Gig City Chattanooga Leads The Way As US Leaves High-speed Internet To The Free Market
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Four years ago, Chattanooga, Tennessee was just another southern city with crumbling factories and an uncertain future. Now, it is an American success story. Businesses like Volkswagen and Amazon have moved in, bringing jobs and investment. Chattanooga is America's first 'Gig City', where everyone has access to internet speeds of one gigabyte per second - 100 times faster than ...
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Knoxville Museum Of Art Closes Its Doors For Renovations
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s last open day until November 29. Crews will be working on renovations inside the museum, giving it a new look, new design, new floors, and new ...
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Boomsday 2013 Attracts 400000 To Downtown Knoxville
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(WBIR - Downtown Knoxville) More than 400,000 people took to the streets of downtown Knoxville Sunday for Boomsday and the event's triumphant return to the Henley Bridge. East Tennesseeans were treated to a half-hour long show where they got see fireworks burn bright above the Tennessee River. For the last two years, organizers had shot the fireworks from other locations on the Tennessee ...
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WWII Vets Hope Lake In Italy Yields GIs Remains
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Somewhere on the bottom of Italy's largest lake lie the remains of two dozen American soldiers who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in 1945 in the waning days of the fighting in Europe during World War II. A volunteer group's discovery of what could be the wreckage 900 feet down in Lake Garda has given aging veterans hope that, after nearly seven decades, the remains of their ...
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Nashville Dominicans Opening Center In Scotland
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ROME, August 21, 2013 (Zenit.org) - At the invitation of Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen, four members of the Nashville, Tennessee-based Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia are opening a center in Scotland.Sister Anna Christi, Sister Imelda Ann, Sister Nicholas Marie and Sister Christiana will be living in Greyfriars Convent in Elgin. The convent was built in the late 15th century.In a letter to a ...
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Knoxville Police Investigating Stabbing At Lounge
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KNOXVILLE -- Police are investigating a stabbing incident Sunday morning that left one man wounded at an East Knoxville establishment, authorities ...
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NFL Tennessee 38 New York Jets 13
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Jake Locker connected for three touchdown passes before leaving with an injury Sunday in the Tennessee Titans' 38-13 win over the New York Jets. Locker made good on 18-for-24 passes for 149 yards in the triumph, but was knocked out the game after taking a hard hit from New York's Muhammad Wilkerson early in the third quarter. The Tennessee signal-caller was taken off the field on a ...
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UCF Rallies To Pull Off Wild 24-17 Win At Memphis
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UCF had gone almost the entire game without generating the type of plays it needed to win on Saturday night. On the cusp of a potential season-deflating setback at the Liberty Bowl, however, the Knights somehow found the answers to pull out an improbable 24-17 win ...
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