Madison County, TN (WOKI) TBI UPDATE 8/4/25: The search for the man wanted in connection to the quadruple murder in West Tennessee continues, and now a third person is charged in connection to the case. TBI agents Monday morning arrested 23-year-old Dearrah Sanders of Jackson after investigators determined she assisted Austin Drummond following the murders…… MORE
Oliver Springs, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: A man is facing several charges after police in Oliver Springs, with the assistance of the Knoxville Police Department Bomb Squad, confirm the presence of homemade explosives in his vehicle. Officials with the Oliver Springs Police Department say that just after midnight Friday, officers were called to investigate a suspicious…… MORE
Tiptonville, TN (WOKI) A manhunt is now underway for a suspected quadruple murderer wanted out of Lake County in Northwest Tennessee. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has obtained warrants for 28-year-old Austin Robert Drummond charging him with four counts of First Degree Murder and one count of Aggravated Kidnapping among other charges. The warrants come…… MORE
KNOXVILLE, TN (Story courtesy of WVLT) – Two people have been charged after a child told authorities he would allegedly get locked in a dog kennel for misbehaving and get hit with a metal pole. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office said 911 received a report Tuesday morning about two small children standing in the wood…… MORE
A 17-year-old male has been arrested and charged in connection to a Minnesota Avenue shooting that injured two on Tuesday night. At just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, Knoxville Police Department officers responded to an apartment at 1944 Minnesota Avenue in the Lonsdale Homes community. Once inside the apartment, officers located two…… MORE
White Pine, TN (WOKI) Multiple dogs and puppies are removed from a White Pine home and two people are taken into custody. Animal control and White Pine Police rescued four dogs and eight puppies from an abusive home at 1310 Tabitha Street Monday, July 28. Officers responded to the home for a possible code violation…… MORE
UPDATE (7/29/25): Stephen Goins is in custody after getting into a gunfight with a McMinn County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Riceville, according to Sheriff Joe Guy. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Guy said, when Corporal Nathan Stiles responded to a “shots fired” call he was told about while at the Dollar General store. Guy…… MORE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statements after their bipartisan bill to provide relief for impacted taxpayers in states that have issued state-level disaster declarations was signed into law by President Trump. The Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act allows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to postpone filing deadlines for taxpayers affected by state-declared natural disasters,…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The U.S. Marshals Service and the agency’s Smoky Mountains Task Force arrest a man Sunday wanted in connection to a New York homicide. Officials with the Marshals Service say 32-year-old Kyshonn Green was wanted after a deadly shooting Saturday at a Wegman’s warehouse in Gates, New York. Investigators learned that Green was…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The man wanted in a deadly Knoxville shooting earlier this month has been taken into custody. Knoxville Police Department officials say 28-year-old Wayne Parham was wanted for second-degree murder in the death of 48-year-old Michael Velazquez. Velazquez was found dead in the 800 block of Howard Baker Jr. Avenue on July 6.…… MORE
