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3 days ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville's Community Development Corporation's, or KCDC, largest affordable housing property is undergoing major upgrades, with phase two starting on Wednesday. The original Western Heights property was built more than 80 years ago. "It's just like stuck in time. It's a few miles from downtown.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Jessica Orwig |Lauren Davis |Henry Blodget
My husband and I welcomed our second daughter in November 2012 and started house-hunting for a bigger space shortly after. Our townhouse in the DC suburbs was great for three, but would become cramped with our growing family. However, even with two full-time incomes coming in from me and my husband, we couldn't find a house in the DC area within our budget of $430,000 that didn't need major repairs. One house we toured looked like the kitchen had been engulfed in flames and left untouched.
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4 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Lauren Davis
My husband and I both worked full-time jobs, but couldn't afford to buy a home near DC for $430,000. We moved away in the early 2010s to Calvert County, Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay. While I miss some aspects of living near DC, I love our home and our life here. My husband and I welcomed our second daughter in November 2012 and started house-hunting for a bigger space shortly after. Our townhouse in the DC suburbs was great for three, but would become cramped with our growing family.
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4 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Lauren Davis
4 hours agoA total of 15 separate thefts, most in Kingstowne and Fair Oaks, was alleged by police. In terms of targeting a niche item, perhaps few crimes hold a candle to the rash of retail thefts that broke out this year in Fairfax County, according to the county police. The stolen items were candles, the …
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4 days ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville Knox County Community Action Committee program needs more volunteers this summer for its Mobile Meals program, which provides free lunch to homebound seniors. To make sure everyone is fed this summer, the nonprofit is calling on more volunteers to pitch in. Every Friday, the Littlejohn family loads up their car to make meal deliveries and if Mobile Meals needs them another day, they try to answer the call.
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5 days ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — Now that the weather is warming up, more people are hitting the trails. Uneven terrain can lead to trips, slips and falls, but Rural Metro Fire in Knox County is training crews to help rescue people from mountainous areas. Rural Metro firefighters are training for when an injured hiker call comes in. Over the last year, the department has had around six, with two of them happening in May. One was on House Mountain and another was on a trail off of East Raccoon Valley Road.
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1 week ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
TELLICO PLAINS, Tenn. — A popular tourist spot in Tellico Plains is open once again after being closed for nearly two years. Bald River Falls was closed late summer 2023 to effectively replace the deteriorated bridge and make improvements to the site. Shortly before work began on the bridge, major flooding hit the Tellico Plains area and washed out multiple roads, including main routes like Tellico River Road.
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1 week ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives cleared a budget bill that could cut roughly $700 billion from Medicaid in the coming years. And that is concerning for some East Tennesseans who rely on Medicaid, or TennCare, in the state. Jerri Ingram is a full-time mom caring for her 30-year-old son who has cerebral palsy. She also receives help from a nurse. She was bumped down from 44 hours of skilled care a week to 30 skilled and 10 unskilled.
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1 week ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
KINGSTON, Tenn. — The transformation of an old coal plant into a new solar, gas and battery mega-plex is underway in Kingston. It will take the place of the Kingston Fossil Plant, which just marked 70 years in operation. The Tennessee Valley Authority gave WBIR an updated tour to see the progress of its new gas plant in Kingston. The gas plant is being built near the current fossil plant site.
Work is underway on building the new plant.
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1 week ago | 
wbir.com | Lauren Davis
MCMINN COUNTY, Tenn — Eric Johnson has been an EMS worker for more than 37 years. He's always helped others in times of need, and now the McMinn County community is asking for others to do the same. "Last Monday, he started having chest pain, vomited, called EMS, he was showing a major cardiac event on the EKG, took him to Parkwest up in Knoxville," said Tyler Johnson, his son.
Eric had a serious heart attack, with several cardiac arrests to follow.
