The Cherokee National Forest initiates Forest Wide Fire Restrictions prohibiting building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire outside of developed recreation areas. The Tweed Fire is still burning in the Cherokee National Forest in Cocke County and is 60% contained affecting over 500 acres. The Buck Bald fire in Polk County is also…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Rural Metro Fire crews are called to a wildfire in the Gibbs area Wednesday. Fire officials say the fire spread to around two acres before crews were able to contain it calling in assistance from the Tennessee Division of Forestry who provided bulldozers to set a perimeter, containing the fire before it…… MORE
Two Seymour men are charged after being stopped in Knoxville with more than 100 pounds of marijuana. WVLT reporting police stopped Dalton Lane and John Snyder on Callahan Drive Monday and the K9 smelled drugs in the car. Police found 100 vacuum-sealed bags with a pound of marijuana in each one. Both are facing drug…… MORE
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the search remains on-going for a man wanted on numerous sex charges including rape of a child who escaped custody. Sean Williams escaped while being transported to the Greeneville courthouse from Kentucky for a hearing on October 18th. TBI says a reward of up to $7,500 is being offered…… MORE
Lenoir City, TN (WOKI) The hunt for a Lenoir City man accused of shooting his wife multiple times Friday, November 10 is now over. The Loudon County Sheriff’s Office taking to Facebook Monday afternoon thanking the U.S. Marshals Service Smoky Mountain Fugitive Task Force for their assistance in apprehending James Burch. Burch was arrested in…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Knoxville Police arrest two men for attempted first-degree murder in a shooting that occurred in October. Police say Sean Collins and Anthony Glenn worked together to shoot a man on E. Fifth Ave with Glenn firing the weapon, which belonged to Collins, shooting a man in the head while he was in…… MORE
More information about the Knoxville Police Officer accused of asking for pictures of a naked 5-year-old girl following his court appearance. Dan Roark is facing federal charges of child pornography and is accused of asking for explicit images of the young girl of a woman he was in a relationship with and investigators revealed in…… MORE
The Knoxville Police officer arrested on federal charges involving the production of child pornography is set to appear in court today for a detention hearing. 47 year-old Officer Dan Roark was arrested Monday and is being held in the Blount County jail following an investigation which found the mother of the victim was taking pictures…… MORE
Jefferson County, TN (WOKI) A Jefferson County man is arrested Friday, November 3 following a more than two month investigation after child pornography images were uploaded to a public website. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation began on August 30 when the image upload IP address came from a home on Bales Road…… MORE
Wildfires continue to burn in parts of East Tennessee. There are two active fires according to the Tennessee Division of Forestry: One in Anderson County, the Scott Brogan Lane fire which started over the weekend. That fire is almost 400 acres and is now 85% contained. The other is in Morgan County on Hawn Road…… MORE
