Knoxville TN

Morning in Tennessee usually begins with the smell of coffee and the comforting promise of a proper breakfast. Most people expect to find the best plates in busy cities or along well-known highways. Not this time. Out on a quiet stretch of road sits a restaurant that keeps things wonderfully...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Hundreds of costumed dogs and vendors packed World’s Fair Park Saturday for the 19th annual Mardi Growl parade. More than 300 vendors lined the park as dogs paraded through the center of Knoxville to New Orleans-style music. “When can you play New Orleans-style music and...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Knoxville Police Department said a teen has been charged with DUI after crashing into a home early Sunday morning. According to KPD, officers responded to a home in the 1200 block of Texas Avenue after a car crashed into a home and left the scene. A 59-year-old man at the home was also...

Misty McDaniel, 42, has been charged with aggravated neglect after her 74-year-old bed-bound father was allegedly found with severe pressure ulcers and dangerously high blood sugar levels in Knox County, Tennessee. A woman is accused of neglecting her elderly father so severely that his spine became visible through...

Friday evening in downtown Knoxville turned tense as officers shut down the corner of Union Avenue and Market Square after a man reportedly jumped from a nearby hotel, prompting a heavy police and emergency response in one of the city’s busiest nightlife corridors. Detectives and emergency personnel converged on...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn — A Knoxville man who authorities say took part in a violent 2024 revenge killing faces trial starting Monday. Marquis Ellis, 22, has been held since shortly after attackers killed Danishka Mejia, 22, and shot two other people in April 2024 in a South Knoxville home. Knox...

On Friday, East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers used its weekly "Fugitive Friday" spotlight to name Justin Alan Stines as wanted on a felony theft charge tied to an alleged vehicle theft. The notice lists Stines as about 6 feet 1 inch tall and 215 pounds, with a birth date of May 12, 1988. Crime Stoppers says he is...

Tennessee, you sly temptress. I came in thinking I’d “just try a little,” and somehow ended up in a food coma Olympics. Biscuits stacked like tiny towers of buttery ambition, fried chicken that snapped at me like it had attitude, and pies so decadent I half-expected them to wink. Every plate was a dare, every bite a...

A 21-year-old man was killed and another driver injured in a head-on collision Saturday on N. Charles Seviers Boulevard near Bland Road in Clinton, according to police. The driver of a red Suzuki Vitara, identified as 21-year-old Landon Brooks, was pronounced dead before officers arrived. The other driver was taken...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Memphis, Tennessee — Severe storm chances remain in the Mid-South forecast this week, raising concerns for damaging winds and large hail. According to the National Weather Service in Memphis, scattered...