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Leaders of Nashville's convention center already are mapping out a possible future expansion of a center that spans six downtown blocks and sits on 19 acres.

A Knox County man is being charged for the murder of his brother, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released nationwide information on hospital charges for the 100 most common diagnosis groups for Medicare inpatients performed in hospitals.

Alice Mercer, Women's Fund Advisory Board Member and East Tennessee Foundation Board Chair; Mary Ellen Brewington, Women's Fund Advisory Board Chair;guest speaker Ali Wentworth; Paige Preston, Women's Fund Luncheon Chair; Christine Patterson Winter, Women's Fund Luncheon Co-Chair; and Mike McClamroch, East Tennessee Foundation President and CEO, at ... (more)

Officers were called to the home on Hazelwood Drive near Smyrna Middle School around 4:00 p.m. on a reported domestic disturbance.

The Tennessee Woman's Health Report Card was released earlier this week through a joint effort by the Department of Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College.

Bob Robertson is 77 years old and a faithful golfer in more ways than one. The Tennessean plays golf four days a week and says he asked God to let him score a hole-in-one for a good cause.

One Maryville man is dead, after his vehicle caught on fire and fell off a bridge into a creek early Saturday morning, according to a Tennessee Highway Patrol accident report.

Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders struggling to read can beef up their skills this summer before they head to back to school, thanks to the University of Tennessee.

While employees at Nissan's Smyrna plant churned out cars, one employee at Nissan North America's Franklin corporate headquarters may have been working to defraud the company and its drivers, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment.

It's not often the Ohio Valley Conference's leading hitter gets a big cheer from the dugout for a... CHEERS to the more than 1,200 graduates at APSU who earned degrees and took part in the 2013 spring... The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System has received a $40,000 grant to pay for STEM Academy and Middle College High School's students' ... (more)

Chuck Ellis uses several different tools to help him carve out the center and shape the exterior of the bowl.

Country music star, TV host and Dickson native Craig Morgan will join volunteers from UnitedHealthcare today to staff a Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee Mobile Pantry.

According to a news release issued by the office of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander today, he has joined a group of 45 senators in a letter personally calling on President Obama to have his administration "comply with all requests" by Congress as it examines the Internal Revenue Service's admitted targeting of conservative groups and others during the ... (more)

According to the Knoxville Police Department, the Wendy's on Kingston Pike near Gallaher View Road was robbed around 9:30 p.m. According to the Knoxville Police Department, the Wendy's on Kingston Pike near Gallaher View Road was robbed around 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Authors Guild of Tennessee is a newly-formed association of independently-published writers who live in our area.

Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. The Gatlinburg Presbyterian Church congregation speaks ... (more)

The first Europeans to encounter the Indians of Tennessee, of course, were the Spanish would-be conquistadors of the 16th century.

A relative says that Don Pelts, founder of Memphis-based barbecue restaurant Corky's Ribs and Bar-BQ, has died.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a man serving a life sentence for the 2006 first degree premeditated murder of his girlfriend.