Within minutes after David Batts entered the Knox County jail on Jan. 7, Knox County sheriff's officers pepper-sprayed, shocked him with a Taser four times and punched him as they tried to get him ...

On Monday, Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler provided a timeline of events that led up to David Batts' death, saying that officers committed no wrongdoing. Spangler said Batts was arrested at 1 p.m. on ...

The Knox County District Attorney General's Office said on Jan. 23 that the District Attorney would not ask state agents to investigate the death of David Batts, who died in the hospital a day ...

Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family of David Batts, the former Knoxville Area Transit employee who died after he left the Roger D. Wilson Detention ...

In a matchup of top District 3 programs, Middletown and East Pennsboro squared off in round two of its season series.

David Batts, 46, died the night of Jan. 8 at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, according to his family. Law enforcement arrested him at the hospital ER on Jan. 7 and booked him for an ...