The Democrats’ top pick to replace disqualified-by-felony state Rep. Joe Armstrong is himself in the midst of a legal battle in Knox County courts. An arrest warrant was issued for …
News Hole, Aug. 18, 2016: Rep. Martin Daniel Smiles for a Mugshot
News Hole [ˈnüz ˈhōl] — The vast media chasm that devours and records bits of timely information from around East Tennessee and beyond. This is a sporadic roundup of thought-worthy …
KPD Officer Working with UT Football Reassigned; UT Athletics Head Resigns
The Knoxville Police Department has decided to replace the department’s long-time liaison with the University of Tennessee football program, a move at least in part triggered by scrutiny from the …
How to Survive a Mass Shooting
It starts with gunfire—rapid bursts blasted over the loudspeaker. This time it’s just to get people’s attention, but what if those shots fired were real? What if the sound was …
Drug Deaths in Knox County Have Doubled Since 2010
The costs of East Tennessee’s prescription drug epidemic has been well documented, but precise figures on how many lives it has claimed locally have been hard to come by. The …