Category Archives: Local News

Madisonville Police say a man is charged after an investigation which led to hundreds of fentanyl pills being seized.Stephen Wattenbarger is charged for sell and delivery of over 50 grams of fentanyl ...

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...

For the first time since July, American Medical Response is facing fines for not responding to Knox County emergencies on time.The fines came in October, and AMR is citing large events, like the dynam...

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Meals on Wheels is asking for help this holiday season brightening up seniors’ mornings with gift bags.The organization has a program that allows people in East Tennessee to...

Clairfield, TN (WOKI) Officials say there are multiple suspects in a double murder in Claiborne County.More than six months after two men, Nathan Hamblin and Robert Hatfield, were found murdered at th...

Nashville, TN (WOKI) Update 12/12: Country music star Morgan Wallen appeared in a Nashville courtroom Thursday pleading guilty in his now infamous chair-throwing case.Wallen pleaded guilty to two misd...

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 ...