The Knoxville Focus is sitting down with several city and county officials, community leaders and residents. The casual chats will, hopefully, let you get to know them on a personal level. As Knoxville’s first director of the office of business support Patricia...

  By David Klein In a Class 6A State Quarterfinal matchup at Maryville, the Maryville Rebels overcame a sluggish start on offense and used tough, opportunistic defense to defeat the Farragut Admirals 26-10. Maryville was balanced on offense as it ran for 184...

By Steve Williams Another good Austin-East High School football season has ended against Alcoa. The Roadrunners (9-4) lost to the undefeated Tornadoes 24-6 in the TSSAA Class 3A quarterfinal round at Alcoa Friday night. “Our team played hard last night,” said A-E...

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The one bright blue spot in Tuesday’s election was the victory of Gloria Johnson who won the 13th District Tennessee House race over incumbent Republican Eddie Smith. Johnson won with about 55% of the vote in a state and...

By Steve Williams Central High’s football team has a big challenge ahead of it this week in the TSSAA 5A playoffs. Region 1 champion David Crockett High will be riding into Fountain City with a 12-0 record. In their second round game last week, the Pioneers posted a...