Democratic Governor Tim Kaine is on the short-list of vice-presidential possibilities. 

This weeks student of the week is a 4th grader from Brookside Elementary in Kingsport. 

If you’re using premium gas and thinking it’s better for your engine, Consumer Reports says you may be wasting your money. Most cars are designed to run on regular gas. So using premium doesn’t do anything except cost you about 20 cents more per gallon.

Some Happy Valley High School teachers and students are using their hair to help women fighting cancer. The high school personnel plan to donate their hair to make wigs for cancer patients. There’s a big hair cut party scheduled Thursday at 3:30 at the Carnegie Hotel in Johnson City on State of Franklin. There the hair donors will get a professional cut and style at the Austin Springs Spa.

Tennessee will soon send out 1.5 million informational packets to public school students to boost enrollment in the state’s health insurance program for low-income families.

Some of cyberspace’s biggest websites and the computer industry’s most powerful companies were once nothing more than a few big dreams in a small garage. Now one Johnson City man is following the same garage-to-greatness approach made legendary by Hewlett-Packerd, Apple, and Google with his new dot com start up. Eric McCarty has vowed to stay put in his family’s garage in Johnson City until 500 new users join his forum site. Find out about his decision to set up shop in the shed, what he’s doing to pass the time and his belief that his website can one day change the world.