May 15th, 2012 
The Knoxville Journal The opening of the relocated exit ramp from I-140 eastbound to Northshore Drive (Exit 5) which was scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, 2012, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 due to inclement weather.
Beginning after 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning, May 16, 2012, motorists should be alert for a new traffic pattern using the eastbound exit ramp to Northshore Drive.
May 14th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal A 30-year-old Knoxville man died after jumping from the Interstate 275 overpass bridge at Western Avenue, Saturday morning. This same man was rescued after a similar attempt, April 5.
Knoxville Police Lt. David Powell said that at approximately 3:01 a.m. on Saturday May 12, officers responded to a individual sitting on the concrete wall of the exit ramp bridge from I-275 to Western Ave. Upon arrival they observed the individual sitting on the wall directly in front of his vehicle, which was parked on the shoulder of the bridge.
May 14th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal Knoxville Police are searching for a man in connection with a hit and run crash that left one dead and injured three others, Saturday night.
At approximately 11 p.m.On May 12, officers responded to the scene of a fatal hit and run crash that occurred on Castle Street at Lay Street.
According to the preliminary investigation a 2012 Nissan Altima was travelling north on Castle while a 2008 Ford Expedition was travelling south on Castle.
May 14th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal 
May 14th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal The law in Tennessee is now clear that our schools are to teach students the value of abstinence, provide them medically accurate information about disease and pregnancy prevention, and equip them with the tools and life-skills they need to choose abstinence. And for the first time, parents will have meaningful avenues of recourse if teachers or outside organizations teach their child a have-sex-but-just-use-a-condom type of sex education.
May 11th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal 
Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton says, “It is one of the worst, graphic pictures of a child I had ever seen in my career of more than 30 years.”
The sheriff was describing Clifford Dotson, a two-year-old boy who weighed seven-pounds when born, but only 12-pounds when he died of
May 11th, 2012 The Knoxville Journal Tasering an injured wreck victim strapped to an ambulance backboard does not violate their rights. That is the message a federal jury sent with their verdict after a $14 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court Eastern Division in Knoxville. The trial began Monday, May 7, and concluded just after lunch Tuesday, May 8.
A jury in U.S. District Court Tuesday, May 8, ruled that it was not a violation of an injured wreck victim’s civil rights for deputies to beat and Taser him while he was strapped to a paramedic’s backboard because he would not tell them who was driving the car when it wrecked.
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