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U.S. employers extended their solid hiring into July by adding 209,000 jobs. It was the sixth straight month of job growth above 200,000, evidence that businesses are gradually shedding the caution that had marked the... More>>
A Gaza cease-fire quickly unraveled Friday as violence erupted in and around the southern town of Rafah, with at least 35 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling and the military saying an infantry officer may have been... More>>
After a surprise primary election loss, U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor will resign his seat in the House of Representatives months earlier than expected. More>>
Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric appealed to Iraqi politicians on Friday not to make themselves "an obstacle" in the country's transition as the deadline looms for selecting the next prime minister. More>>
A 57 year old johnson city man is facing criminal charges after he admitted to inappropriate activity with a juvenile... On Thursday, Johnson City Police arrested Bobby Ray Nelson and charged him with Aggravated Statutory Rape. Police said on June 8th, a parent found inappropriate text messages on her juvenile daughter's cell phone. Police described the messages between Nelson and the teen as intimate in nature. Nelson is being held on a 25 thousand dollars. More>>
Emory University Hospital has been told that a patient with the Ebola virus will be transferred to its hospital in Atlanta. More>>
With the sound of artillery fire in the distance, dozens of international investigators arrived Friday at the zone where a Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in eastern Ukraine and began preparations to comb the rural area... More>>
An investigation is underway into the cause of a crash between a bicycle and a car late last night on a section of Elizabethton Highway... It happened around 11-o-clock last night...near the intersection of King Springs Road. The Tennessee Highway Patrol tells News Channel 11 that a car traveling toward Johnson City on the Elizabethton highway was turning onto King Springs road when it struck a male riding a bicycle. The bicyclist was transported to Johnson City Medical Center with life thre... More>>
British Pvt. John Parr set off on his reconnaissance bike on the lookout for German troops amid the rolling farmland and woods south of Brussels in August 1914. It was the last anyone saw of 'Ole Man' Parr, the... More>>
Colorado will begin issuing driver's licenses and identification cards to immigrants Friday regardless of their legal status, underscoring a sea change in a state that less than a decade ago passed strict immigration... More>>
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and Carter County Sheriff's Department are investigating a Thursday night crash that sent a bicyclist to the hospital with life threatening injuries.A car traveling on the Elizabethton Highway was making a turn onto King Springs Road when the vehicle struck a bicycle with a male rider.The bicyclist was transported to the Johnson City Medical Center.There occupants of the car were not injured.THP at the scene of the crash said that the bicycle was not equipped with... More>>
A couple in West Virginia could face charges for taking their sex games out of their bedroom and onto the street.
Only a week away from Election Day, two U.S. Senate candidates will be in the Tri-Cities tonight. More>>
An animal cruelty group plans to investigate the death of a giraffe during transport in South Africa. More>>
Listen up, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Sun Trust: A Canadian bank surprised several longtime customers with touching and lovely gifts.
The owner of the home gave officers permission to search the house including the basement where her grandson Richard Little, 28, had been living.A Kingsport grandmother can't live in her own home tonight.That's because the house has been quarantined by Sheriff's deputies who say, without her knowledge, her grandson was making meth in the basement.Deputies said they found the lab after getting a tip that meth was being made in a home in the 4000 block of Potato Hill Road in Kingsport. More>>
A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a "world freedom fighter" and... More>>
Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break after failing to agree on legislation to cope with the influx of young immigrants flocking... More>>
Hours past midnight Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was still working the phones, trying to come up with a cease-fire plan to stop the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip. He'd been pushing for a deal all day - in... More>>
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire to begin Friday morning, the United Nations and United States announced, although Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned there were "no guarantees" the... More>>
A bill to address the crisis of unaccompanied migrant youths arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has died in the Senate on a procedural vote. More>>
Once more, the tea party forced House Speaker John Boehner to blink. More>>
The CIA's insistence that it did not spy on its Senate overseers collapsed Thursday with the release of a stark report by the agency's internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist... More>>
Dr. Hardev Patel once operated Quality Denture Care in Bluff City, but in May 2013 he left the practice citing a family illness. More>>
Property taxes in Carter County are slated to see a 12 cent increase after the Carter County Commission voted to override the mayor’s veto and passed the budget in a special called meeting Thursday morning. More>>
A brand new food truck in Johnson City is finding out it is having trouble fitting in, and its not because of what they are serving.
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The Birthplace of Country Music Museum will officially open its doors to the public on Friday and people from across the nation are making their way to Bristol for its grand opening. More>>
Connie AndesA Johnson City woman was arrested after police said she stole a doctor’s prescription pad and wrote herself prescriptions for narcotics. More>>
Nathan McCollumAfter just two days on state’s Top Ten Most Wanted list, state, county and federal law enforcement arrested a man wanted on numerous charges, including aggravated kidnapping. More>>
An East Tennessee doctor treating Ebola patients in West Africa has just returned home after being evacuated by the aid group he was working for.
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CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the emails of Senate staff, and exhibited a "lack of candor" when interviewed by agency investigators, according to a declassified CIA inspector general's report. More>>
As mortar fire landed nearby, an international team of investigators finally reached the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 wreckage site Thursday and got their first look at a scene experts fear has been badly compromised in the... More>>
As the area prepares for the upcoming race weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, the folks at Food City are gearing up for the running of the August 22nd Food City 300.Company officials recently announced that a gathering of at least ten Medal of Honor recipients will serve as the event Grand Marshals. More>>
The exercise will take place on the VA Medical Center campus. Emergency vehicles will be present, and no action on behalf of students and employees will be required. More>>
Two American aid workers have been infected with the Ebola virus as it continues to spread across West Africa, meanwhile the Peace Corps is pulling its volunteers from the region. More>>
Johnson City Police Department officers arrested an Elizabethton man on theft charges Thursday, after he allegedly stole a trailer from a Sullivan County residence. More>>
Washington County, Va. Sheriff’s Office arrested a Meadowview, Va. man on numerous felony charges Wednesday involving identity theft. More>>
Kelly GageJohnson City Police Department officers arrested a man Wednesday following a report of fraud at a local jewelry store. More>>
Jonnie Williams is on the stand first thing this morning as day 4 of the McDonnell corruption trial begins this morning.
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Just days after we reported the problem of bigamy as part of a special report, a Hawkins County woman filed a bigamy report with the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office. According to a police report filed yesterday, Christina Dawn Knight went to the courthouse to file for divorce only to find out her husband is still married to his first wife. Knight says she and her husband have been married for more than five years and says until recently, she had no clue the man was still married More>>
Jonathan ColeElizabethton Police Department arrested a 19-year-old man Wednesday following an investigation into rape back in May. More>>
Kingsport Police Department officers are currently searching for two people they said stole two smartphones from a Kingsport cellphone store. More>>
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, there are few options left in the Ukraine crisis and they all look bad. More>>
The grand jury was presented evidence that Samuel A. Ireson, 23, was traveling 89 mph when he hit 53-year-old Blountville resident Kimberly S. Wieger's car on March 9. More>>
According to officials, a patient arrived at Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Department on Tuesday evening after visiting a country known for high risk of infectious diseases.
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A man from Sevierville who was added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted list Tuesday was arrested in Morristown early Thursday morning. More>>
A Canadian teen and aspiring engineer build a roller coaster in his parents backyard. A creation which took four years to build and named 'The Minotaur.' More>>
USA.gov is a valuable resource as parents, teachers and kids get ready to head back to school. The website contains volumes of information on how to save money, programs available to schools and districts and more. More>>
On 07/28/14, officers of the Johnson City Police Department arrested Sherry Franklin (104 Delta Circle, Greeneville, Tennessee; 47 years old) and charged her with Theft over $500 – Shoplifting and Aggravated Criminal Trespassing. According to Walmart loss prevention officers, Franklin attempted to leave the store without paying for over $900 in merchandise. Franklin had previously been banned from Walmart properties for shoplifting. Franklin was transported to the Washington County Detention ... More>>
Most travelers know the annoyance of standing in those long airport security lines. New this morning-- the Transportation Security Administration wants to know what you'd do to fix the problem. The T-S-A is offering a total of 15-thousand dollars to those who come up with the best ways to shorten those lines. The agency wants ideas for better layouts of lines, taking into consideration changing flight schedules, peak hours and T-S-A staffing. More>>
Wellmont Health System is closer to aligning itself with another heath system. It’s narrowed its list of potential partners from six to three – including a system in the region and two “significant” health systems “beyond” the region. More>>
A small plane crashed in a San Diego shopping center parking lot Wednesday, killing an 80-year-old woman who was the lone passenger and injuring the pilot, authorities said. More>>
Our review of campaign finance filings shows Rep. Hill has given two family businesses, both of which are now run out of homes, a lot of money from his campaign over the years. Phil Carriger's latest ad accuses Rep. Matthew Hill (R-District 7) and his family of potentially unethical campaign practices; something the incumbent says is despicable and shows Carriger isn't afraid to get "in the mud." However, a review of the Hills' campaign finance filings over the years shows Carriger's claims are based on facts. More>>
New insight tonight into Sunday's tornado outbreak in East Tennessee. More>>
Caretakers of the New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Surgoinsville first noticed damage to more than 70 headstones in mid July.Surgoinsville Police Chief, James Hammonds, said after observing the damage, which appeared to be caused by a steel brush, he developed a suspect after an internet search produced pictures taken at the cemetery.Hammonds said the suspect in the case said he had been trying to research some of the grave markers some of which date back to the 1700's.Hammonds ... More>>
It's a holiday made just for shopping. The statewide tax-free weekend is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. More>>
The American Red Cross says 32 homes were destroyed in a severe weather outbreak that hit East Tennessee last Sunday.The National Weather Service said two EF-1 tornadoes hit Washington and Sullivan Counties. An EF-3 tornado hit Claiborne County.The damage total also includes Johnson County in Northeast Tennessee as well as Anderson, Campbell, Knox, Jefferson, Union, and Sevier Counties. More>>
Eager to begin a monthlong break, Congress leavened its customary heavy partisanship on Wednesday with a pinch of compromise, advancing legislation to repair the deeply troubled Department of Veterans Affairs and working... More>>
Some Tennessee voters will soon have a chance to decide on whether they’d like to see wine in grocery stores.To get the issue on the November ballot, each city needs ten percent of voters to sign a petition. Petitions have been filed in cities across Northeast Tennessee, and some of them have already collected the required number of signatures.Some Tennessee voters will soon have a chance to decide on whether they’d like to see wine in grocery stores.To get the issue on the November ballot, e... More>>
The Tennessee Department of Transportation is anxiously waiting to see if Congress can agree on a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund a float before an August 1 deadline. More>>
"For these children and their families, it's a very critical time," Commissioner Doug Varney said. "It's very critical that they get the right kind of help. So far the transition has gone very well."Tennessee Commissioner of Health Doug Varney defends his decision to award a state contract to his former employer Frontier Health despite the apparent excellent work from the former contract holder. More>>
The House overwhelmingly approved a landmark bill Wednesday to help veterans avoid long waits for health care that have plagued the Veterans Affairs Department for years. More>>
The largest recorded Ebola outbreak in history has led the U.S. Peace Corps to evacuate hundreds of volunteers from three affected West African countries, and a State Department official on Wednesday said two volunteers... More>>
Israeli artillery shells tore through the walls of a U.N. school crowded with sleeping war refugees and back-to-back explosions rocked a market filled with shoppers Wednesday as Israel's stepped up campaign against... More>>
A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other... More>>
After people in Washington County, Virginia fought for months against drilling for natural gas, county officials have now proposed to allow drilling county-wide.Many in Washington County are upset after a meeting Monday night where the Board of Supervisors threw out an ordinance that had been in the works for years.The ordinance was aimed at giving regulations and parameters for "fracking" in Washington County.The fracking process injects water, sand and chemicals at high pressures undergroun... More>>
Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president's new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in a report released Wednesday. More>>
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Wine in grocery stores will be on the ballot for some voters in November. Voters in Kingsport and Bristol will have the chance to vote whether or not they want wine to be sold in grocery stores. More>>
Washington county leaders are pumping the breaks on a long awaited project to build a new Boones Creek Middle School.For years the county has discussed upgrading the 1939 building to fit the needs of current students. Recently, a proposal was discussed that would see a new school built for both city and county students."We do not in my opinion need two new schools built out here in Boones Creek. One serving Johnson City, and one serving Washington County. I don't think that's appropriate for ... More>>
Up to 6,000 people a day have fled Libya into neighboring Tunisia this week, the Tunisian foreign minister said Wednesday, the biggest influx since Libya's 2011 civil war in a sign of the spiraling turmoil as rival... More>>
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood purchased the 4,200 square-foot home in June 2008 for $4.95 million. More>>
It's official! Atlanta will be stop No. 2 and the first southern date on the Garth Brooks World Tour. More>>
U.S. and European sanctions against Russia's energy and finance sectors are strong enough to cause deep, long-lasting damage within months unless Moscow persuades the West to repeal them by withdrawing support for... More>>
Almost two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky, the remains of some passengers are feared rotting in the 90-degree (32-degree Celsius) midsummer heat, deepening the frustration of relatives... More>>
Investigators say Wills admitted to them that he had indeed broken into the home at least three times prior, as well as into his former boss' truck once. More>>
In a story July 29 about consumer debt reported to collection agencies, The Associated Press erroneously indicated that 80 percent of Americans have no debt on file. The study released Tuesday by the Urban Institute found... More>>
The former assistant to the wealthy businessman at the center of the corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife took the stand Wednesday to talk about trips and checks for the former first family. More>>
Dragon Boat Festival (Source: Mountain States Health Alliance) The ninth annual Mountain States Foundation Dragon Boat Festival is coming up Saturday, Sept. 6, on Boone Lake at Winged Deer Park, and now’s the time to create or join a paddle team. More>>
One little boy dreamed of being Batman and the city of San Francisco made his wish happen. Now, 5 year-old leukemia survivor Miles Scott, better known as "Batkid" is heading to the big screen. More>>
On 7/29/2014 officers of the Johnson City Police Department arrested David A. Cole, of 2023 E Myrtle Avenue Johnson City, TN, a 34 year old male, on the charge of Auto Burglary. Officers responded to a 911 call in reference to a burglarized vehicle at 1908 E t Avenue. After a brief investigation the suspect was located with the stolen property in his possession. The defendant was charged with Auto Burglary and transported to the Washington County Detention Center where he is being held on $10... More>>
The inmates, Calvin Lee Metcalf, 20, Bakersville, NC, and Phillip Nicholas Metcalf, 25, Spruce Pine, assaulted a deputy in Avery County around 4 p.m. Tuesday, according to the McDowell County Sheriff's Office.News Channel 11 has learned the escaped inmates who assaulted an Avery County deputy and stole his truck at gunpoint have been found. More>>
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had added a fugitive from Sevierville to its top 10 most wanted list. More>>
A movie theater chain says it's reviewing complaints after its Augusta theater showed scenes from the R-rated film "Sex Tape" instead of the children's movie "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" in a summer movie program... More>>
Greenwood Drive was closed as the crash was being investigated.A wreck involving two vehicles and a motorcycle critically injured one person Tuesday night.Two other people were taken to the hospital as well.The wreck happened just after 8 p.m. on Greenwood Drive two miles outside the Johnson City limits. More>>
The four-door Mini Cooper Countryman was the only one of 12 cars to earn a top rating of "good" in new frontal crash tests. More>>
Woodbury recently won his first belt in an MMA fight.Kingsport Police are looking for Lucky Anthony Ross , 37, also known as "Ant". More>>
After 50 years under lock and key, the steamy love letters of President Warren G. Harding and his mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips, were released on Tuesday. More>>
A mob armed with knives and axes rampaged through part of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang and police responded with gunfire, leaving dozens of people dead in the latest violence blamed Islamic... More>>
The NCAA agreed on Tuesday to help athletes with head injuries in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit that college sports' governing body touted as a major step forward but that critics say doesn't go... More>>
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The Senate voted Tuesday to keep federal highway money flowing to the states into December but only after rejecting the House's reliance on what lawmakers called a funding "gimmick" and moving to force a post-election... More>>
The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, has died in Georgia. More>>
Sunday, a tornado swept through the Rock Springs area of Kingsport leaving significant damage. Perhaps, the most extreme damage was found at 1912 Rock Springs Road where a home was almost destroyed. More>>
For nearly two months, images of immigrant children who have crossed the border without a parent, only to wind up in concrete holding cells once in the United States, have tugged at heartstrings. Yet most Americans now say... More>>
Monday morning the majority of Washington County Tennessee Commissioners voted yes on endorsing Tennessee Amendment One.If passed, Amendment One would change the Tennessee Constitution and allow state leaders to further regulate abortions in the state such as implementing a waiting period for women seeking the medical procedure, among other restrictions.“It’s an amendment that addresses two things primarily one, are fundamental rights as citizens of Tennessee and how we define fundamental rig... More>>
The State of Tennessee didn't have the money to give its employees raises this year but a Community Watchdog investigation revealed in past years some of the governor's staffers quietly took home bigger raises than other state workers, with one collecting sizeable raises twice in the last four years. More>>
News Channel 11 is following a single car accident in Kingsport. A car rammed into Rack Room Shoes on North Eastman Road around 4:00 p.m. today. More>>
You may have heard the ads on television asking voters to replace the three Tennessee Supreme Court justices up for retention.Typically the race for Supreme Court judge goes under the radar but this year some conservative groups are making sure that is not the case.Chief Justice Gary Wade, Justice Cornelia Clark, and Justice Sharon Lee are up for retention after eight years on the bench.Tuesday Wade toured the justice center in Jonesborough and the jail, campaigning to keep his spot as chief ... More>>
Spurred to action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state-owned banks.... More>>
Israel unleashed its heaviest air and artillery assault of the Gaza war on Tuesday, destroying key symbols of Hamas control, shutting down the territory's only power plant and leaving at least 128 Palestinians dead on... More>>
All lanes of Interstate 40 East are back open after one person was killed in a fiery crash involving two tractor-trailers and a truck Tuesday morning. More>>
Hundreds of people across the country lined up Tuesday to tell the Environmental Protection Agency that its new rules for power-plant pollution either go too far or not far enough. More>>
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald as the new Veterans Affairs secretary, with a mission to overhaul an agency beleaguered by long veterans' waits for health... More>>
Country superstar Dierks Bentley will rock Bristol Motor Speedway during August race week.
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A warrant has been obtained for Lucky “Ant” Anthony Ross. He’s charged with first degree murder. More>>
Plans are in the works for leukemia survivor Miles Scott, 5, to star in the documentary “Batkid Begins.”
Plans are in the works for leukemia survivor Miles Scott, 5, to star in the documentary “Batkid Begins.”
The U.S. economy grew at a 4 percent annual rate in the second quarter, marking a turnaround.
The U.S. economy grew at a 4 percent annual rate in the second quarter, marking a turnaround.
A buyer for Jensen's Grocery Store predicts that in the next two to three months, prices will go up 15 to 20 percent.
A buyer for Jensen's Grocery Store predicts that in the next two to three months, prices will go up 15 to 20 percent.
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No vacation ever really goes the way you think it will and despite how much you want to escape work, sometimes your boss shows up on the beach while you’re dancing with your friends and fires you because you weren’t supposed to be taking a vacation in the first place.
No vacation ever really goes the way you think it will and despite how much you want to escape work, sometimes your boss shows up on the beach while you’re dancing with your friends and fires you because you weren’t supposed to be taking a vacation in the first place.
North Korea's supreme leader and The Onion's 2012 Sexiest Man Alive is quite upset about a video making the rounds. A YouTube viral hit out of China features Kim Jong-un's head pasted to several clips of people dancing and breaking out karate moves.
North Korea's supreme leader and The Onion's 2012 Sexiest Man Alive is quite upset about a video making the rounds. A YouTube viral hit out of China features Kim Jong-un's head pasted to several clips of people dancing and breaking out karate moves.
Traveler Gina Hyams caught a massive cloud-to-ground lightning strike while on a flight Thursday.
Traveler Gina Hyams caught a massive cloud-to-ground lightning strike while on a flight Thursday.
Astronaut Alexander Gerst took a photo of the fighting in the Middle East from the International Space Station, calling it his "saddest photo" yet.
Astronaut Alexander Gerst took a photo of the fighting in the Middle East from the International Space Station, calling it his "saddest photo" yet.
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