The American Job Center in Knoxville is putting on a veteran focused resource and job fair Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s happening form 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Tennessee National Guard Armory on Sutherland Avenue. More than 55 community organizations and service providers will be on hand to help veterans looking for work.… MORE
A Seymour mother who left her children unattended in a bathtub will spend 25 years in prison. 34-year-old Bethanie Carriker pleaded guilty Monday morning to two counts of Aggravated Child Neglect. Her 15-month-old died and her 20-day-old was hospitalized in May. Carriker says she left the children in the tub for 10-12 minutes, and returned…… MORE
Blount County authorities are investigating the drowning of a toddler. Deputies were called to West Cumberland Drive in Louisville Friday night. The family and first responders performed CPR, but the 3-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the hospital. The family says the toddler was eating dinner at a picnic table in the backyard. They came out…… MORE
A Florida man is facing DUI charges after crashing a semi into a motel Saturday night. Officials say 34-year-old Raul Medina hit the canopy over the main entrance of the Roadway Inn off Strawberry Plains Pike. Medina told authorities he was trying to pull into the parking lot when he hit the building. Then he…… MORE
Family are mourning the death of a Cumberland County teen after an ATV crash over the weekend. Samantha Bullock says her son Grant, was full of life, a loyal friend and would make you laugh. Dispatch got the cal of at 8:50 Saturday night. Investigators say the 16-year-old was driving the ATV on private property…… MORE
An East Tennessee murderer was put to death by the electric chair Thursday night. 56-year-old Stephen West kidnapped and stabbed to death Wanda and her 15-year-old daughter Sheila Romines in 1986. He was pronounced dead at 8:27 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Our TV Partner WVLT News’ Justin McDuffie served as an official witness…… MORE
Results are in from last year’s TN Ready tests. Schools Listed as Exemplary: Alcoa, Clinton, Loudon and Maryville Advanced Districts Include: Anderson, Blount, Claiborne, Hamblen, Jefferson, Lenoir City, Monroe, Oak Ridge and Sweetwater Satisfactory School Districts: Campbell, Grainger, Knox, Morgan, Sevier and Union Only one school in our area was listed as Needs Improvement, that…… MORE
The TBI is investigating after an officer involved shooting in Clinton. Authorities have identified the suspect as 51-year-old Jerry Weaver. Police got a call Tuesday night of a suicidal man with a firearm on West Broad Street. The standoff lasted about 20 minutes. Officers were attempting to negotiate with Weaver, when he pointed the…… MORE
Knoxville College is offering free tuition for qualifying students. To see if you qualify CLICK HERE. Interim President Dr. Keith Lindsey says the free college is about, “trying to educate all who desire to learn and receive a quality education from a historic institution of higher learning.” The free tuition is being offered for the 2019-2020…… MORE
A Tennessee inmate on Death Row is now on Death Watch. Stephen West was moved to a cell next to the execution chamber where he’ll be under 24-hour observation. West was found guilty in the 1986 kidnapping and stabbing deaths of 51-year-old Wanda Romines and her 15-year-old daughter. West is scheduled to die be lethal…… MORE
Jim Casey talks with singer/songwriter Ingrid Andress about: the genesis of her name growing up in Denver being home-schooled until high school learning to play the piano as a six-year-old singing at a young age going to college at the Berklee College of Music in Boston moving to Nashville after college making connections in Music…
Jim Casey talks with singer/songwriter/actress Clare Bowen and her husband, Brandon Robert Young, about: releasing her self-titled debut album in the U.S. on July 12 releasing the album in Germany, U.K. and Australia over the last year starring as Scarlett O’Connor on Nashville for six season growing up in Australia speaking with a Southern U.S.…
Jim Casey talks with Aaron Watson about: scoring his first Top 10 hit with “Outta Style” in 2017 releasing his new 20-song album, Red Bandana, on June 21 writing all 20 songs on the new album by himself the “purposeful” nature of the new project preparing to make the new album by listening to records…
Elaina Smith is back with the second season of her award-winning podcast, Breaking Thru With Elaina, formerly titled Women Want to Hear Women. Elaina kicked off Season 2 with one of her favorite guests from Season 1 . . . the one and only Maren Morris. In addition to chatting with Maren about country radio,…
