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Update: All four inmates who escaped from the Silverdale Detention Center in Chattanooga early Saturday morning have been captured. Authorities caught up with two of the inmates shortly after they bro...

Tennessee's traditional sales tax holiday on clothing, school supplies and computers begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 29, 2022, and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, 2022. During this time cl...

NASHVILLE --- The July 27 application deadline is approaching for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency 2022 Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Big Game Quota Hunts, the regular elk hunts, youth elk hun...

WVLT reports that five young men were arrested after they allegedly shot a boater while they were drinking and firing guns on the Holston River. The men were reportedly shooting at a target on the riv...

Actress Shonka Dukureh, who recently made her big screen debut as Big Mama Thorton in the movie "Elvis", was found dead in the bedroom of her Nashville apartment Thursday morning. She was 44. One of h...

Officials are investigating Thursday's explosion at a manufacturing plant near the Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge Airport. It happened at Johnson Matthey Catalysts and there were no injuries. Sevierville Fir...

Update: Christopher Falls was captured in Illinois Thursday afternoon (July 21, 2022) in Illinois. Original story: Authorities are searching for a man charged with the murder of a Morgan County Woman....

The rate at which people looked for new jobs across Tennessee held steady in June, according to newly released data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). The latest statistic...

A Tennessee Army National Guard medical flight crew responded to an emergency air evacuation mission when a hiker began suffering a life-threatening illness while hiking in the Great Smoky Mountain Na...

Another person has died from COVID-19 in Cumberland County over the past week, bringing the county's coronavirus death toll to 330 as of Saturday, July 16, 2022. Positive cases in Cumberland County gr...