Officials say the total number of people who vote early could more than double the 209,474 who voted early for the August 2008 election.

The Knoxville mayor's report shows he had poured $1 million into his campaign from the beginning of the month through Monday. He previously injected $400,000 into his effort.

While Tennessee's lawmakers work to make state immigration policy as tough as Arizona's, Tennessee businesses and professional groups are lobbying to make life easier for immigrants

It started around 3:00 am in a log home on Cherry Brook Drive in Dandridge near Douglas Lake.

Despite the good news for its supplier, Sea Ray of Knoxville, a dealer that sells Brunswick boats, describes a very slow 2010 so far.

A UT veterinarian gives tips on how to help your dog make it through the hot weather.  Taking your dog to the river on hot, sunny days could be risky.

Angela Williams said a burglar recently broke into her West Knox County home using a doggie door. The thief stole more than $60,000 worth of jewelry, according to a sheriff's report.

A Wisconsin-based organization is questioning the separation of church and state following a proposal by a Hawkins County judge to display the Ten Commandments in their new justice center.

Knoxville's Police Department and District Attorney General Randy Nichols announced Friday morning they have shut down the Orange Sports Bar and Grill on Clinton Highway for a number of illegal activities.

Local Tennessee Representative Jimmy Matlock and a group of Tennessee lawmakers are heading to Arizona to praise the state for their stance on immigration and learn more about the law.

Basil Marceaux says he's pleased with the national attention he's getting for his Republican gubernatorial bid in Tennessee, even if the coverage has largely mocked the perennial candidate.

A realigned section of Valley View Drive that will make it easier and safer for residents and other drivers to access Washington Pike near Knoxville Center Mall will open to traffic Friday morning at 9 a.m.

The group has an annual goal of raising $1 million for the park.

TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm says District Attorney General Paul Phillips asked investigators to look into possible improper conduct by jailers.  She did not give any details as to what the allegations were.

The 17 year old was shot while she sat on her porch June 9th. She would have been a senior at Austin East High School.

The database will be created under a $40,750 grant from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program

Legislators in Tennessee still plan to write immigration law like Arizona's.

Gov. Phil Bredesen, who championed tougher curriculum and testing for Tennessee students, toured the state last week touting the new standards and warning parents of the result - much lower standardized test scores coming home in September.

The recent arrival of the Emerald Ash Borer to West Knox County, could lead to a quarantine on all firewood and ash wood timber or ash wood related products in Knox and Loudon counties.

Thursday marks exactly one week until the primary election, with that in mind we continue our Heart of the Matter series, examining campaign advertisements and separate the fact from the fiction.

Graffiti on part of a Veterans memorial in downtown Knoxville has not come off since the Fourth of July.

The final ten contestants from the latest season of American Idol stopped off in Knoxville Wednesday night to sing for fans as part of their tour around the country.

In return for his guilty plea Wednesday, Father William Casey was sentenced to three years in prison, but that sentence was suspended to 24 months of supervised probation.

The tallest building in East Tennessee should finally have a new sign this weekend.

Parts of Volunteer Boulevard on the University of Tennessee campus will be closed from August 3 to August 10.

The past few years have taken a toll on the retail landscape, with many stores and brands disappearing from the scene.  But some are making a comeback.

A Sevier County couple lost their home to a fire Tuesday night.

The motorcycle officers face the sun, the heat of the bike and 25 pounds of extra gear all at once. If the weather is too extreme, the Blue Hawks can choose to park their bikes and drive cruisers.

On Wednesday, the Knox County Election Commission approved moving the voting location from Cedar Bluff Intermediate School to Cedar Bluff Middle School.  The schools are next door to each other.

A tourist town in Blount County is enforcing trespassing rules along the Little River. The water is open to all. But land along the river and even the river bottom itself belong to private property owners.

GSMNP biologists now have a better idea of how much harm was done and what it will take to repair the damage after someone attempted to sabotage a long-time brook trout restoration project.

Due to a big donation, the shelves are stocked at an East Tennessee food bank on Wednesday.

According to Jefferson County Sheriff David Davenport, victim Mickey Crocker was found by family members.

Authorities say that a helicopter crashed in a field beside the Holiday Inn Express in Newport around 9:00 am Wednesday morning.  The pilot escaped with a few scratches on his arm.

A man charged for the murder of his girlfriend's 19-month-old son was found guilty on Wednesday.

The Knox County Health Department says the bat was found in a courtyard area between the Boling Pavilion and Graduate School of Medicine building on Saturday, July 24.

A body found last Saturday near Dogwood Heights subdivision has be identified as 61-year-old Wilma Hurst.

He was the mayor of Tellico Plains for three decades. And while people still use the title, he now spends his time collecting and sharing.

Voter confusion likely following departure of former sheriff.

A judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam has made a campaign stop at the Knoxville headquarters of the family-owned Pilot Corp. chain of truck stops.

A Knox County man found a Bronze Star Medal in a pawn shop on Saturday and is now searching for its rightful owner.

The Internal Revenue Service says more than 9,300 Tennessee charities are at risk of losing their tax-exempt status because they failed to file required returns for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Tennessee gubernatorial GOP candidate tries to clarify 'cult' comment.

Tennesseans favor bringing Arizona's controversial immigration measure to the state by a four-to-one margin, a poll conducted for the TN Newspaper Network and WBIR found.

A law that allows handguns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol is proving to be unpopular with Tennesseans.

The benefits of owning a LEED certified home include cheaper energy bills and an increased resale value.

Tuesday night Knox County mayoral candidate Tim Burchett held a barbecue at the Knoxville Expo Center on Clinton Highway.

The Knoxville City Council passed a proposal with amendments Tuesday evening which allows residents to keep urban hens on their property.

Former Jefferson County Chief Deputy Bud McCoig said a couple of guys in a boat tried to steal his neighbor's boat so he started to chase them in his own boat.

When you hear the names Helen and Ellen, you probably think of the sisters who run Knoxville's Love Kitchen.

Dozens of Knoxville kids marched in support of health care on Tuesday.

A man surrendered to officers on Tuesday after facing charges of money laundering associated with the embezzlement of funds from the First Baptist Church in Morristown.

It's been three months since historic floods hit Middle Tennessee

Some Roane County residents are closer to having a new elementary school.

Officers have recovered a body from the North Shores area of a lake in the Sharp's Chapel area after a reported drowning incident Tuesday evening.

We want to know what you think about hybrid cars. What would make you buy one? Share your thoughts here.

The two women met at Knox Area Rescue Ministries, or "the mission" as its residents call it. It's a place where strangers sleep beside each other, and vulnerability is kept close.

At an event in Chattanooga earlier this month, GOP candidate for governor Ron Ramsey said: "You could even argue whether that being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, cult or whatever you want to call it?"

T.B.I. officials are opening an investigation concerning Anderson County Mayor Rex Lynch.

A pest proven deadly for trees across the country has been found in East Tennessee for the first time.

More than $200 million in federal aid will soon head to Tennessee to help the state recover from May's devastating floods.

BusinessWeek.com has ranked Tennessee as the fifth laziest state in the country, based on factors like time spent sleeping, working hours and time spent watching TV. We want to know if you think Tennesseans are lazy.

Crews have re-opened lanes on State Route 66 in Sevier County on Tuesday after a sinkhole closed them on Monday.

Lanes on I-40 W are now open after a TDOT workers repaired a sinkhole on Tuesday.

Paul Rogers' 2001 Chevy van drifted off the right edge of the road, struck a tree and then slid about 15 feet down an embankment nearly six miles west of the Townsend Y, according to a park spokesman.

American Eagle Foundation released two Bald Eaglets into the wild on Tuesday from a nesting tower on Douglas Lake.

Two people were killed and several more wounded when a gunman walked into a children's performance during Sunday services and opened fire on July 27, 2008.

Investigators said Huff had a pistol and told officers he was carrying an AK-47 and wanted to help others take over the Monroe County Courthouse and arrest "domestic enemies of the United States engaged in treason."

Officers have identified 36-year-old Angela Oaks as the victim of a fatal crash in Fountain City Tuesday morning.

The area is north of Nashville's downtown and south of Goodlettsville, in the Belshire community along Brick Church Pike. 

A body found at the Sevier County Solid Waste facility on Thursday has been identified as missing man Bobby Reagan.

Knox County teachers are learning ways to incorporate hands on lessons into science classes, including one experiment ripped from the headlines.

Stephanie Matheny said Citizens for the Ten Year Plan's purpose is to galvanize and organize support for the government plan to house the chronically homeless in Knoxville and Knox County.

The Baker Center, which opened at UT in 2003, is a public policy institute integrating research, education, public programming and archives.

Air-quality activists and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said the reversal was a setback for healthy air. Cooper sued TVA in 2006 after North Carolina passed its own emissions control mandating pollution reductions in state plants.

The West Nile virus spreads to people when a mosquito bites an infected bird then that same mosquito bites a person. So the key to stopping the spread is finding infected mosquitoes.

An ex-employee is suing a hospital linen delivery company after he says he was fired for not breaking through police barriers during the Nashville flood.

The bleak portrait of infant mortality and child and teen death rates in Tennessee may be brightening.

Gov. Phil Bredesen, the titular head of the Democratic Party in Tennessee, won a favorable rating from 74 percent of Tennesseans in a statewide poll commissioned by the Tennessee Newspaper Network and WBIR, Channel 10.

Tennesseans oppose the national health care reform law enacted by Congress at the urging of President Barack Obama by a margin of almost 2-to-1, according to a recent poll.

The Tennessee Izaak Walton League, a local environmental group, wants to clean up Fountain City Lake.  They're asking for the public's help and imput to make it happen.

An East Tennessee organization that provides mental health and drug treatment services to thousands of people is expanding. 

The City of Knoxville is planning to launch a pilot recycling program in downtown Knoxville starting this week.

County commissioners again took up the debate over the future infrastructure in Knox County's School District, hearing from a number of local experts in school construction Monday night

One person is dead and one is wounded after a shooting Saturday night in McMinn County.

A suspect tried to prevent a officers and police dog from finding him while hiding.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Energy and Natural Resources committees, started his tour of U.S. nuclear weapons facilities on Monday.

Six months since commissioners initially put the future of Hillcrest up for debate, the healthcare facility will remain under a microscope in Knox County.  Monday night, commissioners voted Hillcrest will check back with the county legislative body every quarter and the agreement with Knox County be terminated if deficiencies are not r

The Montana Highway Patrol says a 58-year-old man from Tennessee was killed when his motorcycle was struck by an SUV near Glacier National Park.

As the last week of early voting kicks off, the republicans vying to be the state's next governor spent Monday in East Tennessee.

TSSAA prohibits teams from practicing outdoors if the heat index is above 104 degrees.

A man entered a guilty plea to the robbery of a SunTrust Bank in Morristown on Monday.

Members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol are now asking for help from the public in finding the driver involved in a fatal hit and run crash in Roane County.

Two-hundred-sixty five soldiers with the Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment are scheduled to arrive on Thursday.

The Titans on Monday filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern Cal and head coach Lane Kiffin for "maliciously" interfering with the contract of running backs coach Kennedy Pola.

In a unanimous vote Monday evening, Knox County Commissioners approved $20,000 in funding that will appoint case managers to help get homeless citizens to appropriate help centers rather than Knox County's public libraries.

Tennessee and Montana announced Monday a one-game deal to open the 2011 football season in Knoxville.

Court documents give some more detail to what exactly happened during Saturday morning's south Knox County shooting.