Former monk Ray Cockrum from Knoxville won just over €191 million in the Tennessee Lottery - and most of it will be going to charity.

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Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in Detroit, 40 years after it was stolen.

Andrew Bree didn’t know much about Knoxville, Tennessee before he arrived over a decade ago at the prestigious university around which the town is built.

Family life may not have evolved without women sidling up to sugar daddies early in human history, a study suggests.

A man who hacked into Sarah Palin’s email during the 2008 US presidential campaign was sentenced today to a year and a day, with the judge recommending a halfway house instead of prison.

A FORMER college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s email account fears some jurors in heavily Republican East Tennessee could be dazzled when the conservative star testifies.

DESMOND Hatchet has 21 children, ranging in age from newborn to 11.

Award-winning entertainer, businesswoman and education advocate Dolly Parton has a new title.

Frustrated that his 14-year-old younger brother has more success with girls, Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) joins forces with buddy Lance (Clark Duke) to drive the 500 miles separating Chicago from Knoxville, home to his internet fantasy, Ms Tasty (Katrina Bowden).

ANDREW BREE came close to joining the world’s elite 200m breaststroke swimmers when failing by just 0.19 of a second to make the final despite knocking 0.75 seconds off the new national record he set in the heats.

One person has been killed and eight others wounded after a gunman entered a church in Tennessee and opened fire with a shotgun, US police said today.

Residents across the US south and midwest were hopeful that the weekend would bring some relief from brutal temperatures that have killed 37 people and set records for power demand.

Seven months after disappearing from her owner’s garden in the western US state of Colorado, a terrier named Daisy turned up in Knoxville, Tennessee - 1,300 miles away.

MARK CHRISTIE (Westmeath) claimed his first national senior title with victory at the inter-counties cross-country championships at St Augustine’s College, Dungarvan, yesterday.

LIMERICK man Liam Reale added his name to the growing list of qualifiers for the European championships when he finished second in the elite men’s 1,500m race at last weekend’s Boston High Performance meeting.

A student shot and killed an assistant principal and seriously wounded two other administrators at a high school in the US yesterday.

A student shot and killed an assistant principal and seriously wounded two other administrators at a high school in the US today.

MATTHEW Teffeteller might seem an ideal candidate.

Police in Tennessee are checking leads that family members may be hiding a convicted thief and his wife, who authorities said gunned down a guard to help her husband escape outside a court.

Law enforcement agents raided an illegal cockfight and arrested 144 people attending what one official said may have been one of the largest such gatherings in the US.