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HomeGrown: The Black Lillies

Submitted by Beth Haynes on Tuesday, September 18th, 8:26 pm

From Country Music Television to the Grand Ole Opry, The Black Lillies' Americana sound resonates on radio charts.

"You know when you walk on the Opry stage it's going to be fantastic," said Trisha Gene Brady.

With several Independent Music Awards, their most recent record, "100 Miles of Wreckage" is one of the Top 40 Americana Albums of 2011, pretty remarkable considering the band's only been together four years.

"We've all had our own separate journeys musically and through life and our roads brought us to Knoxville," said Cruz Contreras.

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Vote to bring NBC's Today show to UT!

Submitted by WBIR Web Staff on Tuesday, September 18th, 2:15 pm

NBC's Today show will be on the UT campus on Wednesday, and you could help bring them back later this year!

UT is one of six finalists in "Kathie Lee and Hoda Go Back to College" challenge. The winner will have the show broadcast live from campus in early October.

A Today Show reporter will be doing live segments from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday from the south side of Ayres Hall to introduce UT to viewers and kick off the voting.

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Million dollar Powerball ticket sold in West Knoxville

Submitted by WBIR Web Staff on Thursday, September 13th, 4:26 pm

Someone in East Tennessee is a million dollars richer today.

The Tennessee Lottery says a winning Powerball ticket was sold at the Kroger Fuel Center at 9161 Middlebrook Pike.

The identity of the winner is unknown until they claim their prize, but the store also gets a $5,000 bonus once the prize is claimed.

This Powerball win is the 93rd ticket sold worth $1 million dollars or more and the second such win since Saturday.

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Kitchen worker has great attitude

Submitted by Emily Stroud on Wednesday, September 5th, 4:25 pm

A Knoxville restaurant hired a worker with intellectual disabilities and found out his abilities make him a great employee.

Adrian Pitts demonstrated the last step in the dish washing process, "Put it in and it starts."

He started working at Northshore Brasserie about two years ago. Co-owner Brian Balest hired him to wash dishes.

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HomeGrown: Dee Haslam, RIVR Media CEO & Founder

Submitted by Beth Haynes on Tuesday, September 4th, 10:37 pm

"I feel like I'm the shoe-maker's daughter. You just do what your dad did."

As CEO of RIVR Media, Dee Bagwell Haslam has certainly lived up to the family name. And there are dozens of Emmy-award winning shows on cable to prove it.

"RIVR Media has just a wonderful group of creative, fun people and it just makes waking up everyday and coming to work a great thing to do."

Dee got her first taste of television at a very young age.

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SNL's "The Ladies Man" saunters into Knoxville

Submitted by Erin Donovan on Thursday, August 30th, 5:09 pm

Tim Meadows was a skit staple on Saturday Night Live for years. One of his characters was Leon Phelps, The Ladies Man, and this is where the headline comes from.

It is also the voice that I use A LOT around the newsroom. Even Photographer JJ was nice enough to inform Meadows of this.

If you are not an SNL fan, you may have seen him in some movies and on TV, he has a bunch of reoccurring roles on sitcoms.

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The Lord's Child collecting donations for Isaac victims

Submitted by Mary Scott on Wednesday, August 29th, 9:16 pm

For the next three days, a Sevier County non-profit is collecting water and non-perishable food items for victims of Tropical Storm Isaac.

The Lord's Child will be stationed with a tractor trailer at three area Walmart stores: Sevierville, Turkey Creek, and East Towne. They hope to fill them up to take to Louisiana in the next few days.

One of the organizers, Eric Lambert, has a personal connection to the supplies' destination.

Born and raised in Plaquemines Parish, Lambert still has family there.

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