Last year, CAK ended Alcoa's season and its seven year reign as state champion.

The Warriors took down Alcoa for the first time ever in the final game of the regular season then repeated the performance in the quarterfinals of the playoffs.

On Thursday night, the Tornadoes took back their district title and home-field in the 3A playoffs. Knowing that CAK can put up points in a hurry, Alcoa came into the game planning on going for two on each of its touchdowns.

A small private school in West Knoxville celebrated its expansion on Monday.
 
Paideia Academy cut the ribbon on a new building that houses two new classrooms.

The school offers a classically-based Christian education with a unique approach.  Students meet at the school on three days a week, and receive at-home instruction on the other two.

The new classrooms will allow the school to continue its track of adding one new grade each year and to have a graduating class in 2015.

Two Knoxville high school graduates earned the highest scores in the state on their advanced placement exams.

Kelli Reese of West High School and Peter Nagy of Farragut High School received the College Board State AP Scholar Award for their performance.

Just 108 students nationwide received the AP Scholar Award this year, out of the more than 2 million students who took the exams.

Reese now attends the University of Alabama. Nagy is studying at Duke University.