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Knoxville Area Blood Donors Can Get a Free Ticket to Anakeesta this Week

Knoxville Area Blood Donors Can Get a Free Ticket to Anakeesta this Week

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) This Wednesday, July 31, you can help save a life and get a ticket to Anakeesta! MEDIC Regional Blood Center is offering the free ticket to Anakeesta during this one day only event. Donors will also receive a special edition summer beach towel and a Texas Roadhouse coupon. All incentives are while…MORE

KFD: East Knoxville Home Suffers ‘Significant’ Damage in Fire

KFD: East Knoxville Home Suffers ‘Significant’ Damage in Fire

The Knoxville Fire is investigating an East Knoxville house fire that leaves 4 people without a place to call home. Crews called to the 500 block of Ben Hur Avenue Saturday afternoon and found heavy smoke and flames coming from the residence. No one was at home at the time and a dog was outside…MORE

Knoxville Police are Investigating a Shooting at a North Knoxville Apartment

Knoxville Police are investigating after a woman is shot at an apartment complex. Officers responded Inskip Flats in the 4700 block of Romeo Way yesterday (Sunday) morning after a 20-year-old woman had been shot in the lower body, she was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect has not been identified but is…MORE

Flash Flooding in Sevier County Shuts Down Several Roads and Dollywood

Flash Flooding in Sevier County Shuts Down Several Roads and Dollywood

UPDATE (7/29/24): The Sevier County Emergency Management Agency will be standing down and moving to a Level 3 monitoring situation as the waters have receded significantly and will continue to do so overnight. In the morning, folks living or staying in this portion of Sevier County will need to be on the lookout for debris…MORE

Blount Co. Sheriff’s Office Investigating Deadly Shooting in Seymour

Blount Co. Sheriff’s Office Investigating Deadly Shooting in Seymour

Seymour, TN (WOKI) One person is in custody and another is dead following a shooting Thursday in Seymour. Blount County Sheriff’s Office officials say they are investigating after one person was killed after being shot Thursday night at a house on Maple Road. A person of interest is in custody at the Blount County Correctional…MORE

KPD: Wanted Man Arrested in East Knoxville

KPD: Wanted Man Arrested in East Knoxville

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A man with multiple outstanding warrants is apprehended Thursday night in East Knoxville. Knoxville Police Department officials say 37-year-old Desanto Boyd was arrested at a home in the 4200 block of Mansion Avenue. KPD says Boyd had multiple outstanding warrants, including warrants for domestic assault and felony vandalism, as well as multiple…MORE

Knoxville Fire Department Responds to Apartment Fire on Daylily Drive

Knoxville Fire Department Responds to Apartment Fire on Daylily Drive

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Young people playing with fire may be to blame for a fire Friday morning at Montgomery Village Apartments. Knoxville Fire Department officials say crews responded to the apartment complex in the 1500 block of Daylily Drive around 11:45 a.m. to findlight smoke coming from one of the windows on the upper floor.…MORE

Blount County Man Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash, Police Say

Blount County Man Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash, Police Say

Oak Ridge, TN (WOKI) A Blount County man is the victim of a single-vehicle crash Thursday night in Oak Ridge. City of Oak Ridge officials say Oak Ridge Police Department officers responded to the 200-block of Lafayette Drive after receiving a call about an erratic driver around 8:51 p.m., and then a crash reported just…MORE