KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The National Park Service says the scavenged body of a missing man has been found at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that straddles Tennessee and North Carolina. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports rangers found 30-year-old…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty in the killing of a college student during a robbery 24 years ago. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Tuesday that 41-year-old Phanhsay Phanivong pleaded guilty to second-degree murder…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Two rivals in Tennessee's open U.S. Senate race are touting plans to curb the $21 trillion-plus national debt, with Democrat Phil Bredesen saying his idea could balance the budget within six years. The former governor and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal officials have announced $643,300 for six projects aimed at opioid prevention, treatment and recovery. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the projects are part of $10.7 million for 85 initiatives across 22 states through the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence will headline another Tennessee fundraiser for Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in her Senate bid. An event invitation says the Knoxville fundraiser will be Sept. 21. Attending will cost $1,000 per person;…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Military officials say they've accounted for the remains of a Tennessee World War II pilot killed more than 70 years ago. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says remains of Navy Reserve Ensign Harold P. DeMoss were…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say five people were hospitalized after an early morning shooting at a Memphis nightclub. Memphis police said on Twitter that four people were shot early Monday at the Purple Haze nightclub. Police said one person…
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn could make history by becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. She is running against Democrat Phil Bredesen, a former Tennessee governor who says he always has…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the death of a jail inmate at a facility where the son of pro wrestling icon Jerry Lawler was fatally injured earlier this year. The Commercial Appeal reports that Tennessee Bureau of Investigation…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A doctor says in a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's three-drug lethal injection protocol that a man executed last month experienced "torturous effects." In the state Supreme Court filing Thursday, expert Dr. David Lubarsky concluded based on witness…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mac Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, has died at the age of 26. A family statement released through his publicist says Miller…
CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Police say the body of an Ohio woman who was killed by her husband might have wound up in a Kentucky landfill. Philip Snider, 73, pleaded guilty last week to aggravated murder and other charges in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say bones found inside a small duffel bag near a lake in Tennessee are those of a missing man. Police tell news outlets in a statement that the bag was discovered by Percy Priest Lake…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Burt Reynolds, who starred in films including "Deliverance" and "Boogie Nights," has died at age 82, according to his agent. Check back for more information as it becomes available.
OOLTEWAH, Tenn. (AP) -- Investigators say bloody footprints at the scene of a killing in East Tennessee have led them to arrest a man whose shoes match the stained steps. News outlets cite court documents as saying the prints discovered…
NAHSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's largest health insurer will stop covering OxyContin prescriptions as part of an effort to combat opioid addiction. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's Natalie Tate tells The Tennessean the company will encourage doctors to recommend two alternatives…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen has written his city a six-figure check and removed his properties from a state program that provided him $520,600 in property tax breaks since 2011 for producing hay. The Tennessean…
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee middle school student says she found live insects in her school lunch. Madisonville Middle School seventh-grader Madison Smith told WBIR-TV that that the bugs she and other students saw in their granola "looked…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A lawyer says licensed funeral homes had no responsibility to know that the West Tennessee cemetery where they were sending cadavers to be interred was grossly mishandling burials even after it lost its registration. Defense attorney…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee jail has intercepted a letter from an inmate to a white supremacist group in which he confesses to killing a black man. The Daily News Journal reports 53-year-old John Daniel Carothers is charged with…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Non-citizens suspected of living in the U.S. illegally won't be held in a Tennessee jail past their scheduled release dates, despite federal requests to keep holding them. But the Commercial Appeal reports that the Shelby County…
CLEVELAND (AP) -- It took an undercover officer from a small village police department in Ohio to provide the final clues used to persuade a 73-year-old man to finally say he killed his wife of 53 years. Philip Snider pleaded…
WAYNESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee prison inmate has been charged in the death of his cellmate. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that 39-year-old Billy Earl McIllwain was transported to the Wayne County Jail on…
GREENBRIER, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says an undercover officer shot and injured a suspect who struck him with a vehicle. News outlets report Greenbrier police officers were conducting an undercover drug operation Friday when a subject…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is halting lane closures on interstates and state highways during the Labor Day Weekend. The state Department of Transportation says lane closures will pause from noon on Friday until 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Department Commissioner…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the shooting death of a pregnant woman and her fetus. News outlets report 28-year-old Brandon Scott Donaldson was sentenced Thursday following a re-trial…
GEORGETOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority says it'll build a $300 million system operations center in the state as part of upgrades to its power grid, but some residents have complained the federal utility hasn't been transparent. Aaron…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Senate Democratic Minority Leader Lee Harris is resigning to take office as a county mayor. In a letter to Gov. Bill Haslam, Harris said he would resign his legislative seat Friday. He takes office as…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say a pest infestation has closed a high school in Memphis for three consecutive days. Shelby County Schools tells news outlets in a statement that classes at Kirby High School would be canceled again Thursday.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State officials say a record-setting $20.8 billion was spent on tourism in Tennessee last year, a 6.3 percent increase from 2016. Gov. Bill Haslam revealed Tuesday that Tennessee brought in $1.8 billion in state and local…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a West Tennessee man has pleaded guilty in his 6-month-old daughter's death, which was initially believed to have been caused by a traffic accident. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Monday that 29-year-old…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority has announced a new study to help it decide the future of coal fired plants in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports TVA President Bill Johnson announced last week…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The first U.S. Senate debate between Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen and Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is set for Sept. 25. Blackburn's campaign announced Monday that she will participate in the debate at Cumberland University…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say an innocent man in Tennessee was shot and killed after he heard gunfire and opened the door of his apartment to look outside. Nashville Police say 59-year-old Glen Young was rushed to the hospital…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A sexual harassment lawsuit against a former school resource officer in Tennessee has been settled for $15,000. According to The Daily News Journal , lawsuits accuse John Heath in his former roles as a Blackman Middle…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and philanthropist J.R. "Pitt" Hyde III are this year's recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Awards. The Memphis-based museum announced in a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen and Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn will participate in a summit on the opioid crisis as they compete for a critical open U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee. The Healthy Tennessee event…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A family…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a security guard at a Memphis hospital had sex with a dead woman's body. News outlets reported Thursday that 23-year-old Cameron Wright is charged with abuse of a corpse. An affidavit says at least…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Witnesses will be taking the stand during a federal trial in a lawsuit about police surveillance of protesters in Memphis. The American Civil Liberties Union claims in its suit that the Memphis Police Department violated activists'…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee judge has ordered the suspect in a deadly Waffle House shooting be placed in a mental facility to treat his schizophrenia in hopes that he becomes fit to stand trial. On Wednesday, Davidson County…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The police union in Tennessee's largest city is suing to block a referendum establishing an oversight board. The Tennessean reports the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police filed a lawsuit Tuesday. Metro Charter rules stipulate measures need…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Tennessee are looking for two men who they believe could be responsible for a string of recent robberies and shootings in the Nashville area. News outlets report that a surveillance image released Friday shows…
BEAN STATION, Tenn. (AP) -- The owner of a Tennessee meatpacking plant where a federal immigration raid took more than 90 people into custody has agreed to plead guilty to employing unauthorized immigrants. News outlets report James Brantley also agreed…
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) -- Three family members have been sentenced to prison in Tennessee for defrauding federal health care programs of millions of dollars by selling back braces and power wheelchairs to people who did not need them in three…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The University of Tennessee's interim engineering dean is taking a position with the White House starting next week. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Lynne Parker will be assistant director for artificial intelligence for the Office of…
DETROIT (AP) -- Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal highway officials have unveiled a campaign aimed at combating drunk and drug-impaired driving. On Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the campaign that will run national television, radio and digital ads through Labor…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is set to execute a man for the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, in what would be the first time the state has applied the death penalty since 2009. 59-year-old inmate Billy…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police have begun arresting protesters who are blocking the entrances to the headquarters of private prison operator CoreCivic. The Tennessee-based company is one of the nation's largest private prison operators and also runs eight immigration detention centers…
