How did Knoxville get the nickname "Scruffy City?" The first instance of the phrase was used to trivialize the town prior to the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. On Dec. 29, 1980, the front page of The ...

Scruffy was found along the side of a road. He was taken to a rescue organization by a driver who found him. When Scruffy was cleaned up, groomers found a harness, a stick and other debris under his ...

After 30 years of shaving my Richard Nixon-like 5 o'clock shadow twice a day, it's become acceptable, even hip to sport stubble. I'm not talking about a well-clipped goatee or beard. I'm talking ...

If my Waco experience was soured at all by the flasher with the genital problem in Cameron Park, it has been sweetened anew through a few nights at Scruffy Murphy's. Wednesday night, to be specific — ...