Knoxville News

KNOXVILLE The family of a Roane County woman shot to death says they feel like they've hit another roadblock in the path to justice.

J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Lavonte Dominique Simmons, left, waits for a hearing with Public Defender Mark Stephens on Monday in General Sessions Court in Knoxville.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers set up a trap Monday afternoon to catch a black bear spotted several times in South Knoxville.

Timothy Kaufman has been in jail since his arrest in April at business near his grandfather's Albany-area home.

Two men charged in the murder of a 21-year-old mother of four were bound over to a grand jury Monday.

Firefighters responded to a two alarm fire Sunday afternoon just after 3 p.m. at the St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church near the Donelson area located at 1943 Dabbs Avenue.

Charanissa L. Humphrey of Jourolman Avenue died in the 3:50 a.m. Saturday crash, according to Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk.

Knox County, which did not meet EPA air quality guidelines for smog and ground-level ozone, is in a three-year review period to make sure air quality levels do not backslide.

SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL Knoxville Fire Department firefighters battle the mulch fire at Shamrock Organic Products on April 16, 2012.

About three years ago, Matt King tried to qualify for what is now the News Sentinel Open and also played in an eGolf Tour event.

Authorities say a man accused of shooting his girlfriend and her three teenage daughters in a neighborhood near Nashville has surrendered to officials in Memphis.

Two people were stabbed and a third was assaulted when a man pulled out a "hunting knife" and attacked the three during an argument outside a North Knoxville shopping center Sunday evening, witnesses said.

Four people were transported to University of Tennessee Medical Center this afternoon after a four-wheel-drive vehicle accident at Fountain City Ball Park in North Knoxville, according to Rural Metro and Knoxville Police Department dispatch.

MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL Lorenza Glasgow at his Knoxville home recently shows photographs of himself demonstrating to integrate the Tennessee Theatre.

When the owner of Byerley's Cafeteria saw Charles Howell standing outside the Tennessee Theatre, the teenager knew he was out of a job.

J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Peggy Wiggins Nixon, left, and Jackie Hall Gallman look at photographs of the Knoxville demonstrations in which they participated in the early 1960s.

K.O. Herston photographed powerboat racer Dana Tomes recently on Fort Loudoun Lake with a 400mm Nikkor lens.

The 4th annual Channon and Chris Memorial Ride started in Knoxville and traveled through Knox, Anderson and Blount Counties, ending in Maryville.

Though for many he will always be Pastor John Piper, this spring marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter in the renowned minister's life and ministry.

Judy Tolbert and Johnny Ford at the reunion marking 50 years since the start of the Knoxville/Macalester exchange program.