27-year-old Megan Baumann has been suspended without pay while investigators look into allegations that she had an improper relationship with a student.

In the depths of a recession jobs are worth more than their weight of gold.  It appears the price of power is becoming a bigger recruiting tool for East Tennessee when it comes to potential new employers.

Rate this year's Super Bowl ads.  Which ones were your favorites and which ones flopped?

A teacher's assistant in Knox County is on paid leave after being accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student.

The auction to sell the crown jewel of admitted Ponzi schemer Dennis Bolze's collection--his multi-million dollar house--has been delayed.

The Lookout Tower Trail, also known as the Old Jeep Road, has been closed as a safety precaution after a nearby landslide.

The Tennessee Vols three SEC wins last week over Florida, LSU and South Carolina helped them move up two spots in this week's AP Top 25.

Although firefighters battled flames for six hours, a 98-year-old home is badly damaged after a chimney fire.

The Tennessee House is set to vote on whether to turn back Gov. Phil Bredesen's veto of a bill to limit authority for requiring calorie counts on restaurant menus.

Economists at the University of Tennessee say it took more than two years to get into the current economic state, and it will take more than two years to get out of it.

Crews have successfully cleared the second rockslide on the 441 Spur, and the detour set up for it will be removed Monday night.

It could be weeks before Maggie Valley residents evacuated from their houses after a massive mudslide Friday can return home, particularly since rain forecasted for this week could bring more earth sliding down the mountain.

After almost 70 years of bickering, stalemates and glitches, a section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be protected, and Swain County, N.C., will get its due, officials say.

Proponents heralded passage of a state law to penalize employers of undocumented workers as the moment Tennessee's allure to illegal immigrants began to fade.

Tennessee's mental health agency, already struggling from last year's budget cuts, is facing a double whammy in 2010 - deeper cuts to its own budget coupled with reductions in TennCare insurance for many of its patients.

A Tennessean investigation found suspicious indications of female staff abuse of male students at Woodland Hills, including a female kitchen employee who transmitted chlamydia to a 17-year-old youth through a sexual encounter, and later lived with another male she had a relationship with at the facility.

Turning 16 used to mean complete freedom behind the wheel, but more Tennessee teens are waiting to get their driver's licenses - and some blame the rising costs of car ownership.

The son and daughter of World War I hero Alvin C. York attended the grand opening of the captured German machine gun display at the Museum of Appalachia on Sunday.

They're celebrating Mardi Gras early in New Orleans.

Roe Tolliver, 77, was found dead in his home at 1414 Deaderick Road Saturday.

Restaurants and sports bars around East Tennessee spent Sunday busily preparing for one of their biggest nights of the year.

A fire Sunday afternoon damaged a home in northeast Knoxville.

Due to the amount of equipment and supplies found at the home and in the van lead detectives to believe this operation had the capability of producing large quantities of the addictive drug.

Three men inside the truck began yelling at the victim and attempted to confront him at the intersection of Chapman Highway and Blount Avenue.

The two-vehicle crash killed both drivers and temporarily shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 75.

Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl announced Saturday that junior center Brian Williams has been reinstated to the team.

Wayne Chism scored a career-high 30 points as No. 14 Tennessee routed South Carolina 79-53 on Saturday night.

Citizens Against the Pellissippi Parkway Extension (CAPPE) cooked up opposition to the highway project with their eighth annual Chilifest cook-off.

Sarah Palin is predicting a good year for conservative candidates for public office, saying the policies of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress will be short-lived.

Swain County, North Carolina to receive $52 million in federal funds.

A 95-year-old Knoxville woman died Saturday after her car partially sank into Melton Hill Lake.

After performing more than 200 amputations in the span of about ten days in Haiti, Remote Area Medical volunteers are in Knoxville this weekend to provide free medical, dental and vision care to hundreds of people from across East Tennessee and beyond.

Congressman John Duncan addressed East Tennessee economic leaders Friday and spoke on a wide range of issues ranging from cap and trade legislation to celebrity politics.

Family members told police that when they arrived at the house that morning the front door was open, and the 78-year-old man was dead on the floor. 

Sunday marks the three year anniversary of the McClung Warehouse fire. It's a day that will forever be on the minds of people and firefighters here in East Tennessee, but some good did rise from the ashes.

Responding firefighters had to dig out one person and three dogs trapped in one of the more heavily damaged houses, Sheriff Bobby Suttles said.

Dispatchers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol said traffic is now moving after an accident on Interstate 75.

Gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp says fellow Republican Bill Haslam's decision to launch television advertisements next week is a sign of desperation.

The Tennessee Valley Authority's cleanup of a massive 2008 coal ash spill at its Kingston plant has hit a snag 500 miles away, just before the treated wastewater reaches Mobile Bay.

BAE Systems has announced it is shutting down its Grainger County body armor facility, effective as of Friday. That closure will affect 173 full-time and temporary workers.

The gates will open at Midnight--6 1/2 hours before clinic services start--for a RAM Clinic this weekend in Chilhowee Park.

Melting snow and heavy rains have TVA dams running at full capacity.

A Clinton High School teacher is under investigation for possible inappropriate relationships with one or more students.

A writing contest for Roane County students inspired a now 11-year-old girl to write about the event she calls "My 2008 Disaster."

Knoxville Police have announced the arrest of 3 people in connection with the murder of a North Knoxville man, shot in the neck while standing in the doorway of his apartment.

Perry County residents have filed notice that they plan a lawsuit against a huge landfill in west Alabama that's accepting coal ash from an environmental spill in East Tennessee.

Auto parts supplier SL America will add 300 jobs in a $35 million expansion at its SL Tennessee LLC plant in Clinton.

Sens. Lamar Alexander and Tom Carper introduced legislation Thursday to curb mercury and pollutants that cause smog and acid rain.

Derek Dooley's first public appearance in Nashville as the University of Tennessee's football coach Thursday was memorable as much for what he didn't say as what he did say.

The economic downturn means fewer parents can pay their court-ordered child support, and Tennessee is marking its first decline in child support collections in almost 10 years.

Peyton Manning has seen it all during his 12-year NFL career, and defensive coordinators have been watching his every move for all that time as well.

Cherokeewolf William Diedrich, born into poverty on the side of a dirty street, was supposed to be getting a better chance at life when he was put into foster care.

They were decked out in red, white and blue, wearing tri-corner hats and waving posters featuring Sarah Palin, who will speak Saturday night as the event's big draw.

Rural Metro firefighters responded to 3306 Noremac Road near Knoxville Center Mall just after 1:30am Friday morning.

Wayne Chism scored 20 points and Bobby Maze and Scotty Hopson hit clutch free throws in the final minute to seal a 59-54 Tennessee win over LSU.

As Knox County finalizes a deal to spend about $1.7 million on 15 acres of property in Southwest Knox County for a new school, another community is celebrating what they call success in a similar development where land owners gave 30 acres to the local school district for free.

The same day the stock market closes at it's lowest point of 2010, one East Tennessee manufacturer says goodbye to 260 workers.

In our ongoing series about East Tennessee veterans we sit down with the longest held enlisted prisoner of war in American history.

The proposed bill would put an end to the misuse of scanners.  HB 2605 is set to be reviewed Tuesday by the Tennessee House Judiciary Committee.

Kelley Cain tied a school record with eight blocked shots to go with 14 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Tennessee Lady Vols past Arkansas, 74-57.

Citing economic pressures, Armstrong Flooring will idle its strip mill, finish line, and yard operations at the Oneida plant, putting about 260 employees out of work as of April 9.

Medicaid and Medicare plan to stop payments to the home on March 8th due to violations.

The ongoing process of merging the former Baptist and St. Mary's hospital chains under the Mercy name will soon put the Mercy name on all the facilities.

The 200,000 sq/ft facility is home to the Dolly Parton Center for Women's Services, and a large emergency room complete with private patient rooms.

The pile of snow on John Keck's car is just a cluster of flakes compared to what it looked like last week.

A Newport woman crashed through the wall of a funeral home after her Toyota Camry ran amok. She cites a sticking accelerator, the same problem behind a nationwide recall.

Overall, Tennessee's roadway system ranked in at third for the 11th year in a row according to the latest survey by Overdrive Magazine. 

Police stopped 42-year-old James Schuder Thursday afternoon on a report from a motorist saying they recognized him as matching a description given on an Indianapolis TV station.

KUB officials say they looking into a gas leak discovered at the scene of a December fatal home explosion in the Whittington Creek subdivision. They say they don't yet know if it contributed to the explosion. 

The Tennessee Volunteers were one of the surprises of National Signing Day, landing a Top 10 class within three weeks of hiring Derek Dooley.

Women's fraternity Pi Beta Phi has indicated that the lease will not be extended beyond that 2012. Arrowmont is looking to get appraisals on whether it can buy the 14 acres it currently occupies.

The Tennessee Department of Health has suspended new admissions to a Knoxville nursing home based on conditions found during a complaint investigation.

Bogart, 46, will start his new duties July 1, with the retirement of Dr. Gerald W. Gibson.

Questions surround a pair of Knoxville marinas this week as one of them is on the list for tax sale and the other, just taken off.

What should and shouldn't be allowed in school vending machines?

With Valentine's Day coming up, this week's Top 5 is asking for your choice of East Tennessee's most romantic restaurant. The Viewer Pic Contest wants your pets in costume, in honor of Mardi Growl.

Sevierville's board of Mayor and Alderman debated the proposal to pay for a road connecting Highway 66 to Dumplin Creek.

Due to a snow emergency in Washington DC, an East Tennessee Toyota dealer's testimony will be delayed to February 24.

Two contractors have been indicted in Cumberland County on theft charges based on allegations that they stole $750,000 from 20 different victims of their construction company.

A tanker truck crash on I-75 has shut down the northbound lanes in McMinn County. It's expected to take until 6:30 to get the road reopened.

Larry Lee Cordin, 49, has been charged with rape of a child. Investigators with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Cordin admitted to molesting the child in an interview with investigators on Friday.

Individual artists will be announcing their Bonnaroo plans throughout the day on their individual websites and social media outlets like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.

A bill to include motorcycles in the state's "lemon law" for defective vehicles is advancing in the House.

Gov. Phil Bredesen is challenging lawmakers to either approve his plan to eliminate a tax exemption for cable bills or to find another way to restore funding for higher education and save 200 state employees' jobs.

A resolution passed before the Oak Ridge City Council on Monday, authorizing the interim city manager and city attorney to establish a written framework and timeline for repairs to the inn.

Students at Seymour High School got a bit of good news Tuesday--they are the latest school to win $100,000 in U.S. Cellular's "Calling All Communities" giveaway.

A South Knox County man discovered the burned body of 29-year-old Betty Brown in a wooded area 25 years ago. Her case still remains unsolved, but now, investigators hope new technology will finally lead them to her killer.

Former Tennessee head coach Bill Battle is one of six named to the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame board of directors.

A man wanted for the murder of his bride in Pigeon Forge has been located and arrested in Athens.

With two high-profile politicians vying for the Republican nomination for Knox County Mayor, a muckraking businessman planning to run as an independent, one question has been hanging in the air: where are the Democrats?

Officials with the Atlanta-based CDC have received confirmation of the death of Diane Caves, who was on temporary assignment in Haiti when a massive earthquake struck on January 12.

Combine the sustained winds of 10-20 mph with temperatures in the low to mid 20s, and we get wind chill values from 5-15 degrees above zero. The wind chill will be more severe in the mountains.

A Kentucky man, convicted of the murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, will not have his conviction tossed out by the judge who oversaw the case.

Tennessee lawmakers have voted to override Gov. Phil Bredesen's veto of a bill to limit local authority on requiring calorie counts to be listed on restaurant menus.

ABFS3 Robert Wagner was awarded a combat action ribbon and promoted to Petty Officer 3rd Class for quickly responding to an enemy attack in November 2009.

An unidentified man was found dead inside his home on Greer Rd. in northwest Knox County.