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Website sells 'murderabilia' outraging victims' families

Jamie Satterfield The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 2:06pm

May Martinez sits in her Jacksonville, Fla., living room, staring at the box full of her slain daughter's ashes and wishing she could afford a plane ticket to confront the teenager's killer.

Five miles away, Eric Gein is counting the cash he earns from selling that killer's "murderabilia" -- graphic letters, greeting cards, artwork and, even, her panties.

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Study shows electric cars pollute also

Rebecca D. Williams The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 1:34pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Electric cars have a dirty little secret.

Heavily advertised for their "zero" emissions, electric cars actually can expose people to more air pollution than gasoline cars, according to a University of Tennessee study.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the top national park in the U.S. for visitor spending. In 2010 the park's 9 million visitors spent more than $818 million in neighboring communities

Study: National parks boost local economies by $12 billion

Morgan Simmons The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 3:02pm

A new study by Michigan State University shows that Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the top national park in the U.S. for visitor spending.

The "Economic Benefits to Local Communities from National Park Visitation and Payroll" estimates that in 2010 the park's 9 million visitors spent more than $818 million in neighboring communities -- double the $415 million generated by Grand Canyon National Park, the second-ranked park in the study.

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Vintage movie posters surround Paul Frame, founder and curator of an atomic memorabilia museum at Tennessee's Oak Ridge Associated Universities. (SHNS photo by Saul Young / Knoxville News-Sentinel) (RS)

Artifiacts from Atomic Age on display at national lab

Frank Munger The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 3:38pm

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Radium-powered golf balls. Fishing lures that glow in the dark. Atomic potions that add pep to your step and cure all that ails you.

Who knew radiation could be so much fun?

Welcome to what may be the world's finest collection of nuclear paraphernalia, atomic doodads and just about anything having to do with the history of radiation and radioactivity.

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Security guard allegedly found asleep at nuclear facility

Frank Munger The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 3:16pm

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- A government security contractor is investigating allegations that a security officer slept on the job at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the nation's most sensitive nuclear research sites.

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Jan. 12, 2012 -- A 1977 photograph of James Earl Ray, center, that will be auctioned Jan. 28, 2012. The photo is from the archive of Jack Kershaw, an attorney who represented Ray. Kershaw is standing at right. (SHNS photo courtesy Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals) Black-and-white photo.

Auction of James Earl Ray items blasted for poor timing

Mike Blackerby The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 4:08pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The mere mention of James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., still stirs a whirlwind of emotions in Sheryl Rollins, president of the Knoxville chapter of the NAACP.

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'Glee' producers switch gears for 'Horror Story'

Terry Morrow The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 12:18pm

In "American Horror Story" (debuting 11 p.m. Wednesday, FX), a dysfunctional family finds life unraveling even faster when it unwittingly moves into a haunted house.

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Congressman resuscitates 'flat-lined' man in airport

Micahel Collins The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 2:13pm

U.S. Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee may be known primarily as a congressman these days, but for a few minutes this week, he was once again Phil Roe, medical doctor -- and may have saved a man's life in the process.

An obstetrician/gynecologist before becoming a GOP congressman, helped resuscitate an unidentified man who collapsed early Tuesday morning at the airport in Charlotte, N.C.

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County bans sex offenders from public libraries

Mike Donila The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 2:53pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Knox County, Tenn., mayor has banned sex offenders from county libraries, and, as critics call the act potentially unconstitutional, he says he doesn't care what anyone thinks.

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Unscrupulous pain clincis give good doctors a bad rap

Carly Harrington The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 3:41pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- For years, pain clinics that knowingly overprescribe highly addictive painkillers were allowed to operate in Florida, attracting addicts and drug dealers alike, lawmakers, police and pain management specialists say.

But since October, when the Sunshine State began cracking down on such pill mills, clinic operators have crossed the border into other Southeastern states. In East Tennessee, storefront pain clinics have increasingly popped up because of lax state laws and a high demand for painkillers, said state Rep. Bob Ramsey.

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In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, a box of satirical breath mints poking fun at President Obama is seen at the office of University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor of Communication Margie Nichols in Knoxville, Tenn. The mints were pulled from the shelves at the University of Tennessee bookstore after local legislator Joe Armstrong told store officials he was offended by the mints. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Saul Young)

Mints poking fun at Obama pulled from university bookstore

Megan Boehnke The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 2:46pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Breath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks.

UT officials pulled the mints poking fun at Obama from store shelves after state Rep. Joe Armstrong, a Democrat, visited the bookstore and told the director he found the satirical mints offensive.

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