Category Archives: Local News Reel 2

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A pastor with the Knoxville Diocese has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of "boundary violations."Father Joseph Reed is a Knoxville native and the pastor fo...

An employee at a Dollar General in Sweetwater is charged after he tells authorities he set a fire inside the store.Sweetwater Police Officers went to the Dollar General store in the 800 block of North...

Maryville, TN (WOKI) Kenneth DeHart Jr., the man accused of shooting two Blount County Sheriff's Office deputies in February, injuring one and killing the other, could face the death penalty.He appear...

A Knox County School is placed on lockdown this morning (Friday).Officials say that L&N Stem Academy was placed on lockdown due to a law-enforcement investigation near the campus.The school was lo...

Gatlinburg, TN (WOKI) A South Carolina man is convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend at a Gatlinburg rental cabin in May, 2022.According to Sevier County court record...

Triple A projects over 119 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home over the year-end holiday period which runs from December 21st to January 1st.Triple A expects an additional 3 million ...

Recommendation is that a man convicted in the 1995 murder of a Knoxville couple should not get parole.David Scarbrough was one of three men charged in connection to the murder of Les and Carol Dotts, ...

Monroe County, TN (WOKI) Two now-resigned deputies with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office are indicted on official misconduct counts.The office started an investigation into Corrections Deputy Caleb ...

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 casu...

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The University of Tennessee Police Department served active arrest warrants Wednesday on one of their own.UTPD officials say Anthony Rizo, who had been employed by the University ...