Two years after a financial crisis threatened to close its doors, Virginia Intermont College has raised nearly $12 million and won back unqualified accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

I got to hang around for opening day of Kidsfest at Dollywood. And when I say, hang around, I mean that literally!

Such a pity that the death of Farrah Fawcett was reduced to a pinhole footnote in the news.  Many of you read my rave about her recent television special wherein she chronicled her struggle with the cancer that eventually won out. 

After starting her career as a living breathing Barbie doll, moving toward legitimate acting credits, then reemerging in Playboy and later, in a cheesy reality show on TV Land called Chasing Farrah, the final word is this:

For price and selection, I always get the best deals when I wait until now to plant annuals.

Pestilence and plague: it’s all in good fun.

An increasingly vocal group of Americans seems to feel freedom is in peril, not because of an ominous threat from an overseas power, but because of the powers-that-be in the nation’s Capital.

WJHL Viewer Ed Horton offers his perspective on the damage to his beloved former residence.

Finally, something Obama has done that I can get behind!

When her grandson was diagnosed with kidney cancer, Wilma Powers made a deal with God.  If he helped four-year-old Dalton survive, she would donate her time to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The modern-day NASCAR world has the feel of a Charles Dickens novel.

Watch Mayor Dennis Phillips and Northeast State President Bill Locke present Kingsport’s higher education story to Harvard today at 2 pm click here.

Johnson City Police Dept:  Most Wanted June 29, 2009

Now they tell me.