by design | Dec 27, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams The Battle in Rocky Top youth football tournament turned 15 years old this season and “it’s really grown,” said Josh Jones, who started the tourney in 2006. Jones, a former longtime local youth coach who now is the quarterbacks coach and...
by Ray Hill | Dec 27, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill In the twentieth century, only four nominees to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States have been rejected; all were the nominees of a Republican president and three of the four were rejected by Democrats, who controlled the United States...
by design | Dec 27, 2020 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Williams Local high school teams and student-athletes were ready and eager to help during the holidays this year like they normally do, but with the pandemic, this hasn’t been a normal year. Therefore, their community service wasn’t needed as some...
by Tom Mattingly | Dec 27, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly On October 27, 1928, Maj. Bob Neyland was in the midst of his first tenure as Volunteer head coach. The Vols had defeated Alabama the week before in Tuscaloosa, 15-13, led by Gene McEver’s 98-yard return of the opening kickoff. Neyland’s charges were...
by design | Dec 27, 2020 | The Daily Focus
Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation (KCDC) has been awarded 25 additional Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program to help non-elderly, disabled residents...
by design | Dec 26, 2020 | The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely Speaking before the Knox County Pension Board on Monday, Attorney John Owings said that the Etters vs. Knox County suit is “pretty much on hold” since last month. He said all court actions are almost “at a screeching halt” and he...
