WASHINGTON (AP) -- A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by President Donald Trump. That's according to two administration officials and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Religious publishers say President Donald Trump's most recent proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could result in a Bible shortage. That's because millions of Bibles are printed in China each year. Stan Jantz is president and CEO…
DALLAS (AP) -- H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died. Family spokesman James Fuller says Perot died early Tuesday. He was 89. Perot rose from Depression-era poverty to become one of the…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Clarksville are cracking down with the city's curfew in response to a rise in car thefts and burglaries by juveniles. Clarksville Police Spokesman Jim Knoll says there have been 500 vehicle burglaries and 300…
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- Police in East Texas say a teenager from San Antonio is suspected of taking a tub of ice cream from a Walmart freezer, removing the top to lick the ice cream and then returning it to…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee hospital system says it's suspending legal actions against patients who have unpaid medical bills amid mounting public outcry over the practice. The Commercial Appeal reports Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is suspending the practice for…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating the theft of guns from a pawn shop in West Tennessee. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a news release that about nine guns were stolen from Cash…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- City Council members in Memphis have approved part of a plan for a $75 million expansion project at Elvis Presley's Graceland. Tuesday's vote by council members was related to a plan to provide tax incentives for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal judge in Nashville says there are some "serious constitutional issues" with a new Tennessee law that prohibits ministers ordained online from solemnizing weddings. The Washington-based Universal Life Church Monastery Storehouse and three Tennesseans ordained…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Chattanooga say a man told officers he drunkenly broke into a nature center and tried to play fetch with a bobcat, accidentally allowing the creature to escape. Photo of Evi…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The parents of a 2-year-old Kentucky boy who died at a Tennessee state park last month are seeking $900,000 in damages from the state. Attorney Christopher Smith tells The Tennessean that the Tennessee Department of Environment…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that requires online auctioneers to be licensed but exempts some big auction websites like eBay. U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson filed the temporary restraining order last week…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Tennessee say a man is accused of stealing a scissor lift and driving it through downtown Nashville. WKRN-TV reports 23-year-old Hunter Pullens was charged with joyriding, vandalism and public intoxication. Police were alerted that…
KENT, Conn. (AP) -- Police say a Connecticut man accused in the fatal stabbing of a Nashville man and the wounding of his wife has been fatally shot in Texas after stabbing a deputy there. The Metropolitan Nashville Police tweeted…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A Middle Tennessee high school student bothered by a property tax increase has announced his intention to run for city council. The Daily News Journal reports 17-year-old Zach Ouellette will run for a spot on the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee prosecutor is seeking to "revoke or substantially increase" the bond for a man who had the upper half of a human torso in his vehicle when he was arrested. News outlets report Knox…
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- An arrest warrant says a driver accused of intentionally running over pedestrians in East Tennessee, killing a pregnant mother and her toddler son, told police that a voice was directing his actions. The Knoxville News…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- East Tennessee police say a drunken driver crashed into the cruisers of two officers performing a traffic stop. News outlets report that 44-year-old Anthony Daily struck a Knoxville police vehicle, pushing it into a second cruiser…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Red paint and the phrase "they were racists" were discovered on a Confederate monument in a Nashville park. Police say they found the vandalism Monday at the Confederate Private Monument in Centennial Park. Red liquid was…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gloria Vanderbilt, the "poor little rich girl" heiress at the center of a scandalous custody battle of the 1930s and the designer jeans queen of the 1970s and '80s, died on Monday at 95, according to…
HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of an inmate found unconscious in his cell, apparently after a fight with his cellmate. News outlets report 42-year-old Ernest Hill was pronounced dead Saturday at…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Swift's latest song has a new target: homophobes. The pop star released a new tune called "You Need to Calm Down" late Thursday, where she addresses her own haters but also calls out those who…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Workers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga are finishing a vote over whether to unionize. The vote of about 1,700 hourly workers began Wednesday and concludes Friday. A win would offer the United Auto Workers its first…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month. President Donald Trump announced the news on Twitter Thursday. He says Sanders will be returning to her home state…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee district attorney is reviewing all pending cases investigated by a detective who has said the government should execute gay people. Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen announced the action Wednesday in a statement after…
WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News has a crew on the way to the Frayser community where the officer-involved shooting and subsequent clash between residents and officers took place. We'll have the latest on WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News at 5 and 6.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Top Republican elected officials in Tennessee say their state's improved economy is partly why at least 128,000 children were cut from its low-income health insurance programs over the past two years. However, Democrats and some health…
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention's national meeting have endorsed a proposal making it easier to expel churches that mishandle sex-abuse cases. The action came at the end of Day One of a two-day meeting in…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- An education assistance program has been expanded to include soldiers at Fort Campbell as well as Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers throughout Kentucky. The Army Credentialing Assistance Program provides funding for training and classes…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Health officials say mosquitoes collected in Tennessee's largest county have tested positive for the West Nile virus. The Shelby County Health Department said Tuesday that the virus was found in two south Memphis zip codes. Mosquitoes…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis officials have settled on a simple solution for a Confederate street name challenge: removing a single letter. News outlets report that about 30 signs were changed Monday from Forrest Avenue to Forest Avenue, dropping one…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee Crime Stoppers organization is offering $26,000 for information that could lead to an arrest in the shooting of a Memphis businessman. News outlets report the reward was announced Monday by Memphis Crime Stoppers, a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Promise scholars can fulfill their community service requirement during a volunteer event in the Tennessee State Parks this month. According to a news release, 54 of the state's 56 parks will offer a volunteer event.…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police have identified two men fatally shot outside a Middle Tennessee restaurant. The Clarksville Police Department said officers responded Wednesday night to a report of shots fired at a Longhorn Steakhouse in Clarksville and found the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Planned Parenthood says it is putting up new billboards criticizing Democratic Tennessee Rep. John DeBerry's stance on abortion. Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood Executive Director Francie Hunt said Thursday that three billboards in Memphis ask for…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The company that makes Jack Daniel's took a hit from the Trump administration's tariff fight, estimating that the standoff dragged sales growth down by a percentage point for the entire year. Brown-Forman Corp. posted fourth quarter…
MIAMI (AP) -- Prosecutors say the Florida deputy who failed to confront a gunman during last year's Parkland massacre has been arrested on 11 charges. State Attorney Mike Satz announced Tuesday that 56-year-old Scot Peterson faces child neglect, culpable negligence…
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Middle Tennessee say they've minimized a threat posted by a man against the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The post mentioned a bomb and said, "I might kill such people." The Knoxville News Sentinel…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee otter named Otto has died after park visitors gave him food that his body couldn't tolerate. News outlets report Bays…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A former East Tennessee police officer has been indicted on a sexual battery charge, stemming from an allegation that he fondled a suspected shoplifter. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports former Chattanooga police Officer Benjamin Dessalines…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for urinating on a Kellogg's cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis facility. The U.S. attorney's office in Memphis says 49-year-old Gregory Stanton was sentenced Friday…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- A National Park Service report says that visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park spent $953 million in communities near the park last year. A park news release says the spending came from the 11.4 million…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Public health officials say an invasive tick has been detected in Tennessee. According to the Tennessee…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A jury has found a man guilty of murder in a shooting at a Nashville church two years ago that left a woman dead and seven people wounded. The jury deliberated less than five hours before…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A conservative House Republican complaining of Washington's free-spending ways has temporarily blocked a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill. Texas Republican Chip Roy objected to speeding the measure through a nearly-empty chamber on Friday. He also complained…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jurors in Tennessee are deliberating the fate of a black man who killed a woman and wounded seven people at a Nashville church in apparent revenge for the racist massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston,…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. filed new charges Thursday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of placing the United States at risk of "serious harm" by publishing thousands of secret and classified documents, including the names of confidential sources…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The nation's largest Protestant denomination is reporting its twelfth year of declining memberships. On Thursday, the Southern Baptist Convention reported total membership for 2018 at 14.8 million, down about 192,000 from the previous year. Baptisms also…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A handful of lawmakers are throwing their name into the race to be Tennessee's next House speaker. House Speaker Glen Casada has announced this week he will resign after…
MORRISTOWN, Ariz. (AP) -- Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss expression entertained millions on the internet, has died at age 7. Her owners wrote on social media Friday that she experienced complications from a urinary tract infection and "passed away peacefully" Tuesday…
