Knox County Board of Education Chair Betsy Henderson recently penned a Knoxville News Sentinel guest column, “We can support both public schools and school choice,” in which she opined that supporting public schools is compatible with supporting school vouchers. Nope. Henderson uses the nauseating euphemism for vouchers: school choice. She wrote, “[W]e need to consider the […]
For the past 10 years, as each May gives way to June, Jennifer Byrum has celebrated her sobriety. Each year is a reminder of the life she left behind and the life she has now. This past year has been the most difficult as she’s had to wade through shock and grief after her father […]
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Fourteen Knox County schools will have new principals in the coming school year, and all of them are familiar faces within the district. The new positions go into effect in July before Knox County Schools students return to class Aug. 8 for what’s expected to be another busy school year. This year, a new school opens within […]
Amanda Knox has told Italian TV that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court’s decision to find her guilty of slander in light of a European court ruling that police who took her confession had violated her human rights. “I will fight for the truth,” Ms Knox told Sky TG24 in her first public […]
Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of murder. Reader discretion is advised. Patrick Lumumba was a local Congolese bar owner in Italy’s Perugia, and the employer of Amanda Knox at the time of her roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder. According to AP News, Knox worked part-time in Lumumba’s bar in the university town. Knox lived with Kercher, […]
Weather officials are investigating possible tornadoes that struck parts of Knox and Muskingum counties. The Muskingum County EMA Director Jeff Jadwin told WHIZ news that several people were hospitalized when a possible tornado struck the Village of Frazeysburg, located about an hour east of Columbus. The storms capped a night of watches and warnings across […]
Amanda Knox, the American who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her British roommate while studying abroad in Italy in 2007, was reconvicted in an Italian court Wednesday on slander charges stemming from the 17-year-old case. Here’s what you need to know about the latest conviction against Knox, now 36, and what it means for her. […]
Amanda Knox was reconvicted by an Italian court of slander in the final case related to the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. Knox, 36, originally was convicted in 2009 of slander for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Kercher. An appellate court in Florence, Italy, upheld that conviction on Wednesday, June 5, nearly two […]
STORY: :: June 5, 2024 An Italian court found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander on Wednesday and handed her a three-year jail sentence in a case related to the murder of her British flatmate in 2007. The sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox spent in jail […]
An Italian court on Wednesday re-convicted Amanda Knox of slander, upholding the only conviction still standing in association with the brutal murder of her roommate in 2007. The Florence court sentenced Knox to three years for slandering Patrick Lumumba, a Congolese bar owner, in a written statement following the murder of Meredith Kercher. Knox is […]
An Italian court has re-convicted Amanda Knox of slander, even after she was exonerated over the brutal 2007 murder of her British flatmate while the two were exchange students in Italy. The court in Florence found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part-time, of […]