Lance Coleman
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Fire engulfs Dancing Bear Lodge in November 2013
FILE - Fire fully engulfs Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend, Tennessee, in November 2013. The lodge's co-owner and the chief of the Townsend Volunteer Fire Department comment on the blaze. → Read More
From the archive: Fire engulfs Dancing Bear Lodge
From the archives: Fire fully engulfs Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend, Tennessee, in November 2013. The lodge's co-owner and the chief of the Townsend Volunteer Fire Department comment on the blaze. → Read More
Claiborne authorities investigate Saturday shooting
One person shot in Speedwell, Claiborne County. → Read More
Basic ingredients of moonshine didn't change with legality
A lot has changed about moonshine since it left Thunder Road. What haven’t changed are the basic ingredients used to make it. → Read More
Moonshine tourism creates positive impact, challenges for city
Gatlinburg distillers, officials, employees and tourists talk about how moonshine has changed tourism in that mountain town. → Read More
Moonshine permeates East Tennessee culture: From food to tourism, it plays a potent role
Overview of moonshine in Gatlinburg and how it has changed tourism in five years. → Read More
Leaders for Readers program set to help student reading
County launches new reading initiative. → Read More
Community rallies around family after deadly crash
GREENBACK —The jars and buckets are showing up everywhere, more signs of support for a family in need. → Read More
Campbell woman on trial for second-degree murder
JACKSBORO, Tenn. — Lisa Estelle Elliott told authorities when they came to her house that she shot her boyfriend to death and they should take her to prison, prosecutors told a jury in Cambell County Criminal Court on Wednesday. → Read More
Guy Carawan, folk singer, civil rights pioneer, dies in New Market
Guy Carawan, civil rights pioneer and author of the song We Shall Overcome dies following long illness. → Read More
Attorney: Settlement close in Gatlinburg wastewater plant lawsuit
A settlement could be near in the lawsuit that was initiated after two men were killed four years ago when a basin collapsed at the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant, court records indicate. → Read More
Boy killed in Tulsa standoff remembered as "exceptional"
Knox County friends of a 5-year-old boy allegedly killed by his father Friday in a Tulsa, Okla., standoff remember the young boy. → Read More
Ex-officer charged with aggravated assault in Roane shooting
Man who allegedly shot wife and held authorities at bay for four hours Saturday is charged with aggravated assault. → Read More
Roane County sheriff: Woman shot, former officer in custody after standoff
A former Lenoir City police officer is in custody after allegedly shooting his ex-wife and holding authorities at bay in a 4-hour standoff at his Roane County home Saturday. → Read More
Former Knox man charged in son's death in Tulsa
Former Knoxville man arrested after he allegedly fired on police, barricaded himself in a home for 17 hours and surrendered to authorities who found he had shot his 5-year-old son in head and killed him. → Read More
Authorities exhume body in Campbell for DNA testing after 17 years
Body of an unidentified homicide victim was exhumed from a Campbell County cemetery Wednesday morning to collect DNA to possible identify the woman whose body was found a mile from I-75 on Stinking Creek Road. → Read More
Sheriff: Monroe woman admits to 2013 homicide
Monroe County woman confesses to a 2013 homicide that was initially ruled a suicide. → Read More
Nikki Alexander: Reality star's new TV project: Balance business, family and life in East Tennessee
Nicole "Hoopz" Alexander talks about her new reality television show set to air this year, and featuring Alexander and her sisters as they live and work in Knox and Blount counties. → Read More
A slam-dunk surprise: Blount boy, 9, gets Globetrotter visit
Harlem Globetrotters on hand to unveil a redecorated bedroom for a 9-year-old Maryville boy with spina bifida. → Read More
Widow of Blount county executive files lawsuit in his death
Family of Bill Crisp, the former Blount County executive who died as a result of injuries sustained in a Townsend bicycle crash, sues person who wrecked in front of Crisp and caused him to crash and break his neck. → Read More