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First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

One Tank Trip: Jamestown

By 6 News Anchor/ReporterJAMESTOWN (WATE) - If you're looking for a place to take the family on a quick trip without spending a ton of money in gas, Jamestown is an ideal spot for a One Tank Trip.Located on the Cumberland Plateau halfway between Nashville ... [Published WATE - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Muscadine, Winemaker, Short Ton

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

2 residents taken to the hospital after Knoxville electrical fire

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Two people were taken to the hospital early Wednesday morning after what officials believe was an electrical fire at a Knoxville home.Police officers say they were initially called to 1720 Massachusetts Avenue about 2:27 a.m. for a ... [Published WATE - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Rural/Metro Corporation, Smoke Inhalation, Oxygen

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

6 News Anchor Kristin Farley experiences firsthand the Okla. tornado devastation

MOORE, Okla. (WATE) - 6 News Anchor/Reporter Kristin Farley was in Oklahoma reporting from some of the worst tornado devastation in the area on Tuesday evening.A massive EF-5 tornado tore a 12-mile path of destruction that killed 24 people, including ... [Published WATE - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Split Up, Cellphone

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

A Blount County elementary is one of few schools with tornado shelter

Tornado shelters are essentially vaults within the school walls. Regulated by FEMA, they are meant to withstand 200 mile per hour winds, the strength of an EF5 tornado. ... [Published WATE - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Food Bank

Second Harvest prepares to send food, water to Oklahoma

MARYVILLE (WATE) - Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee is preparing to send food to Oklahoma.Twelve pallets of FEMA disaster relief snack food kits and 12 pallets of water bottles will be sent to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.The snack kits ... [Published WATE - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Harvest, Food Bank, FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Imax Corporation

Redevelopment rivalry between Chattanooga and Knoxville benefited both cities

By GENE PATTERSON6 News Anchor/ReporterKNOXVILLE (WATE) - In 1969, legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite declared that Chattanooga was the dirtiest city in America.That designation spurred Chattanooga to clean up its act.And over the past 40 years, it ... [Published WATE - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Walter Cronkite, Imax Corporation

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Pharmacist admits misbranding dialysis drugs

A Tennessee pharmacist has admitted distributing a misbranded Chinese-made drug that was given to kidney dialysis patients in Kansas. ... [Published WATE - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Dialysis, Pharmacist, Drugs

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Bundled in Love ministry makes blankets for tornado victims

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A Knoxville group is making blankets for victims of the Oklahoma tornado.Bundled in Love, a ministry from Hillcrest United Methodist Church, wants to reach out to Oklahomans.They will have 50 blankets as of Tuesday night to send to ... [Published WATE - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, United Methodist Church, Security

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Oklahoma tornado brings back memories of 1996 Fentress Co. tornado

JAMESTOWN (WATE) - Two elementary schools were directly impacted by a massive tornado in the Oklahoma City area on Monday.It brings to mind a storm from a 1996 tornado which destroyed the Allardt Elementary School in Fentress County.No one was killed, ... [Published WATE - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Ernest Campbell, Memory, Meteorology

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

2 KPD officers resign after allegedly beating homeless man

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Two Knoxville police officers have resigned amid an investigation into the alleged beating of a homeless man.Jeremy Jinnett and Chris Whitfield are two of the three put in administrative positions earlier this year after a claim they ... [Published WATE - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Communist Party of Germany, Resignation, Arrests, Investigation

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

5 suspects arrested after overnight meth lab bust in Seymour

Crews were called to 608 Equestrian Circle in the Blount County section of Seymour just after 3:00 a.m. Monday morning for what was originally a robbery call.Once officers arrived, they discovered an active meth lab.The suspects all ran into the woods. ... [Published WATE - May 20 2013]

Entities: Methamphetamine, Finished Product, Quarantine

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Honey Boo Boo vacations in Pigeon Forge

PIGEON FORGE (WATE) - Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, star of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," reality TV show, and her colorful family are paying a visit to East Tennessee.Honey Boo Boo is in Pigeon Forge with her mother, Mama June Shannon, and Shannon's ... [Published WATE - May 20 2013]

Entities: Brain Cancer, Sugar

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You can kick back, and take in the history of the area at the same time. "I can't imagine anyone wanting to stay at a hotel when they could have the whole schoolhouse and the porches and the wonderful sunsets" said Lowanda Gernt, owner of the Old Allardt Schoolhouse

One Tank Trip: Jamestown [Published WATE - 1 hour ago]

Neely loves Knoxville's downtown. "There are a lot of things that Chattanooga did first, but we're doing it better now" Neely said

Redevelopment rivalry between Chattanooga and Knoxville benefited both cities [Published WATE - 11 hours ago]

"The beauty of us, the network, is that we literally can send a tractor trailer tomorrow, and this could be here tomorrow night, and FEMA will come through and they will have food there, but there is some red tape that FEMA food has to go through where as the network can get this to the victim's tomorrow night" said Elaine Streno, with Second Harvest Food Bank

Second Harvest prepares to send food, water to Oklahoma [Published WATE - 14 hours ago]

"Not only were some of the roofs were destroyed, but the gym was heavily damaged" said Campbell

Oklahoma tornado brings back memories of 1996 Fentress Co. tornado [Published WATE - 15 hours ago]

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