Everyone Gets a Trophy. By Joe Rector. I’m old school when it comes to schools and education and make no apologies for being so. Spending 30 years in the classroom as a teacher ...

Seek counsel as well; godly voices in our lives often serve as instruments of God’s direction. In the days ahead, whether for our families, our churches, our nation, or our souls, we must ask ...

If you find yourself sitting in a courtroom, you might hear a lawyer stand up and say, “Your Honor, we request the rule of sequestration.” That phrase probably doesn’t mean much to most people, but it ...

Yes, Iran has been conducting a shadow war against the US since 1979. From the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1979 to the drone attack that killed three servicemen in Jordan in 2023, Iran ...

Mears rolled into town in the spring of 1962, a few months past his 35th birthday, fresh off a national championship a year earlier at Wittenberg (Ohio) College. He brought a sackful of gimmicks and a ...

This is Israel’s war. It is not our war. Netanyahu and Israel First neocons led us into a very unnecessary war in Iraq that cost the lives of so many young Americans, and led to the blinding and ...

Charles Fondren, a native of Memphis, was a Deaf Prep All-American running back for TSD in the fall of 1984 and also received ...

Grayson Subaru ‘Shares the Love’ with Ijams Nature Center. By Jamie Schnell. Schnellj@knoxfocus.com. Thursday’s Subaru Share ...

“It is my duty to honor them and my grandmother, Johnnie Mae McKamey (married last name Hardin), who was an heir of most of ...

We drive over them every day, seldom really thinking about crossing a stream, river, or lake. We don’t really notice bridges until one of them is being rebuilt or repaired and we have to find another ...

The future of East Knoxville’s Burlington neighborhood, once a thriving commercial center near the junction of Martin Luther King Jr. and Magnolia Avenue, is beginning to take shape. A survey of local ...

Throughout Knox County there are places that we probably know the names of but may not know why. This week The Focus takes a look at the communities and neighborhoods and how or why they got their ...