Game Recap: Baseball | April 06, 2024 AUBURN, Ala. – It was a day filled with record-setting home runs for No. 4/4 Tennessee as it evened its series against Auburn with an emphatic 12-2 victory in front of a capacity crowd at Plainsman Park on Saturday afternoon. Blake Burke cemented himself into UT lore, becoming the Volunteers’ career home…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. –Dalton Knecht of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball team is the 2023-24 Julius Erving Award honoree, as announced Saturday evening on ESPN College GameDay. The elite accolade, awarded by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, is given to the nation’s premier small forward. “I am honored to receive this prestigious award. To…… MORE
Game Recap: Softball | April 06, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – After winning game one of the series Friday night, the sixth-ranked Lady Vols dropped game two to third-ranked Georgia, 3-2, on Saturday at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium – setting up a rubber match on Sunday. The defeat snapped Tennessee’s (29-6, 9-2 SEC) 18-game home winning streak. Graduate Payton…… MORE
Game Recap: Baseball | April 05, 2024 AUBURN, Ala. — Despite a hot-start offensively and an inspiring showing from the bullpen, No. 4/4 Tennessee was unable to keep Auburn’s bats in check in the early innings and dropped Friday night’s series opener, 9-5, at Plainsman Park. A pair of two-run homers from Kavares Tears and Christian Moore provided four of UT’s…… MORE
Game Recap: Softball | April 05, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The sixth-ranked Lady Vols regained their momentum Friday night with a 5-1 series-opening victory over third-ranked Georgia at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. Tennessee (29-5, 9-1 SEC) also extended its home winning streak to 18 with the win. The Lady Vols took an early lead when Mckenna Gibson…… MORE
Fentress County, TN (WOKI) The case of a Fentress County mother and father accused of abusing their adopted children was moved to the grand jury Thursday, April 4. Jessica and Jason Klimp are suspected of abusing two of their four adopted children. One of those children, who is 12 years old, reportedly appeared so malnourished…… MORE
Maryville, TN (WOKI) Thirteen people from Blount County are indicted after an undercover investigation into methamphetamine distribution. According to a release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the investigation was part of the 313 Initiative and focused on those trafficking illicit drugs into Blount and Knox Counties from Detroit, Michigan. TBI says numerous search warrants…… MORE
An investigation is underway following a Knox County School bus crash. Knoxville Police responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Tazewell Pike Thursday afternoon. Representatives from Knox County Schools say there were 20 students on the bus, and they were taken by another bus through the rest of their route. No injuries were reported.… MORE
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A murder investigation is underway after Knoxville Police Department Homicide Unit detectives responded to a home in south Knoxville early Friday morning. At around 1:15 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024, KPD officers were dispatched to a home in the 3200 block of Gilbert Lane. Officers arrived on scene and found a 22-year-old woman dead…… MORE
