By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com If you live in North Knoxville and drive Broadway you’ll likely be familiar with Penny Pawn at 4821 North Broadway but you may not know that the popular shop has been there since 1985. Founded by Mildred Mason and now owned by...

By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Knoxville and Knox County have produced some national heroes and personalities known around the nation; people who are from here or lived here before becoming famous. Folks like Dr. Bill Bass, founder of The Body Farm and noted...

  By Steve Williams Through a lifetime of coaching, Bill Duncan knows something that’s hard to beat. “Everybody talks about winning,” said Duncan, Heritage High’s veteran boys basketball coach. “It’s not about winning. It’s about the will to win.” Duncan said his...

  By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The Gibbs and Hardin Valley communities had reason to celebrate Friday as they each took one step closer to the construction of their new middle schools. As groundbreaking was about to take place Friday morning at the site...

  By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com The former Knoxville Utilities Board Building on Gay Street, empty for about 16 years, may get a new owner and tenant thanks to action by the Knox County Commission and the Knoxville City Council Tuesday. The Tombras Group,...

By Ray Hill Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio had just lost his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination at the Philadelphia convention in 1948.  Worse still, Taft had lost to his bitter rival, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.  The two men didn’t...

By Ken Lay Hardin Valley Academy’s boys basketball team saw its season come to an abrupt end Thursday night. The fourth-seeded Hawks dropped a 77-58 decision to Heritage in the District 4-AAAA Quarterfinals at West High School. It was a tough loss for Hardin Valley in...

By Steve Williams In a way, when the University of Georgia women’s basketball team plays the Tennessee Lady Vols in Knoxville this coming Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Butler will have come full circle. Butler, a product of Webb School in Knoxville, is the starting...