East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers named Shontel Denise Mitchell wanted on a felony check-fraud warrant. Anonymous tips that lead to an arrest may qualify for up to $2,000.

A Lenoir City man was arrested after Loudon County deputies investigated social-media posts that threatened Eaton Elementary School.

A Sevier County judge dismissed the county criminal charge against a Knoxville police officer arrested in December. The officer’s administrative review is ongoing.

A 3-year-old was found alone and unclothed in a North Knoxville apartment parking lot; court records show his father has been charged with child endangerment and child abuse.

A 46‑year‑old Sneedville man died after an apparent self‑inflicted gunshot while in the back of a Hancock County patrol vehicle, the TBI says. Agents are investigating at the DA's request.

A bicyclist suffered life‑threatening injuries after being struck by an SUV on North Cherry Street near I‑40 late Saturday. Police closed the road overnight while investigators worked the scene.

A 25-year-old East Tennessee woman was arrested in Greene County, Tenn., after a parental abduction on Old Mars Hill Highway; the one-year-old was recovered safe and uninjured.

A 29-year-old Knoxville woman was arrested after an accidental porch shooting that killed a man. Police say alcohol, marijuana and two guns were involved.

A Knoxville man was arrested in Bean Station and now faces about 50 child‑sex charges, including continuous sexual abuse and dozens of statutory‑rape counts.

A Knox County judge has referred the case of a former postal worker accused of stealing nearly $1M in checks to a grand jury after detectives recovered stacks of undelivered checks.

A 27-year-old Alcoa man is in custody after an early-morning Five Points shooting left a Knoxville man wounded. KPD says charges are pending as detectives investigate.

Knoxville police say a car drove past new bollards and across the pedestrian-only Gay Street Bridge early Saturday, damaging landscaping before the driver fled on foot.

Two American alligators and a false water cobra were seized in a multistate poaching probe that began with a December traffic stop and produced scores of charges in Tennessee and Kentucky.