Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily East Tennessee report from HEREKnoxville.
Events
Drivers and walkers on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Tenn., will run into Hill closures starting Thursday as crews set up for SEC Nation, which airs live from Ayres Hall Lawn on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon before the Alabama game. Network officials confirmed Monday that…
Business
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday it intends to back the Tennessee Valley Authority, based in Knoxville, Tenn., on 84 transmission and distribution projects in eight states, including Tennessee. The package is worth about $581 million. Federal dollars make up $250 million of that total, with TVA putting…
Crime
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville police want help finding Cashten Brown, 18, after gunfire outside a nightclub on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, authorities said this week. Police say Brown allegedly shot toward people standing across from the Velvet Room, a club in that avenue’s 2500 block, about 3:50 a.m. They also…
Politics
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A plan for a 55-and-older apartment community on the old Kerbela Shriners land in South Knoxville is dead in its current form after Knoxville City Council sided 5-4 with opponents on Tuesday night. Developer CR Endeavors had proposed 225 units on the property, which sits just south of…
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