Water is now safe to drink in Tellico Plains. Recent flooding prompted a boil advisory for the area and closed Monroe County schools which have also re-opened. Mayor Marilyn Parker says a few people are still without running water, but city hall has enough water bottles and necessities to go around throughout the weekend, they…… MORE
An arrest is made in connection to a West Knoxville Apartment fire. 32-year-old Ronnie Jowers is charged with Aggravated Arson and Evading Arrest for the fire intentionally set at an apartment in the 2000 block of Ridgebrook Drive. The Knoxville Fire Department responding to that fire Wednesday night and investigators determined it was set due…… MORE
Knox County Schools is alerting parents of issues with communication affected by a problem with the system’s internet connectivity. The mass alert was sent to parents just before 7:30 a.m. this morning. The problem is impacting access to email across the school district. Officials did say that the phones are working if parents need to…… MORE
Loudon County, TN (WOKI) A tractor-trailer driver in Loudon County is now facing a DUI charge after crashing and overturning his vehicle. Lenoir City Police Department officials say 49 year-old Said Warsame of Texas was reportedly exiting from I-75 onto 321 just before midnight Wednesday, August, 16 when he went onto the shoulder of the…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A man wanted for attempted first-degree murder in a shooting at Bebo’s Cafe is arrested. Twenty-two year-old Jaheim Houston was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Wednesday night at an address on Watauga Avenue. He was wanted on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, among other charges, stemming from the…… MORE
At the halfway mark (seven days of fourteen) of early voting for the 2023 City of Knoxville Primary Election, a total of 2,831 early votes have been cast, with an additional 590 votes cast by absentee ballot. STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN AT THE HALFWAY POINT EARLY VOTES CAST AT THE MIDWAY POINT COMPARED TO OTHER MAYORAL CITY ELECTIONS EARLY…… MORE
The Knoxville Fire Department is investigating an early morning fatal East Knoxville house fire. Crews responding to the 2000 block of Dodson Avenue and found the home engulfed in flames. Once firefighters could search the home, they found one person and dog dead inside. The home is a total loss. KFD says there were no…… MORE
A juvenile whose skeletal remains were found in the early 1980s in Cheatham County has been identified, and special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are asking for the public’s help to determine who killed her. On October 21, 1981, skeletal remains were discovered at what was then the county’s old landfill, on Highway…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Tennessee Army National Guard is called into action Monday afternoon, August 15, to rescue a hiker in a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Guard officials say a flight crew was assembled from McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base to rescue the hiker, who was suffering a severe…… MORE
An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the indictment of a Hawkins County attorney. On May 12th, at the request of 3rd Judicial District Attorney General Dan Armstrong, TBI agents began investigating allegations of forgery and bribery involving Daniel Boyd (DOB: 5/13/76), an attorney and Juvenile Court Judge in…… MORE
