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The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture is celebrating its 50th anniversary year with a community birthday party June 1 from 1-5 p.m. $RETURN$$RETURN$ The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture hits the big 5-0 this week.

Emergency utility payments for the city's poor go to almost 10,000 households annually.

When Peter Calandruccio moved to Knoxville in the late 1970s, he was intrigued to find a cutting-edge music show called "Unhinged" on public radio station WUOT.

Another class action lawsuit has been filed against Pilot Flying J. This time the main plaintiff is a customer in Mississippi.

Hundreds of local Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts decorated Knoxville's National Cemetery with over 8,000 flags.

Wes Comer holds the Boy Scout uniform of his son, Isaiah, outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn., in February.

Photos by Michael Patrick/News Sentinel Three veterans whose remains had been unclaimed were laid to rest Friday with help from the Dignity Memorial and the Missing in America Project.

Attending the Knoxville City Council Meeting on May 14 to hear the arguments of developer Anthony P. Cappiello and his "dream team" to acquire the city-owned property of Ben Atchley Street was bearing witness to the abomination of City Council's power.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Norfolk Southern opened its new $5.9 million Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer terminal today in Knoxville.

Knoxville police say Ricki Draper of Greensboro, North Carolina, Julia Lepping of Louisville, Kentucky, and a teenage boy went to the UBS Wealth Management Offices, which are located in the First Tennessee building, and refused to leave.

A Madisonville woman has been formally charged in an April incident that took the life of a Tellico Plains father.

City inspectors fanned out across the Beaumont area looking for violations like dilapidated buildings, dirty or overgrown lots, illegal dumping and abandoned cars.

Knoxville's collective creativity quotient is off the charts this weekend, thanks to all those eager young people you see walking around downtown.

A University of Tennessee administrator told her boss she was experiencing a hostile work environment in the days before she was fired.

Tennessee has announced that Tim Rogers is stepping down as the university's vice chancellor for student life, less than three weeks after he cited an "intolerable situation" in an email that he sent to chancellor Jimmy Cheek.

Whether it be the existence of actual real life Transgender support groups or the existence of inclusive LGBT employment policy for City hiring, apparently Tennessee and rest of the country is factually unaware of Knoxville.

A long-time North Knoxville business is moving. Broadway Sound will close the doors at its current location at the corner of Broadway and Edgewood Avenue on May 31st and move to Fountain City.

An employee at a Hamblen County animal shelter is accused of stealing more than $50,000 in adoption fees and other funds.

Radio DJ, Frank Murphy, said, "It's kind of feel good music, fun stuff, stuff you can listen to for a long time and they call it "classic hits" because these songs were all hits on the radio at that time.

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