(CNN NEWSOURCE) Literary legend Beverly Cleary has passed away at the age of 104. Cleary wrote dozens of popular children's books including the "Ramona Quimby" series and "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" trilogy. CNN's…
HOUSTON (AP) — The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers. That alarms child welfare experts who say the waiver compromises safety.…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia Beach say two people died and eight people were injured in overnight shootings along the city's oceanfront. The wounded were shot late Friday and their conditions ranged from serious to life-threatening. In…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Board of Regents has named Willie Huffman president of the Colleges of Applied Technology in Paris and McKenzie. The board that oversees Tennessee’s community colleges and applied technology colleges appointed Huffman at its meeting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bill Brock, a former Tennessee senator and Republican chairman who rebuilt the party after the Watergate scandal, has died at age 90. Family friend Tom Griscom says Brock died on Thursday morning. Brock was an official…
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Authorities are preparing to make new attempts to free a giant container vessel stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal for a fifth day and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping. Plans are in the works…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville judge has ruled that Tennessee Education Lottery officials must reinstate the license of a sports betting company that was accused of lacking the proper safeguards to stop debit card fraud. During an emergency hearing…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a law banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports. I signed the bill to preserve women's athletics and ensure fair competition. This legislation responds to damaging federal policies…
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's health ministry says two trains collided on Friday in the southern part of the country, causing three passenger cars to flip over, killing at least 32 people and leaving at least 66 injured. Dozens of ambulances…
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Three days after he was led away in handcuffs from a Boulder supermarket where 10 people were fatally shot, the suspect appeared in court for the first time and his defense lawyer asked for a mental…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Senate panel has advanced legislation requiring school districts to alert parents of any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, allowing them to opt their student out of such instruction. Supporters of the bill…
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci isn’t ready to say the nation has turned the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, despite about 2.5 million Americans getting vaccinated each day. The government’s top infectious disease expert says he often gets asked that…
On March 24, 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. Also on this date: In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to…
ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Officials say a skyscraper-sized container ship has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway. The ship's stranding is threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's attorney general says the state will receive $4.9 million from a $188.6 million multistate settlement over deceptive marketing claims against a maker of surgical mesh products. Attorney General Herbert Slatery's office announced Tennessee's share Tuesday…
SPARTA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was able to turn his luck around after finding his missing $1 million winning lottery ticket in a parking lot. The Tennessee Education Lottery says Sparta resident Nick Slatten learned on March 11…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966′s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and starred in the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs,” has died. Segal's wife Sonia Segal said in…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A piece of the Wright brothers' first airplane is on Mars. Photo Courtesy: NASA Mars: Helicopter on the Martian Surface (Artist's Concept): In this illustration, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter stands on…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Doubts linger more than a century later about the precise location of heroics that won American World War I Sergeant Alvin York a Medal of Honor. The life and heroism of the Tennessee native are the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Justin Timberlake will open a three-level restaurant in downtown Nashville next month. The Nashville Tennessean reports Timberlake teamed with restaurateur Sam Fox to open the Twelve Thirty Club on Apr. 14. The first level will be…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As migrants surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden’s administration has been caught on its heels and is now scrambling to manage a humanitarian and political challenge that threatens to overshadow its ambitious agenda. The…
MIAMI (AP) — Two Royal Caribbean lines will resume cruises in the Caribbean in June, ending a yearlong hiatus. Passengers 18 and older will be required to test negative for COVID-19 before getting on the ships. The company’s Celebrity Cruises…
(AP) -- Lawmakers and advocates say if the suspect in the deadly Atlanta-area shootings had been forced to wait before getting a gun, he might not have acted on his impulse. Police say the suspect legally bought a 9 mm…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James left in the second quarter with a high right ankle sprain that the Lakers said will sideline him indefinitely, and Los Angeles went on to fall 99-94 to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday. Two…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are relaxing social distancing recommendations for schools, now saying students can sit as close as 3 feet to each other in classrooms. The new Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, announced Friday,…
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A company will develop a solar farm in Mississippi to provide power for two Facebook data centers in the southeastern United States. Florida-based Origis Energy will own and operate a 150-megawatt solar and 50-megawatt battery storage…
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook says it is working on a version of its Instagram app for kids under 13, who are technically not allowed to use the app in its current form due to federal privacy regulations. The…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A study being conducted in three Southern states is part of an effort to determine why more Black people aren’t involved in clinical trials involving lung cancer research. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Augusta University…
(CNN NEWSOURCE/ WAPT) Jackson, Miss. -- Severe weather brought the enormous tree down, splitting the family's home in two.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say siblings in East Tennessee have been charged with killing their mother. A statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said 40-year-old Michael Murray and 45-year-old Karen Murray were indicted Thursday by a Washington…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Tennessee man has been charged with intentionally setting a fire that killed a man in a rooming house. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 57-year-old Jerry Lee Sanders has been indicted on…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to open a gateway to citizenship for young Dreamers, immigrant farm workers and other migrants who fled to the U.S. from war or natural disasters abroad. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="ef87b48d702ea5ee9e49fe901217d8b48b640403" vtitle="House OKs Dems' immigration…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Senate has advanced legislation that would allow most adults 21 and older to carry firearms — concealed or openly — without a license that now requires a background check and training. The proposal must…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Tennessee man has been charged in the beating death of his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter. The Shelby County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that 28-year-old Victor P. Williams has been indicted on charges including…
(AP) -- The IRS will delay the traditional April 15 tax filing due date until May 17 to cope with added duties and provide Americans more flexibility. The IRS announced the decision Wednesday and said it would provide further guidance…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is again urging people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. In an interview Tuesday night with Fox News, Trump acknowledged that people are free to decide for themselves and that many of…
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says its daytime show “The Talk” will stay on hiatus for another week after a discussion about racism involving co-host Sharon Osbourne went off the rails last week. Osbourne reacted with anger and profanity when…
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man has been captured hours after eight people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock, Georgia, was taken into…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In North Korea’s first comments directed at the Biden administration, Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister warned the United States to “refrain from causing a stink” if it wants to “sleep in peace” for the next…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego authorities say a driver plowed through a sidewalk homeless encampment Monday in downtown San Diego, killing three people and injuring six others. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="cd3f3af0ccae2cd3371c089dd15bc0fa3b91253a" vtitle="3 die when car hits 9 people in San…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Senate has advanced a proposal that would remove a clause in the state’s constitution allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Currently, the Tennessee Constitution states that “slavery and involuntary servitude,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who blew himself up in a Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville was grappling with feelings of paranoia and eccentric conspiracy theories before the explosion but did not appear to be motivated by political ideology.…
ROME (AP) — The Vatican has decreed that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions, saying that God “cannot bless sin.” The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response Monday to a…
NEW YORK (AP) — David Fincher’s “Mank” has led nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods. For the first time, two women — Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell — were nominated for best director. Eight films were nominated…
(CBS Newspath) -- This statue honoring the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was unveiled in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York on Friday (3/12). The borough president also proclaimed March…
(AP) DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by students who attended recruitment parties, the school said. The university said in a statement that…
(AP) --Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a split-decision loss to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, died Saturday. He was 66. Wife Kay G. Hagler confirmed the death on Facebook on the…
NEW YORK (AP) — It could be a night for the history books for Taylor Swift and Beyoncé at Sunday’s Grammy Awards — for both good and bad reasons. Swift could become the first woman to win the show’s top…
(AP) -- Dr. Anthony Fauci says he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In a round of interviews on the morning news shows, the government’s top…
