NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee lawsuit urges a judge to deem instant runoff voting legal in the state. Several prospective Memphis city council candidates and IRV Memphis, Inc. sued state elections coordinator Mark Goins and the Shelby County Election…
DALLAS (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. The nation's…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An affidavit says an East Tennessee officer took a woman caught shoplifting to his apartment and fondled her. News outlets report 28-year-old Benjamin Dessalines was arrested Thursday on felony kidnapping and felony sexual battery charges. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has swung through Tennessee to laud the approach being taken against the opioid epidemic by the Trump administration. Whitaker read from prepared remarks alongside Tennessee's U.S. attorneys Thursday in Nashville. He…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- University of Tennessee System interim president Randy Boyd has named a search committee to assist in the selection of a Knoxville campus chancellor. The chancellor for UT Martin, Keith Carver, will chair the committee, which will…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- An Alabama man pretending to be a college softball coach has been convicted in Florida of trying to make child porn. Court records show 42-year-old Jason Ford pleaded guilty in Fort Lauderdale federal court last…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The head of Tennessee's lottery has been elected president of the World Lottery Association. The Tennessee lottery said its president and CEO, Rebecca P. Hargrove, is the first female president of the global organization. It includes…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "SpongeBob SquarePants" creator Stephen Hillenburg has died at age 57. Nickelodeon says Hillenburg died Monday of Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as ALS. Hillenburg conceived, wrote, produced and directed the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A second Tennessee prisoner is requesting to die in the electric chair rather than by lethal injection. Lawyers for David Earl Miller have argued that Tennessee's midazolam-based, three-drug injection method causes excruciating pain. Tennessee's preferred method…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee House Democrats have elected the chamber's first African-American minority leader. Democrats chose Rep. Karen Camper of Memphis during leadership elections Sunday. She replaces former Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh of Ripley, who left the Legislature in…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities in Memphis say two women taking children to see a Christmas light show at the Memphis Zoo have been wounded in an apparent road rage shooting. News outlets report the two were taken to a…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a Tennessee school district to pay $103,000 to the family of a student with Down syndrome who was removed from an elementary school. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press ,…
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) -- Court records show a Middle Tennessee man was charged with domestic violence years before police say he fatally stabbed his wife and critically wounded her father. The Tennessean quotes police as saying 55-year-old Jerry Matthews killed…
FAYETTE COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a premeditated gas station robbery in West Tennessee ended in a gunfire exchange that left a deputy injured. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 21-year-old Christopher Dewayne Lee of Memphis and 26-year-old Jessica…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman has been accused of interfering with a legal bear hunt in East Tennessee by catching and stealing a hunting dog. News outlets quote a Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency statement as saying Sandra Lucille Inman…
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say a train has hit a vehicle in Tennessee killing both occupants. Germantown Police said 86-year-old driver Dorothy M. Bell and her 96-year-old passenger, Samuel J.W. Bell, were killed from injuries in Tuesday's crash. Police…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Three of country singer Glen Campbell's children have dropped their fight to contest the validity of two wills that exclude them from any inheritance. The Tennessean reported the siblings agreed on Monday to dismiss their complaint.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A former Memphis police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a drug-related corruption case. News outlets cited a statement from U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant in reporting that a federal judge sentenced…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller faces a Tuesday afternoon deadline to inform prison officials whether he wants to be executed by lethal injection or electrocution. Miller is scheduled to die on Dec. 6 for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee State Parks have expanded recycling with interior recycling bins added at all 56 state parks. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said in a news release that more than 400 exterior recycling receptacles were…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is planning to execute seven people over the next two years, after executing only eight since 1960. On Friday, the Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for six death row inmates in 2019 and 2020.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's newly elected governor says he wants to do a complete overhaul of the state's public records and open meeting laws as part of his commitment to making government more transparent. Republican Bill Lee first revealed…
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A publicist says country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show "Hee Haw" for nearly a quarter century, has died at age 85. Jeremy Westby said Clark died Thursday…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a body found 33 years ago along an East Tennessee highway has been identified as a woman reported missing from New Hampshire. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the partially decomposed body…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A family attorney says Marvel giant Stan Lee, the architect of...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- After running as a political outsider during his successful gubernatorial campaign, Republican Bill Lee says he'll continue to stay out of the "bubble of Nashville" by delivering his State of the State address throughout various locations…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Attorneys for the state of Tennessee say the courts should reject a plea by condemned inmate David Earl Miller to halt his execution. Miller is scheduled to be executed Dec. 6. He has filed a lawsuit…
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) -- A hospital in Tennessee has fired a worker who was photographed wearing a racist shirt while voting in Mississippi. News outlets report that Regional One Health in Memphis says its investigation into the image shared…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is providing resources to help residents who want to quit smoking during the Great American Smokeout. The annual event takes place Nov. 15, but Tennessee's resources are available year-round. They include the Tennessee Tobacco QuitLine…
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) -- A sheriff's office in Tennessee says it has received two reports of needles being found in Halloween candy. The Tennessean reported Wednesday that Wilson County Sheriff's Office Lt. Scott Moore says a child discovered a needle…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A jury has sided with workers who say they were sickened after they were tapped to clean up a massive 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that a jury found Wednesday…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned as the country's chief law enforcement officer. Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday. President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that Sessions' chief…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say a carbon monoxide leak at a Tennessee hotel has sickened nine people. News outlets reported the Nashville Fire Department was called out to the downtown Westin hotel on Wednesday morning. The Nashville Fire Department…
NASHVILLE -- Republican Mark Green has won one of three open U.S. House seats in Tennessee. Green is a state senator from Ashland City who will represent the 19 counties in District 7. The district includes the population centers…
NASHVILLE -- Republican businessman and political newcomer Bill Lee will become Tennessee's next governor, replacing outgoing GOP Gov. Bill Haslam, the Associated Press reports. Lee is projected to win Tuesday's election against former Democratic Nashville Mayor Karl Dean. Lee…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- An immigration board has rejected an appeal from a Spanish-language news outlet reporter who was arrested during a demonstration in Tennessee. The Commercial Appeal reports that while the Board of Immigration Appeal granted Manuel Duran a…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Concerns about voter registrations and the security of electronic voting machines are looming over the upcoming election in a Tennessee county. Two lawsuits have been filed in connection with Tuesday's pivotal election in Shelby County, the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man convicted of forcing women to engage in prostitution in Tennessee and Texas has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison The U.S. attorney's office in Memphis said 41-year-old Antonio Hawkins was sentenced Friday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- After four decades with only six executions, Tennessee is on schedule to execute three inmates this year alone. Edmund Zagorski died in the electric chair on Thursday. Billy Ray Irick…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee inmate's final words were "Let's rock" before he became the first man executed in the electric chair since 2007 in Tennessee. A reporter who witnessed the execution says 63-year-old iunmate Edmund Zagorski mostly looked…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is delaying the start of construction on a Neyland Stadium renovation project to review all aspects of the plan. Noting that he's been on the job for less than a year, athletic director Phillip Fulmer…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- With just hours left before his scheduled execution, condemned Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put a stop to it. On Thursday Zagorski asked the court take up his claim that it's…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in East Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen. News outlets report 26-year-old Harley C. Morton was arrested Tuesday on charges including trespassing and disorderly conduct.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski has once again been placed on death watch in anticipation of his Thursday execution by electric chair. The Tennessee Department of Correction said Tuesday that inmates on death watch are placed in…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York state has filed a lawsuit against a national jewelry retailer, claiming the company uses false and deceptive methods to dupe U.S. military members into illegal financing contracts for overpriced merchandise. Attorney General Barbara Underwood…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee paramedic is accused of intentionally hurting patients and then bragging about it online. The Tennessean reported Monday that state records say 43-year-old Gordon Brett Stokes in 2016 intentionally had a less-experienced first responder…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The 2018 muzzleloader and archery season for deer in Tennessee opens on Saturday. According to a news release from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Tennessee's muzzleloader season always begins the third Saturday before Thanksgiving. Muzzleloading firearms…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has unveiled new changes to improve the state's problem-plagued elementary and secondary school online testing process. Haslam announced Wednesday that TNReady will now produce faster test results, provide teachers with more resources…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection, and they succeeded — but not the way they hoped. Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Elvis Presley Enterprises has sued the city of Memphis over a delay in approval for expansion plans at Graceland. According to The Commercial Appeal , the federal lawsuit last week alleges illegal retaliation last month when…
