Mascot, TN (WOKI) State employment leaders are stepping-in to help more than 200 people find a job after an East Tennessee company announced it’s closing its doors. EXEDY America told the state it’s laying off 223 workers, all of them at their location in Mascot, and shutting down by spring. The company’s website indicates at…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Tennessee Athletics just got an official beer of the Vols, and now it also has an official moonshine! Ole Smoky Distillery made the announcement Wednesday. Owners say the “partnership perfectly combines [their] mutual commitment to promoting local culture and values with the passion and dynamic energy of college sports.” The deal is…… MORE
Farragut, Tn (WOKI) The Knox County District Attorney’s office and the sheriff’s department are still considering charges in a hit and run case. According to reports, a 16 year old student was sitting at a Farragut bus stop on Thornton Drive with her legs in the road; a driver turning onto the road, struck the…… MORE
Clinton, TN (WOKI) An Oak Ridge man, found guilty of several counts in a grisly Anderson County rape and murder case, will now join 44 other men on Tennessee’s death row. Sean Finnegan now faces the death penalty after being convicted of 11 of 13 counts Monday including first-degree murder, rape and abuse of a…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Two suspects are in custody following a robbery in North Knoxville. Knoxville Police Department officials say 26-year-old Mackenzie Weaver and 29-year-old Matthew Bryson robbed a victim Monday morning at the Red Roof Inn on Central Avenue. Police say Bryson also assaulted the victim. They were arrested on Chapman Highway a few hours…… MORE
Vonore, TN (WOKI) A former KCSO lieutenant is charged with DUI following a traffic stop in Monroe County. Officials say Charles Seth Miller quit his job at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility on August 16th, the same day he was arrested in Vonore. A state trooper says he found 22 empty or partially empty…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A longtime business leader in Knoxville has passed away. Bill Baxter, the CEO of Holston Gas, passed away on Sunday; he was 71. The Wort Hotel, a historic hotel in Jackson, Wyoming which Baxter owned, made the announcement on Sunday. Baxter was also chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority board and economic…… MORE
Blount County, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: A Blount County infant at the center of a TBI Endangered Child Alert has been found. Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation say two-month-old Chremson Blair was located Tuesday morning and is safe. The baby was reported missing Monday, having last been seen on August 9. In their alert,…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Knoxville Police have charged a woman in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash Monday night on North Broadway. KPD says officers were called to the crash near Buchanan Avenue just before 9:00 p.m. for a woman who had been hit by a car that left the scene. Police say 75-year-old Ollie Jenkins…… MORE
Nashville, TN (WOKI / WVLT) Tennessee has unveiled new designs for drivers licenses and ID cards. The new design features Tennessee’s state capitol and flag. It also has waves and patterns printed in very fine lines which cannot be scanned or easily reproduced (see photo below). Officials said the new credentials are made with a…… MORE
