NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee lawmakers are preparing to kick off the 111th General Assembly, ushering with it a new governor and a booming freshman class poised to tackle the state's most high-profile issues while also setting the budget. The…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say two elderly people were killed in a house fire in Memphis. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said in a statement that fire and emergency crews responded to a blaze at a one-story, wood-frame…
NASHVILLE -- Gov. Bill Haslam has granted executive clemency to a woman serving a life sentence. The governor granted clemency Monday to Cyntoia Brown by commuting her sentence of life imprisonment, according to a release from the governor's office. Brown…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the identity of a 20-year-old man killed by Memphis police. News outlets report the TBI says Abdoulaye Thiam was killed Wednesday by three police officers responding to a domestic…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man who was one of the first inmates to be released under a new federal sentencing reform law is officially a free man. Matthew Charles received national attention in 2018 after being resentenced and…
SEATAC, Wash. (AP) -- Seven years after Washington legalized the adult use of marijuana, Gov. Jay Inslee says he plans to pardon thousands of convictions for misdemeanor pot possession. The Democrat, who is mulling a 2020 presidential run, made the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's top Republican lawmakers say the state's biggest county isn't following a new law that prohibits local authorities from requiring a warrant or probable cause before complying with federal immigration detainers. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Marsha Blackburn was sworn in Thursday as Tennessee's junior senator, making her the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. Prior to her election to the Senate, Sen. Blackburn represented Tennessee's seventh congressional district…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Memphis have shot and killed a man they say was armed with a knife. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that Memphis police officers responding to a domestic disturbance Wednesday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former Tennessee priest who was forced from the priesthood in 1989 has died in prison while serving time for a 1999 child rape conviction. The Tennessean reports South Central Correctional Facility officials say 74-year-old Edward…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A high school in Tennessee that's been struggling with a pest infestation is set to reopen after Christmas break. WMC-TV reports Shelby County Schools said Kirby High School students would return to campus on Jan. 7…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A black federal judge in Tennessee has raised concerns that a federal prosecutor's office in Memphis is charging black people with harsher counts than white people for similar crimes. The Commercial Appeal reports U.S. District Judge…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is advising soybean and cotton farmers to follow new federal guidelines when applying a weed killer blamed for drifting and damaging crops in neighboring fields. In a news release, the department…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A revamp of billing rules for Tennessee's TennCare program has left some rural health care clinics struggling to stay open. The Tennessean reported Thursday that supplemental patient TennCare payments promised to rural clinics have been frozen…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's education department is advising school officials that it's not their role to determine whether students and their families are in the country legally under a new state law against sanctuary cities. The law taking effect…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. Liberal California became the largest legal…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Items associated with Elvis Presley will once again be on the auction block at Graceland as part of a celebration of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's birthday. According to a news release on Wednesday, the…
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say three teenagers and an adult have been killed in a house fire in a suburb of Memphis. Collierville Fire Department Chief of Administration Mark King said the fire began Sunday night in a two-story…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov.-elect Bill Lee has released his schedule of events leading up to inauguration on Jan. 19. Lee's transition team announced Friday that the newly elected Republican will hold events that include free tours of the Tennessee…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee airport has identified the four people killed in a plane crash in Atlanta, including a prominent businessman and three co-workers. Millington Airport said in a tweet on its official Twitter account Friday that the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The lead detective in the case involving a woman convicted of murdering a man when she was a 16-year-old prostitute is urging Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam not to grant her clemency. According to a seven-page letter…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has granted executive clemency to 11 people as he inches closer to the end of his final term in office. Haslam announced Thursday he issued pardons to seven people and commutations to four…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee says he'll jump in his car next month when his term is finished and drive home from Washington. He insists he's got no idea what's next after that. That's despite…
ATLANTA (AP) -- An official at a West Tennessee airport says the business jet that crashed in Atlanta had been headed to the Memphis area. Millington-Memphis Airport Executive Director Roy Remington says the plane was headed to his airport…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says he will decide whether to run for an open U.S. Senate seat sometime after leaving office next month. Haslam told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he's planning a short…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State auditors say the Tennessee Department of Education failed to provide adequate oversight while rolling out its problem-plagued student assessment test in the spring, which resulted in widespread delays and sparked outrage among lawmakers. According to…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee prosecutor says authorities have dismissed charges against a black man who was filmed being struck by a white police officer while he was handcuffed earlier this month. News outlets report prosecutor Alan Dunn…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee city's downtown Nativity scene has lost its baby Jesus for the second year in a row. After the figure's theft last year, the people responsible for the Nativity scene on Kingsport's Church Circle…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says he won't seek re-election in 2020. Alexander said in a news release Monday that he's deeply grateful for being elected to serve more combined years as governor and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Several Democratic Tennessee lawmakers are urging Republican Gov. Bill Haslam to grant clemency to a woman convicted of murdering a man when she was a 16-year-old prostitute. Newly elected Nashville Sen. Brenda Gilmore led a group…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee sheriff's office is disputing the extent of the injuries suffered by a black man beaten by a white officer while handcuffed. An attorney for 25-year-old Charles Toney says hospital records prove he suffered…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The family of a man killed when a concrete chunk went through his windshield is now offering a $10,000 reward for more information on the case. News outlets report the family of Joe Crockett Shelton Jr.…
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. (AP) -- A city council candidate in northeastern Arkansas whose runoff election ended in a tie after he didn't vote has lost his bid for the seat by a roll of the dice. The race for a…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The attorney for a black Tennessee man whose beating by a white sheriff's officer while he was handcuffed was caught on video says the officer should be fired immediately and then prosecuted. Lee Merritt told reporters…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- The commission investigating a Florida high school massacre heavily criticized the responding sheriff office's active shooter policy, saying it contributed to the failure of some deputies to run into the building and confront the gunman.…
OAK GROVE, Ky. (AP) -- A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of the people responsible for stealing multiple firearms from a store near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. A statement from the Bureau of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A state government group says Tennessee should still keep a paper trail of voters' ballots roughly 10 years after coming out with a similar recommendation that resulted in little change. According to the Tennessee Advisory Commission…
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Residents walked instead of driving cars and children enjoyed another day of building snowmen with school canceled Monday after a wintry storm dropped snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states. Accidents on snow-covered interstates…
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Tennessee found a 40-year-old woman strangled to death and have arrested her husband. Columbia Police say 42-year-old Richard Aaron Ludwig has been charged with first degree murder and aggravated domestic assault resulting in death.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Incoming Gov. Bill Lee has named four more staffers as he prepares to take office next month. The Republican's transition team on Friday announced additions of Chris Devaney as special assistant to the governor; Brent Easley…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say the remains of an Army infantryman who went missing during World War II have been identified and they are being returned home to Tennessee. Gov. Bill Haslam said in a news release that the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's Supreme Court is clarifying that a woman convicted of first-degree murder as a teen could be released from prison after serving at least 51 years. The court issued the opinion Thursday at the request of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee inmate is scheduled Thursday evening to become the second person to die in the state's electric chair in as many months. The execution plan comes nearly two decades after Tennessee adopted lethal injection. But…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man faces up to three years in prison for urinating on a Kellogg's cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis facility. News outlets report 49-year-old Gregory Stanton pleaded guilty last month to tampering with consumer…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital says a $50 million donation from a research-based pharmaceutical company is the largest one-time gift in its history. The Memphis-based hospital said Monday that the donation from the AbbVie company will…
BENTON, Ark. (AP) -- A former member of a Tennessee youth football program that lost a player in a pre-dawn bus crash in Arkansas says the program can keep children from being lured into a world of drugs and crime. One…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A military aircraft carrying the remains of former President George H.W. Bush has arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., as the nation's capital prepares to honor the 41st president. Former…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will attend the funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush in Washington, D.C. Haslam's office announced Monday the Republican will attend the invitation-only funeral service on Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral.…
BENTON, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas State Police say 45 people, most of them children, have been injured in a fatal crash involving a charter bus that was carrying a youth football team from Tennessee. Police say one child was killed…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority is accused of illegally blocking the sale of an unfinished nuclear power plant in a federal lawsuit filed by a developer trying to buy the plant. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports…
