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The long Talladega con: How one man talked his way onto NASCAR's fastest track
Talladega is 2.66 miles of asphalt foolishness. The banked turns were designed at 33-degree angles, meaning, when you're ...
The long Talladega con: How L.W. Wright talked his way onto NASCAR's fastest track
He may be the greatest sports imposter ever. Could he pull off racing around one of the sport's great tracks? Here is his ...
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A Rural Calling: Liv Cook
On a Thursday afternoon in early April, two young women addressed the school board in East Tennessee’s rural McMinn County. Both were raised in families ...
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The long Talladega con: How one man talked his way onto NASCAR's fastest track
The World's Fair was in Knoxville, where fairgoers could use ... He was confronted by the Ku Klux Klan. He raced without sponsors and under constant death threats. Somehow L.W. Wright felt a ...
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Knoxville schools locked down after threat reported to police
BREAKING NEWS JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM. NOW FROM KNOXVILLE SCHOOLS. ALL STUDENTS HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AFTER A POSSIBLE THREAT FORCED THE DISTRICT INTO A LOCKDOWN THIS AFTERNOON. THE SUPERINTENDENT ...
US visit by far-right Israeli minister draws tense protests and ‘big fissures’ in Jewish community
Far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was speaking to a small crowd at a Manhattan steakhouse Thursday afternoon when a Brooklyn man, who had been hiding in a ...
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Virginia Kaufman Carty
Virginia Kaufman Carty, age 82, of Knoxville Tennessee passed away on April 27, 2025. Virginia, or Ginny to friends and family, was a loving wife to John (Bill) Carty and mother to her four ...