Knoxville TN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Several people across Tennessee are participating in protests against ICE after a deadly shooting involving an ICE officer and a woman in Minneapolis. On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Downtown Knoxville to protest ICE. On Sunday, the organization, Nashville Indivisible, held a...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Local coffee shops across Knoxville are busy early each morning preparing for the day ahead, often before many people wake up. In Sequoyah Hills, Treetop Coffee Shop opens its doors at 6:30 a.m. Co-owner Rachel Casstevens said the early hours help set the tone for the day.

Clinton, Tennessee – Friday, Carrie Jenkins, age 43, had a Preliminary Hearing in Anderson County General Sessions Court, Division I on charges of Destruction of and Tampering with Governmental Records which is classified as an E Felony. Jenkins had been previously charged by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in...

Clinton, Tennessee – Friday, Clay D. Turpin, age 27, pled guilty to nine (9) charges of Falsification of Educational Records which is classified as a Class A Misdemeanor. Mr. Turpin received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days suspended to supervised probation with judicial. diversion once his probationary...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is investigating after a bear ransacked a candy store in the town of Gatlinburg.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn — A fire damaged a commercial building on Sutherland Avenue on Sunday night, but no injuries were reported, according to the Knoxville Fire Department. The Knox County Emergency Communications District received a 911 call at 8:31 p.m. reporting a large amount of smoke coming from a building near...

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Sevierville Fire Department is crediting quick-thinking from residents at an apartment complex to prevent a fire from spreading Saturday morning. SFD said crews went to an apartment complex on Mount Drive in Sevierville shortly before 7 a.m. after multiple callers reported a fire on...

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Sevierville police officers saved a man from jumping off a closed sky bridge above the French Broad River. According to a release from the city, someone called about a man in crisis on the edge of the sky bridge just before 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8. Officers with SPD’s Crisis […]

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies found a missing juvenile in a stolen vehicle on Sunday. The juvenile was missing out of Union County, SCSO said. Deputies tried to stop them on Sunday, but they fled, according to law enforcement. The juvenile was later stopped and...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Human trafficking is often hidden in plain sight, built on manipulation and control rather than force, a Knoxville survivor said as she spoke out on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Brianna Campbell said her experience began when she was a child. “I was in the 7th grade, and then...