Former Sheriff’s Narcotics Chief’s Federal Trial Reset By Focus Staff The trial of David Henderson, former assistant chief of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit, has been reset. That information comes from the office of Jill McCook, U. S. Magistrate...
By Steve Hunley Out of Touch Local Democrat One Democrat candidate for County Mayor, Debbie Helsley, has announced what everybody locally has been waiting for: her solution to climate change. A press release heralding Helsley’s “Bold Climate Agenda for Knox...
By Steve Williams Halls High softball honored three team members on Senior Night and for one of them, it was extra special. Alicia Reeves, who had a medical condition her freshman season followed by spinal surgery her sophomore year, took the field for the first time...
By Ray Hill Democrats in Tennessee had routinely won elections with but few exceptions since 1900; only three times had Republicans managed to win the governorship. No Republican had ever been popularly elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee. Following an...
By Ken Lay It seemed only fitting that a freshman goalkeeper would take center stage in a penalty kick shootout for the South-Doyle High School boys soccer team as the sun was setting Thursday night. Jonah Mitchell, who made point-blank saves throughout a 1-1 draw for...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com “Thank you for having my back,” retiring City Police Chief Eve Thomas told the mayor and city council in a brief reply to the honors she received. Mayor Indya Kincannon read a proclamation that applauded Thomas for...
Early Voting Underway By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Voters are in the midst of Early Voting in Knox County and will continue to choose their primary candidates through Thursday, April 28. May 3 is Election Day. “The first two days were slow but...
By Steve Hunley Bud Armstrong Will Always Put “We The People” First It is no surprise to anyone that a few lawyers aren’t big boosters of former Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong. It was Armstrong who streamlined much of the processes from which...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Terry Caruthers is a special project librarian for the McClung Collection of the Knox County Public Library system. She’s a Colonial Village neighborhood resident and was in the last class to graduate from Young High...
By Ray Hill Every so often I am reminded of my age by recalling those leaders of my youth; most of them are gone now. Howard Baker, Bill Brock, John Duncan, Sr., Jimmy Quillen and Robin Beard. Former governor Winfield Dunn is still very much with us, thank God. It...
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