On the same day more than 40 years ago, lightning struck twice for Dolly Parton. She wrote “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene,” two of her signature songs.

Travel Channel star Kevin Michael Connolly was born without legs — but that doesn't keep him from reaching for new heights in the Smoky Mountains.

A look at what happened around here in 2012: January. Production on "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" started for the Watson family of West Knoxville. Jenny McCarthy substituted for the missing Ty Pennington. Hundreds of volunteers fought snow and frigid temperatures ...

Years ago I used to scan other critics' best-of lists and make sure I heard their choices and labored over which discs were truly groundbreaking. At some point I realized that my real favorite albums, the one I'd still love ...

Inflation isn't such a bad thing for some Knoxville-area stars. Website celebritynetworth.com, which claims to have the inside track on the financial value of celebrities by using many different sources to formulate an estimate, has updated its numbers of several ...

Dolly Parton set the record straight on "Nightline" on Monday night, as she sat down for an interview to promote her new memoir "Dream More." Parton denied longstanding rumors that she is romantically involved with her childhood friend Judy Ogle, ...

Dolly Parton shares some of that Smoky Mountain wisdom of hers in a new book, out Tuesday. The idea for the book came from Parton's commencement speech made at the University of Tennessee in 2009. In it, she encouraged students ...

Adam Hill may have been about a decade before his time when he was in Knoxville. After Hill's tenure with the rock band the Satellite Pumps, he performed with a group called the Raggedettes, which, he says, would have fit ...

Farragut native Jake Thomas has a particularly dark role on this week's installment of "NCIS."

British comedian Graham Norton was trapped. "We were in Pigeon Forge when (the) Sept. 11 (attacks), happened," said the English talk-show host during a phone interview recently. "We were at Dixie Stampede."

Pat Summitt gave me a little insight into her upcoming book, being penned by Washington Post sports writer Sally Jenkins.

The Oak Ridge Boys have won lots of awards, but Richard Sterban, the deep bass of the Boys since 1972, says that receiving the James D. Vaughan Impact Award is special.

Dolly Parton is about to go on a mystery date — but it'll cost her charity-hearted suitor $138,000.

Hollywood can't get enough of Dolly Parton. Though she isn't particularly interested in doing television right now — she tells me she's taking the next year off to do some writing — Parton could certainly get work in Tinsel Town ...

ohnny Cash's life and career will be featured this fall in a six-part documentary.