by design | Oct 21, 2024 | Columnist, McKeehan
It’s a Crime to Call in a Bomb Threat to Get Out of Taking a Test By Jedidiah McKeehan It is likely you have seen a movie or TV show where a high school or college student in a panic, calls in a bomb threat to the school so they do not have to take a test for which...
by design | Oct 21, 2024 | The Daily Focus
TEC BRINGS RECYCLING ROUNDUP TO KNOX COUNTY Area Residents Invited to Clean Up, Drive Through, and Drop Off Tennessee Environmental Council (TEC) is excited to host their first Recycling Roundup in Knox County thanks to sponsorship funding from Cemex and and the EPA...
by design | Oct 21, 2024 | Public Notice
NON-RESIDENT NOTICE TO: DEVONTE J. BLAIR IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF A MALE CHILD WHOSE NAME FOR PURPOSES OF THESE PROCEEDINGS IS: HADDEN BLAIR, DOB 2/7/2011 By: GABRIEL AND EUGENA MATIAS, Petitioners, vs. MICAELA R. RANGEL, Respondent / Mother, and DEVONTE...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Turn Up Knoxville funded after a 7-1 council vote By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Turn Up Knoxville’s two years of violence interruption through street outreach seems to be working as the city reported a more than 30% reduction in homicides...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Is Kamala Harris Falling Behind? By Steve Hunley Kamala Harris, feeling she is falling behind, agreed to sit down for an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News, an interviewer who is not heavily biased in her favor.Unlike Whoopee Goldberg and that mummified sock...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Did you get an evacuation warning on your phone? By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Did you get an evacuation warning recently during the Western Avenue dynamite incident? While the warning was supposed to be sent out to people in the immediate area of...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Idaho’s Conservative: Herman Welker By Ray Hill It’s been 66 years since Herman Welker died and very few outside of his native state of Idaho remember his name. Welker served a single term in the United States Senate, but during his time as a member of the world’s...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Smith’s sweep ‘means a lot’ By Steve Williams The cheers for Keegan Smith down the straightaway to the finish line seemed to be louder than ever at Saturday morning’s annual KIL Boys’ Cross Country Meet. The Knoxville Catholic High senior couldn’t have been more...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Eagles go ‘extra mile’ to halt 24-game skid By Steve Williams Seymour High School was on Fall Break last week, but its football team was in Bluff City 100 miles away in the northeast corner of the state to play on a rare Tuesday night. But that’s where the Eagles...
by design | Oct 20, 2024 | The Daily Focus
WOODROW DRIVE REPAIR TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK ~ from the City of Knoxville Extensive work to repair Woodrow Drive is expected to begin this week and be completed by the end of November. KUB made extensive infrastructure improvements beneath Woodrow Drive earlier this year...
