KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two months ago, we brought you the story of Sam Burnett, a 77-year-old drag racing fanatic whose final wish was to see one more race at the Knoxville track he loved most. On Sunday, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tra’Shawn Glass, one of two people indicted in a January 2023 drag racing crash on Magnolia Avenue that left one person dead and two children injured, has been sentenced.

MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. — A paralyzed Knoxville man living in a nursing home got his final wish: coming back to the drag racing track, one last time. Among the sounds of revving engines and the smell of ...

The woman who was convicted of vehicular homicide in connection to a deadly Knoxville drag racing crash that happened in 2023 has been sentenced to serve more than a decade in the Tennessee Department ...

KNOXVILLE — It's uncharacteristically quiet at the Knoxville Raceway on Wednesday afternoon. Instead of the roar of engines, RVs and campers sit idly at the center of the track. A single group of ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill 2814 into law on Tuesday, May 21. The law raises the penalty for drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. Eleven members of the ...

"What people are doing in Tennessee is giving hope," Lizzo said onstage. Lizzo is making her stance clear on Tennessee's recent legislation that bans drag shows from taking place in public or in front ...

Lizzo used her concert in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday (April 21) to speak out in protest of the state's recent legislation aimed at restricting drag performance in public. She was joined at the ...

If you blink fast, roll racing and drag racing both look almost completely the same — if you're even lucky enough to catch any of it by the time you open your eyes again. However, drag racing and roll ...

Lizzo performing at the Mo Pop Music Festival in Detroit in 2019. In protest of Knoxville’s law banning drag performances, the Grammy-winning singer was accompanied by 20 drag queens while performing ...

NEWTON, Iowa — Less than a month before Indianapolis 500 practice starts, Kyle Larson said he simply hopes to run both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day this year. Larson spoke with ...