Mountain City, TN (WOKI) Citing the devastating impact wrought by Hurricane Helene, an East Tennessee textile company announces plans to close its doors in the New Year. According to a Tennessee WARN notice, Parkdale Mills in Mountain City will shut its doors for good on January 3, 2025. The notices act as a way to…… MORE
Bean Station, TN (WOKI) We’re learning more about an officer-involved shooting last month out of Bean Station. Court records indicate a police officer went to a house on Love Drive on November 30 to find a man who was wanted for stealing a vehicle. When the officer arrived, a man identified as Dustin Lee Carpenter…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wins over Florida State and Iowa last week have propelled the Tennessee women’s basketball team into the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time this season at No. 19. The Lady Volunteers beat the Seminoles (79-77) last Wednesday night in Knoxville and (then) the No. 17/20 Hawkeyes (78-68) on Saturday night in…… MORE
NEW YORK — The Boomer Esiason Foundation announced Monday that Tennessee senior Cooper Mays is a finalist for the Rimington Trophy, which annually recognizes the most outstanding center in college football. Mays becomes the first player in Tennessee history to be named a Rimington Trophy finalist since the award’s inception in 2000. He is one of three final candidates…… MORE
Update: Ronnie Donald has been located, and is safe. Original Story: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for 71-year-old Ronnie Donald who went missing while on vacation with his family in Gatlinburg. He left the hotel they were staying at around 5 p.m. last (Sunday) night, wearing a gray and black…… MORE
Knoxville Police says a man has been arrested and charged after making a fake bomb threat at West Town Mall. 32-year-old Marshall Hazlett was arrested Friday night after he claimed to have put a bomb on a TV inside one of the stores which resulted in a significant law enforcement response but officers determined the…… MORE
An alert neighbor calls the Knoxville Fire department and helps keep an apartment fire from spreading. KFD received the call Saturday for a porch on fire at the Addison at Sutherland. The neighbor also alerted the person inside about the fire. Thanks to the quick actions of the neighbor, the fire was quickly brought under…… MORE
The cause of a fire, that injures two, at the Amherst Ridge Mobile Home Park is determined to have been caused by unattended cooking, which is the leading factor contributing to cooking fires and casualties according to the National Fire Protection Association. The Knoxville Fire Department was called to Saturday’s fire in the 2600 Miss…… MORE
A Knoxville man is sentenced to more than a decade behind bars after a deadly crash involving a motorcycle on Kingston Pike. The Knox County District Attorney’s Office says 23-year-old Christian Elwood was driving down Kingston Pike at 91 mph on July 23rd in 2022 when he hit the victim, who was on a motorcycle,…… MORE
An investigation is underway into a fire at the Walmart in Rockwood. Rockwood police and fire crews are working with state arson investigators to determine the cause of Friday night’s fire. The fire was in the Garden Center with flames coming out of the roof when crews arrived, no injuries were reported.… MORE
