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Dr. Melissa Trekell (left) and nurse practitioner Amy Allen stand with a digital mammography machine at Maryville's Tennessee Breast Center. Trekell opposes recent recommendations about breast health.

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Maryville College center Greg Hernandez fakes to the right to shoot over a Webster University player during the James C. Campbell Memorial Tournament that tipped off Saturday at MC.

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On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe. For the first time, federal regulators are expected to prohibit the catching of bigeye, Hawaii's favored tuna variety, in waters west of the islands once the fishermen hit their annual catch limit. They're on course to do that around the first or second week of December.

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Bobby Fields (right), program coordinator for the Alzheimer's Association Eastern Tennessee Chapter, and Connie Evans, sales and marketing manager of Sterling House in Maryville, talk about the Safe Return program and the upcoming free sign up for dementia patients and their caregivers.

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Megadeth -- (from left) Chris Broderick, Dave Mustaine, Shawn Drover and James LoMenzo -- will perform Sunday, Nov. 22, at The Valarium in Knoxville.

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McKenzie Franklin (left) dances and sings during a dress rehearsal of "Babes in Toyland." She is the only cast member from Blount County in this production.