Knox News: Guess what Albert Gore Jr., Sarah Palin and an albino raccoon have in common
Albert Gore. Jr., Sarah Palin and an albino raccoon all the made the knoxnews most read article list.
For a few weeks in December, we asked readers to tell us the top stories of 2010 based on a list editors developed.
And those may have very well been the top regional stories of last year, but they certainly weren't the most read on knoxnews.com.
Only three of those 10 made the list of the 10 most read stories on knoxnews based on page views.
February and April were particularly "big story" months.
Here are the top 10 stories of 2010 on knoxnews based on page views, or how many times the page was called up on a computer screen.
1) UT to give Gore honorary degree
Feb 27, 2010
Former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee.
The degree - an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - will be given to Gore at the spring commencement exercises of the College of Arts and Sciences on May 14, where he will be the featured speaker.
2) Jury convicts Palin e-mail intruder on two counts; mistrial declared on ID theft
April 30, 2010
A federal jury convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.
The jury acquitted Kernell, 22, of felony wire fraud.
U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Phillips declared a mistrial on another charge, felony identity theft, after the jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked.
3) Inskip teacher charged; principal, assistant principal in hospital after shooting
Feb. 10, 2010
An Inskip Elementary School fourth-grade teacher faces prosecution tonight on two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the shootings of the school's principal and assistant principal.
Mark Stephen Foster, 48, of Clinton was taken into custody minutes after the shootings at the school, 4701 High School Road in North Knoxville.
4) Powell man charged with vehicular homicide, left passenger to die
Sept. 15, 2010
A Powell man has been charged with vehicular homicide after crashing his car and then leaving his passenger to die.
Harry Duggan, 46, was driving east on Kodak Road on Tuesday when he ran off the right side of the road and struck a tree. His passenger, 35-year-old Melissa Cameron, was partially ejected from the car, and died at the scene, according to a Knox County Sheriff's Office accident report.
5) TBI, police investigating suspended Clinton High teacher
Feb. 5, 2010
A Clinton High School teacher suspended without pay and charged with "improper conduct" by school officials is the focus of a criminal investigation, officials confirmed today.
Officials declined to comment about specific allegations against Megan Baumann, who was placed on unpaid leave shortly after noon Thursday by Anderson County Schools Director Larry Foster. Her suspension is until further notice.
6) Mom who threw pricey 'Super Sweet 15' party indicted in fraud
Oct. 10, 2010
Leslie Anne Janous was arraigned Friday on a 13-count wire fraud indictment accusing her of bilking Scancarbon, a brokerage firm for precious metals, high purity coal and silicon products that are exported to countries across the world, of nearly $2.4 million this year alone. FBI Agent Christopher S. Lucado alleges in a criminal complaint, however, that Janous has been stealing from the firm since 2006 and puts her thievery haul at $4.5 million.
7) Rare albino raccoon captured in West Knox
July 30, 2010
Randy Wolfe, owner of Varmint Busters Wildlife Management Services, trapped a male albino raccoon Thursday near Nubbin Ridge in West Knox County.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wildlife biologist David Brandenburg said finding an albino raccoon is very uncommon.
"You don't see more of them because natural selection usually takes care of that," he said. "White is not a good color for a wildlife creature."
8) Judge: No testimony from Utah student who accessed Palin account
April 23, 2010
With the government wrapping up its case, the defense attorney for a former University of Tennessee student accused of illegally accessing one-time Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's private e-mail account tried and failed to put another college student in the hot seat.
Attorney Wade Davies this afternoon sought to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips to allow him to force a reluctant Justin Hill to testify as a defense witness.
9) Woman killed man who shot husband during S. Knox home invasion
Nov, 22, 2010
A woman shot and killed a man during a South Knoxville home invasion robbery after the intruder had struggled with and shot her husband, authorities said this morning.
A second interloper escaped, apparently uninjured, and was being sought by police.
10) Police: Parkwest victims 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'
April 20, 2010
The man police said shot and killed a woman, wounded two others and then killed himself believed a doctor had implanted a tracking chip in his body during an appendectomy, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this afternoon.
Abdo Ibssa, who would have turned 39 today, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ethiopia, used a stolen .357-caliber magnum pistol to shoot the women and then himself about 4:34 p.m. Monday outside Parkwest Medical Center.
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