Jeff Macklin rubs his face as he realizes certain items were in his basement when it flooded while surveying his basement on Monday, February 25, 2019. Macklin lives in the Lennox Place subdivision off of Ebenezer Road in Knoxville, and parts of Ebenezer Road were still under several feet of water on Monday afternoon.
Volunteers Eve Kato, 6, and Jasper Elderd, 7, pretend to attack each other with what they called "Hulk arms" as a mural is painted at BREC's Gayosa Park in Baton Rouge on Saturday, July 12, 2014. BREC and The Walls Project teamed up for the beautification project and invited the public to lend their artistic talents and time to help paint the mural.
Calvin Skinner, right, is dragged out of the Main Assembly Room of the City-County Building in downtown Knoxville after a group of protesters interrupted the Knox County Commission meeting on Monday, April 19, 2021. Protestors interrupted the meeting demanding the release of police body camera footage following the fatal shooting of Anthony J. Thompson Jr. by police at Austin-East Magnet High School.
Hardin Valley Academy Class of 2025's graduation ceremony held at the school's football field on May 21, 2025.
Union County High School students leave their prom on scooters in downtown Knoxville’s Old City on Friday, May 7, 2021.
Richard Sneed, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and Lavita Hill are photographed at Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Hill is leading the charge to restore Clingmans Dome's name to what the Cherokee called the mountain—Kuwohi, which translates to "mulberry place."
Fans enjoy the game from the outfield during the Knoxville Smokies' game against the Chattanooga Lookouts at Covenant Health Park in downtown Knoxville's Old City on Friday, April 18, 2025. The multi-use stadium officially opened on April 15, bringing Smokies baseball back to Knoxville for the first time in 25 years.
Stephen McCoy, left, and his mother Kathy McCoy, right, disc golf in the snow at his apartment in the Middlebrook Heights neighborhood of Knoxville on Monday, January 15, 2023. A winter storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow across Knoxville on Monday.
Anderson County High's prom at Hunter Valley Farm in Knoxville on Saturday, April 22, 2023.
The Great Smoky Mountains loom in the background as visitors mingle at the trailhead near the parking area before beginning their steep trek up to Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
Daniel Beheeler looks over what is left of his destroyed home in Gatlinburg on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. “I brought a chair and just sat and digested it all,” said Beheeler. “Every moment, picture, baseball, wrestling photos. I am a huge music fanatic, and all my records are gone. Everything’s gone.”
Ethan Franklin from School of Rock Knoxville was selected to perform with School of Rock All-Stars. The group will perform several shows, including a set at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago in August.
A child wearing a Grinch head pauses for a photo as his buddies hurriedly prepares for the start of the Farragut Christmas Parade held in Farragut on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023.
Food City courtesy clerk William Carder, photographed at the Food City at 7350 Clinton Highway in Powell on June 16, 2026, won the annual Tennessee’s Best Bagger competition in Chattanooga. He will represent the state in the national competition at the National Grocers Association convention in Las Vegas, Nev., in February 2027.
Dr. Tom Kim, left, leans in to kiss the clinic goodbye while volunteer registered nurse Janet Master watches on as they close down Dr. Kim's free medical clinic at Abner Ross Memorial Center in Deer Lodge, Tenn., on Friday, December 14, 2018. The Deer Lodge clinic was the fifth free health clinic started by Dr. Kim, who founded the Free Medical Clinic of America on Chapman Highway in South Knoxville for the working poor. Weeks away from his 74th birthday, Kim decided he physically can work only at his original South Knoxville clinic, hoping other volunteer medical doctors will appear to take the helm there before he retires completely.
Karns High School Class of 2026 graduation at the school’s football stadium in Knoxville on May 14, 2026.
COVID-19 vaccinations are administered outside under a blooming dogwood tree at the East Knoxville Free Medical Clinic held at the Magnolia Avenue United Methodist Church at 2700 E. Magnolia Avenue on Monday, April 19, 2021. Volunteers have been providing free health care at the clinic to anyone who needs it for more than a decade.
Avshi Weinstein holds the violin of Jewish teenager Mordechai Schlein, who collected intelligence on the German military in Ukraine while he played at a restaurant frequented by German soldiers. Modechai, known as Motele, was killed while fighting with partisans in 1944 at age 14 in a German bombardment. His violin is part of the 'Violins of Hope' exhibit hosted by Digital Motif in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Feb. 18, 2025.
A morning bike ride as fog lifts from Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge on July 28, 2025.
Sandy Gray, owner of The Yarn Haven on Cedar Bluff Road in Knoxville, laughs as she talks about the mismatched paint on the walls, which was the same shade as the original paint, on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. The Yarn Haven had to replace drywall, among other repairs, after the business took in nearly a foot of water in the February 2019 flood.
Residents wade through flood water at Tiger Manor Apartments by the North Gates of LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday, August 13, 2016. Baton Rouge and surrounding communities were devastated by flooding after a slow-moving storm dumped more than 20 inches of rain in a 48-hour period.
Solter Angel of Nashville at his camp at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on Friday, June 8, 2018.
Students arrive for the first day of school at Woodland Elementary in Oak Ridge on Wednesday, July 28, 2021.
Denise McKissic wears a pumpkin flower in her hair as she stands in a wooded area on the farm land in Decatur, Tenn., that has been in her family for generations on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The McKissics first started growing pumpkins three years ago when they planted seeds the week of Juneteenth once James McKissics had clear title to the land after a decade of the land being tangled up in an heirs property dispute.
People watch the solar eclipse as it reaches totality at The Cove in Farragut on Monday, August 21, 2017.