Rocky Top, TN (WOKI) The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has identified the victim in Tuesday’s deadly apartment fire in Rocky Top. TBI officials say 69-year-old Danny Cecil Parks died in the fire which broke out early Tuesday morning on Main Street. That fire also leaving several people without a home. The investigation remains ongoing into the…… MORE
The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office says Christopher Finchum was arrested following a drug investigation after a brief car pursuit in the Edwina Area yesterday (Thursday). A Newport man is arrested after a short police chase. Finchum is charged with multiple drug charges and evading arrest among other charges. The investigation is ongoing.… MORE
Jefferson County, TN (WOKI) An East Tennessee high school basketball coach is suspended after getting a DUI. According to Jefferson County High School, head boys basketball coach Andy Hill was arrested Tuesday night. He is charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a crash. School officials say injuries were minor. Hill is…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Knox County Criminal Court has denied a petition for post-conviction relief made by a man convicted in the murder of Zaevion Dobson, a teen who was killed while shielding his friends from gang-related gunfire. Christopher Bassett Jr. was convicted alongside Kipling Colbert Jr. and Richard Williams in December of 2017 in the…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a dead body is found on a golf course. KCSO says the man’s body was found Tuesday morning, January 23, in a pond on Willow Creek Golf Course. The initial investigation shows no signs of foul play; however, this investigation is in the preliminary…… MORE
Tennessee’s extreme winter weather event over the last week has left 34 dead across the state, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency’s latest update. TEMA said the State Emergency Operations Center in Nashville is activated at a Level 4 – Elevated to support local requests. “The extreme cold experienced last week is transitioning out…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A Knoxville pastor out for his morning jog Monday finds a man lying dead outside of Edgewood Chapel AME Zion Church. Knoxville Police Department officials say the pastor came across the deceased man around 7:30 a.m. outside of the church located at 2440 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. Officers dispatched to the…… MORE
Knoxville Police arrest a teen for carjacking. Officers called to the 1400 block of Beaumont Avenue after a woman reported her car was taken at gunpoint yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Officers spotted the car which eventually crashed at Texas Avenue and Sherman Street and the man, identified as 18 year-old Shaun Sullivan, ran from the car…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Officials with the Knoxville Police Department are confirming the discovery of a dead woman outside of an apartment complex near Old City. Officials say police along with the Knoxville Fire Department and the Medical Examiner’s Office responded around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 17 to the complex at 246 Hall of Fame Drive.…… MORE
Knoxville Police say one of the two people accused of carjacking a USPS truck has been arrested. 18 year-old Kemian Strawder was arrested at the Hardee’s on Clinton Highway yesterday (Thursday), Officers found him with a loaded handgun. He is wanted in connection to the December 6th carjacking on Dandridge Avenue of the USPS worker…… MORE
