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Hayden Dunbar, Knoxville News Sentinel June 10, 2024 at 2:54 PM Longtime Knoxville physician and host of "The Dr. Bob Show" Dr. Robert Marion Overholt died June 10.
In 1986, the News-Sentinel became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the Knoxville Journal, becoming an evening paper. The Journal ceased publication as a daily in 1991, when the joint operating agreement between the two papers expired. In 2002, the paper dropped the hyphen from its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Per plans that were floated at the time, a new weekend publication, Weekend Journal, would be printed by the Persis-owned Daily Times, [12] a plan that almost failed due to lack of investment; [13] all 69 Journal staff would lose their jobs. [12] In addition, 49 News-Sentinel circulation staff positions were eliminated. [13]
James Alexander Fowler (1863–1955), U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Knoxville mayor; Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), women's suffragist; Lucius F. C. Garvin (1841–1922), former governor of Rhode Island; Sion Harris (1811–1854), member of the Liberian legislature; Bill Haslam (b. 1958), Governor of Tennessee, former mayor of Knoxville
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.
The tragic death of a 28-year-old newscaster in Arizona has left colleagues devastated. Ana Orsini, a co-anchor at CBS affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson, died last week of a brain aneurysm.Orsini's ...
The UUA president, William G. Sinkford, spoke at a vigil held at Second Presbyterian Church, in Knoxville, on July 28, 2008. [17] A relief fund was created by the UUA and its Thomas Jefferson District to aid those affected by the shooting. [18] On August 10, 2008, the Unitarian Universalist Association took out a full-page ad in The New York Times.
The 2020 Knox County stabbing occurred on April 7, 2020, shortly before 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, when Idris Abdus-Salaam stabbed three women to death and injured a fourth at a Pilot truck stop a few miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee, located at 7210 Strawberry Plains Pike. Abdus-Salaam was then shot and killed by a responding police ...