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This week’s free MP3 download comes via the Drive-By Truckers. The modern Southern rock band will appear at Rhythm and Roots on Sept. 18. […]

Stand-up comedy and four-letter words fit like stink on a hog. Right? Well, not for Tim Hawkins. […]

Scot Bruce is not Elvis – and doesn’t pretend to be – but he has the King’s music flat nailed, along with an energy and vitality that harks back to Presley’s earliest days. […]

Kenyan Tony Were didn’t seem to have a chance in life. […]

Find an event in the region this weekend! […]

If you’re looking for a party on Labor Day weekend, you’re in luck across the Mountain Empire. Festivals, celebrations and concerts are getting under way from Natural Tunnel State Park to the hills of Hillsville. […]

ELECTRICITY CALENDAR NIGHTLIFE  ACOUSTIC COFFEEHOUSE: Johnson City, 415 W. Walnut St. Sept. 3, 8 p.m., Mat Burke and Neil Cribbs; Sept. 4, 8 p.m., The Harmed Brothers and Alder Street All Stars; Sept. 5, 8 p.m., The Twilight Broadcasters. (423) 434-9872.  […]

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Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Light winds. […]

Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds. […]

Partly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. […]

Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 mph or less. […]

Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 mph or less. […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. - The Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon cutting for Gibson Mill Road on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at 10 a.m. The ribbon cutting will be held near the intersection of Gibson Mill Road and Stone Drive at the newly constructed roundabout. Please park in surrounding areas by the nearby medical office buildings. The newly […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – The Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Programs and CenturyLink are proud to announce Doris Hart Bush as the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Leadership Award. The award was presented recently at a Kingsport Chamber’s After Hours event sponsored by WorkSpace Interiors and SageBrush Steakhouse. "We are very proud and ho […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. - The Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to award its 2010 Santa Train Scholarship to Rachael D. Brown, a 2010 graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kingsport. The four-year scholarship is worth $5,000. Brown was active throughout her high school career being a member of various student organizations and clubs. They include: Anime […]

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KINGSPORT, Tenn. – The Kingsport, Bristol & Johnson City/Jonesborough/Washington County Chambers of Commerce, The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Business Roundtable announced today the event A Conversation About Civility in Governance will be postponed until further notice. The event was sche […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – The Kingsport, Bristol & Johnson City/Jonesborough/Washington County Chambers of Commerce, The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Business Roundtable will host A Conversation About Civility in Governance on Thursday, August 12 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the MeadowView Marriott Conf […]

The recent August race week brought an estimated 625,000 motorists in and around Bristol and Bristol Motor Speedway – less than last summer’s record count of 700,000 vehicles, city Traffic Engineer David Metzger said Thursday. […]

Somebody called about a drunken man driving a green Jeep Wrangler with a “very intoxicated” pregnant lady in the passenger seat. […]

Brown died on scene. His passenger, Diana Reynolds, 51, was taken to Bristol Regional Medical Center in serious condition. Late Thursday, the hospital listed her as stable. No one else was injured. […]

In early May Briana Hall had the life of most any high school senior. Her days were full of friends, homework and cheerleading but all that changed on May 11, when her car slide off the road and struck a tree.     […]

ETSU, UVA-Wise, and Tusculum do not run background checks on all new hires.  […]

Johnson City Commissioners agreed to raise Solid Waste Collection fees by $1.00 per month or $3.50 per month is you have additional garbage carts. […]

Despite striking a compromise with city leaders about Johnson City's new multi-generational use community center, some seniors are still not happy. In fact, the Save Our Center group is again pushing for a stand-alone senior center. […]

A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and initially said he was a sheriff before going on to ask for towels, hot chocolate and a hug has been arrested for trespassing. (Sept. 2) […]

The White House says no one was killed in an explosion on a petroleum platform in the Gulf of Mexico. He also says it was not in as deep of water as the BP well. (Sept. 2) […]

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana is gearing up to make a biographical film about his life, and announces the date he will wed his fiance, Cindy Blackman. (Sept 2) […]

Natalie Portman needed time to prepare for her latest role in 'Black Swan.' The actress talks about her physical training regimen during the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival. (Sept. 2) […]

Hours before Hurricane Earl is expected to make landfall on the shores of North Carolina's Outer Banks, residents are being told to evacuate the area. The AP's Mark Carlson reports from Nags Head, North Carolina. (Sept. 2) […]

An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. (Sept. 2) […]

A quick look at the most notable jumps and drops on this week's Billboard 200 albums and Hot 100 singles charts. […]

Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" will likely remain in the top five of the Billboard 200 next week. […]

Atlantic Records and ESPN will team to feature the label's artists in promotions surrounding the 2010 college football season. […]

Here are five of the new season's music events that will garner ratings and buzz for the participants. […]

On Wednesday, HP introduced a new series of laptops and desktops with Beats Audio technology that aim to give computer buyers a level of sound quality that has been missing from digital music. […]

A look at what made waves on the Web on Wed. (Sept. 1). […]

The Scottish post-rock band drops a new concert movie and a fresh live album on the same day. Guitarist and sometime-singer Stuart Brathwaite talks about the intense projects and Mogwai's connection to comics legends Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. […]

The innovative musician's upcoming record, created with fellow composers Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, hits stores in November. […]

Can your ears handle a blistering live version of one of Guitar Hero's most notorious tracks? Brace yourself for a new recording of DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames." […]

The raucous din of blaring car alarms, shattering glass and videogame sound effects layered atop heavy dubstep wasn’t enough for DJ-producer Rusko. On his debut full-length album, O.M.G.!, he’s invited a who’s who of guest artists. […]

With its stunning new album Transit Transit, the Los Angeles band delivers a powerful mix of music, machines and introspective lyrics about life during the technocultural revolution. It's the perfect soundtrack for "the golden age of feeling nothing." […]

With Mark David Chapman up for parole, we look back at the ways his killing of the Beatles songwriter lives on in comics, movies and music. […]

As we pointed out last week, the Food and Drug Administration -- the agency responsible for ensuring the safety of 80 percent of the nation's food supply -- rarely inspects farms, and does so "almost exclusively in periods of crisis," according to one report.The latest crisis -- a salmonella outbreak that caused more than a half-billion eggs t […]

DETROIT — For years, Americans shopping for cars were treated to all sorts of deals and incentives, especially at the end of summer. Think Cash for Clunkers, which paid up to $4,500, or promotions that offered employee discounts to everyone.Those days are over.Deals are getting scarcer because automakers, newly lean and profitable, are holding the line on th […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks jumped Wednesday after surprisingly strong growth in U.S. and Chinese manufacturing allayed some of the worries that had been building over the global economy in recent weeks.The new reports snapped a string of disappointing economic data that sent stocks slumping in August. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the benchmark most […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. - The Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon cutting for Gibson Mill Road on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at 10 a.m. The ribbon cutting will be held near the intersection of Gibson Mill Road and Stone Drive at the newly constructed roundabout. Please park in surrounding areas by the nearby medical office buildings. The newly […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Deborah Dower was met at the door Monday morning with a smile and a greeting."Oh, you're the boss's wife," the smiling man said."No, I'm the boss," Dower said, shrugging off the mistake with a smile of her own.After all, her customer has been there from the beginning in March when Dower opened her busin […]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – The Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Programs and CenturyLink are proud to announce Doris Hart Bush as the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Leadership Award. The award was presented recently at a Kingsport Chamber's After Hours event sponsored by WorkSpace Interiors and SageBrush Steakhouse. "We are very pr […]