Category Archives: Local News
Court Records Provide New Details in Bean Station Officer-Involved Shooting
Bean Station, TN (WOKI) We’re learning more about an officer-involved shooting last month out of Bean Station.Court records indicate a police officer went to a house on Love Drive on November 30...
Dec 9, 2024
TBI Silver Alert Issued for South Carolina Missing From Gatlinburg has Ended
Update: Ronnie Donald has been located, and is safe.Original Story: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for 71-year-old Ronnie Donald who went missing while on vacation wit...
Dec 9, 2024
Knoxville Police Arrest Suspect in Bomb Threat at West Town Mall
Knoxville Police says a man has been arrested and charged after making a fake bomb threat at West Town Mall.32-year-old Marshall Hazlett was arrested Friday night after he claimed to have put a bomb o...
Dec 8, 2024
A Neighbor’s Quick Actions Prevent Apartment Fire from Spreading
An alert neighbor calls the Knoxville Fire department and helps keep an apartment fire from spreading.KFD received the call Saturday for a porch on fire at the Addison at Sutherland. The neighbor also...
Dec 8, 2024
Cause of Fire that Destroys a Home is Determined by Knoxville Fire Department Officials
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...
Dec 8, 2024
Special Education Teacher Arrested for Assault in Jefferson County, Police Say
White Pine, TN (WOKI) A teacher in Jefferson County is arrested Friday for allegedly hitting a student with an electronic device.Officials with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office say a school resou...
Dec 6, 2024
UTPD: Former Police Officer Arrested
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 ...
Dec 6, 2024
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Deadly Fire in Madisonville
Madisonville, TN (WOKI) An investigation into a house fire involving a fatality is underway in Monroe County.Officials with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office say multiple fire agencies along wi...
Dec 6, 2024
An Investigation is Underway After Three People are Injured in an Early Morning Fire in Halls
An investigation is underway following an early morning (Friday) house fire in Halls that seriously injures three.Firefighters with Rural Metro called to the home in the 100 block of Keith Way Lane an...
Dec 6, 2024
Your Chance to be Dolly in Her Broadway Musical, “The Search for Dolly”
An upcoming Dolly Parton Broadway musical is prompting "The Search for Dolly," meaning performers of all ages could play the country star on stage.Dolly put out the call, asking for people to take a m...
Dec 6, 2024
