrel hammer G grade shotgun at his home Tuesday in Kingston.

Three environmental groups want the state to throw out a permit it just issued that would allow TVA to dump water tainted with mercury, selenium, arsenic, and other chemicals from the Kingston coal-fired power plant into the Clinch River.

" January 4th, 1968 is a day Melvin Page will never forget. On Veterans Day, Page sat down to Volunteer TV News to share his amazing story of what was nearly his last day on earth.

Testimony and closing arguments have wrapped up in Kingston in the murder retrial of Leon Houston in the slaying of a sheriff's deputy.

Area residents hard-hit by the coal fly ash spill calamity at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant said Tuesday they're still grappling with its persistent effects, from health woes to real estate worries.

Cleaner emissions from TVA's Kingston Fossil plant will come in the form of a big white cloud of steam.

A Knoxville couple was killed while driving through Roane County Saturday afternoon.

Clifford Leon Houston talks with his attorney Jim Logan before court on the first day of witness testimony Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 in his double murder trial in Roane County Circuit Court.

Opening statements are scheduled Thursday in the second murder trial of one of two Roane County brothers accused of killing a deputy and his ride-along friend.

Opening statements are coming in the second murder trial of 1 of 2 Roane County brothers accused of killing a deputy and his ride-along friend.

If any place deserves to become a business hub for turning fly ash into useful products, Roane County Executive Mike Farmer said that place should be Roane County.

The Princess Theater project is much more than renovating a movie theater. The theater and surrounding buildings are planned to entertain but are also to be used for arts education for local students.

A man accused of choking a woman to death during "kinky sex'' has had another criminal charge added to his rap sheet.

Two Roane County men have been indicted for Internet sex crimes involving children, according to a news release from the Harriman Police Department.

Toss an aluminum can in the Emory River, and the law says it's a $50 fine. The penalty for releasing 3 million cubic yards of fly ash into the river, however, is not yet known.

As the first anniversary of TVA's coal ash spill disaster looms, the agency is building a large hillside overlook for spectators to watch the cleanup.