Merriam-Webster is giving online gamers something to "w00t" about. The hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph has topped all other terms in the dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that
A well-known animal-rights group based in Norfolk says its undercover investigation has documented animal cruelty at a pig-breeding farm that supplies pork-processing giant Smithfield Foods. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking charges against Murphy Family Ventures, which
Not all giving in Virginia's most expensive legislative election season was done in cash, nor was it done with a partisan edge in mind. An analysis of campaign finance reports shows that it was business as usual for hundreds of
The city of Knoxville is getting nearly $70 million in residential and public improvements for its south waterfront redevelopment project along the Tennessee River. The project announced Tuesday includes a 5-acre riverfront park, an 1,800-foot riverwalk, new roads and intersections
The Wilson County School Board is expected to vote Tuesday night whether to accept a settlement in the case of parents who have sued an elementary school there, saying it promoted Christianity. According to court papers, a group called the
Convicted killer Mary Winkler met another challenge Tuesday in efforts to visit her three young daughters while fighting their paternal grandparents for custody of them. The grandparents asked the state Supreme Court to consider their appeal of the visits granted
Country singer Travis Tritt has sued his record label, Category 5 Records, and its president, alleging breach of contract and fraud. Tritt, who released his latest album, "The Storm," this year on the new independent label, seeks $10 million in
President Bush granted pardons Tuesday to carjackers, drug dealers, a liquor-law violator and an election-laws violator but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide who was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of
400,000 people each year have knee replacement surgery. There is a hi-tech procedure that uses robotics to create smaller incisions, improve pain and get patients back on their feet in less time than traditional knee surgery.
A DUI stop led Metro Police to a drunk, convicted sex offender traveling with five young boys in his car. | | Police said Michael Ingram, 39, was driving along Stewarts Ferry Pike and Interstate 40 Friday night when they
The Tennessee state trooper hailed a hero for pulling a teenager from a burning vehicle over the weekend spoke with News 2 on Tuesday. | | Trooper Michael Marvin just happened to be two miles away from the crash that
The search continued Tuesday for 69-year-old Marcy Smith of Murfreesboro. | | She disappeared after leaving her Village Green Circle home to run errands last Thursday afternoon. Smith is a diabetic and needs medical treatment. | | Smith's Lincoln Navigator
The clock is winding down for the hundreds of residents at the McKendree Village Nursing Home in Hermitage. | | Earlier this month, Medicare and Medicaid funding was cut after officials with the state health department uncovered a range of
A lawsuit surrounding Lakeview Elementary School in Wilson County could be settled Tuesday. | | The trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday morning but delayed in hopes of agreement. A vote by school board members could settle the lawsuit out
Senior citizens in part of Westchester may soon have a new way to cut their rising taxes, but it's a plan that raising some eyebrows and even dropping some jaws. How does laboring away for some tax credit sound?
The latest youth trend is quite a disturbing one, according to a new report: Teens increasingly putting down the marijuana and other illicit drugs, and replacing them with prescription drugs to get their high. Knowledge of what the drugs are
A retired Staten Island assistant principal is facing serious allegations after being accused of receiving massages from a 12-year-old female student in his office prior to his retirement, then trying to pay the child's mother off to keep quiet.
A key witness to a deadly confrontation was back on the stand Tuesday. The young man was defending his father who is accused of killing Daniel Cicciaro Jr. during what was described as a racially charged incident. Emotions ran high
