WASHINGTON — A U.S. Capitol riot defendant who described himself as "one of those idiots scaling the wall" on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 60 days in prison and three years of probation on Thursday.

Federal agents on Tuesday arrested a Knoxville man on charges he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and then bragged about it to others. Clifford Meteer, 66, is accused of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A 67-year-old Knoxville man who was convicted for his actions during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol faces a new charge of possession of guns as a convicted felon.

On the same day a federal judge in Baltimore applied President Donald Trump’s mass pardon for Jan. 6 defendants to a man’s gun charge, another in Tennessee did the exact opposite — denying a man’s ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knoxville man is facing federal charges after two witnesses reported to the FBI that he participated in the January 6 Capitol insurrection in Washington D. C., according to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville man convicted of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot is now facing a new charge for possessing guns as a felon, according to a grand jury ...

Clifford Meteer, who pleaded guilty to his role in the Capitol attack, categorized Ashli Babbitt's death during the January 6, 2021 riot as a "murder" and likened it to the 1770 Boston Massacre. More ...

A Capitol rioter who pleaded guilty to entering the building compared the attack on the Capitol to the Boston Massacre and the storming of the Bastille.Brent Stirton/Getty Images A Tennessee man who ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The attorney for an East Tennessee man recorded illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection indicated Wednesday at a federal court status hearing that he and ...

A Tennessee man who entered the Capitol compared the attack to the historic Boston Massacre. "Trump Lives Matter," he wrote on Facebook, prosecutors said, in reference to Ashli Babbitt's death.