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"The Chocolate Cat Caper" by JoAnna Carl, 2002, Signet, $6.99, softbound, 234 pages: When Lee McKinney moved back to the Great Lakes region to stay with her Aunt Nettie after Lee’s divorce, she had no idea she’d be wrapped up in a murder mystery. It begins when TenHuis Chocolade, Aunt ... […]

CLASSES A LIKELY YARN: Abingdon, 213 Pecan St., Various classes in August. Hours: Monday from noon to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and closed Sundays. For more information, call (276) 628-2143 or www.alikelyyarn.com. […]

"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender, 2010, Doubleday, $25.95/$30 Canada, 304 pages: The recipe is the original, in her handwriting. You’ve figured out that a "handful" equals one cup, and a "pinch" is a quarter teaspoon. You’ve measured and spooned and sifted faithfully. […]

What do Muhammad Ali, Debbie Reynolds, George Jones and former Virginia Governor George Allen have in common? They’ve all eaten at The Roanoker Restaurant, an appetizing star attraction in the Star City of the South: Roanoke, Va. […]

Frequently, I am requested to write on certain subjects for this column. Usually, I am happy to oblige if enough information and suitable photo or two can be found. Of course, my subjects are often chosen months ahead, and this can delay the granting of a request. It may surprise ... […]

"In Her Sister’s Shadow," James Campbell (JaMar Publishing, 2010, $12.95) For years, James Campbell has toured the local festival circuit, selling a book called "Luther’s Mule." […]

Thousands of visitors and hundreds of vendors turned out. […]

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Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Light winds. […]

Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Light winds. […]

Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. Light winds. […]

Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Light winds. […]

Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. Light winds. […]

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 […]

Economic analysts in Tennessee and Virginia suggest the labor environment in both states is showing slight improvement in some ways, but plenty of ups and downs are ahead to make Labor Day 2011 better than this year’s version. […]

When it snows, Principal Billy Miller must call the homes of 1,100 students who attend Holston Elementary and Holston Middle schools, to let their parents know whether classes have been canceled or delayed. […]

Seeking his 15th term, Boucher is being challenged by Morgan Griffith, a Salem Republican and majority leader in Virginia’s House of Delgates, in the Nov. 2 election for Boucher’s 9th District seat. Also on the ballot is independent candidate Jeremiah Heaton, a Washington County small businessman. […]

Having your teenage child solicited to pose for pornography is something no parent hopes for, and with technology so accessible and millions of people on Facebook, such pornography sites are finding more ways to prey on the young. […]

Aug. 25 seemed an ordinary day for Sauls, a Bristol native and nurse of 15 years. She had a couple of days off, because Dr. Steven Hanor, whom she normally worked with at his Bristol practice, was out of town doing mission work. So she agreed to pick up a ... […]

An Oakview Avenue woman called at 2 a.m. to say “someone woke her up knocking on the door.” She asked who it was and “the response was, ‘a black dude.’ ” She said “they have knocked twice more since then.”   […]

On Aug. 30, an armed intruder walked into Sullivan Central High School, threatening to harm the students and staff. But thanks to a school resource officer, who was at the right place at the right time, what could have been potentially devastating ended without injury to students or school personnel. […]

Officials say at nearly 40 people have died in Guatemalan mudslides. The landslides also buried two buses on a highway. (Sept. 5) […]

Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is aboard a ship. The AP's John Mone reports on the effort to raise the equipment to the surface. (Sept. 5) […]

Sixty-nine Mexican cowboys set the new Guinness World record for the greatest number of people simultaneously lassoing on Sunday. The group twirled their ropes for nearly three minutes. (Sept. 5) […]

JetBlue Airways says there will be no second exits for famed flight attendant Steven Slater. He's out of a job. (Sept. 5) […]

Highlights of this day in history: A massacre at the Munich Olympics; President Gerald Ford escapes the first of two assassination attempts, weeks apart; Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' published; Missionary nun Mother Teresa dies. (Sept. 5) […]

The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new 11-foot wide fault line in the earth's surface, according to geologists. (September 5) […]

Ending weeks of speculation, Kara DioGuardi and Fox announced late Friday that she would be departing as a judge on "American Idol" after two seasons. […]

The metal veterans' "The Final Frontier" spends a second week at No. 1 in Europe, while Shakira's single "Waka Waka" makes it six weeks at the top. […]

Melvin Benn confirms that a potential £20,000 ($31,000) fine will be deducted from Guns N' Roses' festival fee. […]

A look at what's making waves on the Web on Thurs. (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. […]

A modern take on Gustav Holst's orchestral suite uses theremins, accordions and other unusual instruments to make a musical statement. Who's listening? For starters, the director of Hayden Planetarium. […]

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." […]

NEW YORK — How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money. Demand is rising for kitchen and bath gadgets that squeeze out that last blob of toothpaste and help get the suds out of tiny slivers of soap. Marketers of these gizmos tout how the pennies they save by reducing waste can add up. Retailers are stocki […]

KINGSPORT — Chad Riner knows what it’s like to be unemployed. In the past two years, this father of two has been laid off twice from two different manufacturing companies. Today, those experiences are helping him relate to the people he works with everyday in his job at the Tennessee Career Center in Kingsport. "When I talk with the people, I know exact […]

A $140,000 fine has been proposed for Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin for an October event that prompted an evacuation of employees. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended the fine and said in a letter to NFS that the October 13 event "resulted in an unexpected increase in the rate of a chemical reaction and an evacuation of employees from the aff […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site. The USDA employees worked next to areas where roughly 7.7 million caged hens laid eggs at the two operations, but agen […]

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 […]

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 […]