GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- A retail partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park says it had its second-best year for sales and best year for membership income in 2017. The Great Smoky Mountains Association operates the park's visitor center bookstores…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Predators gave Nashville a chance to give the man who wrestled an AR-15 rifle away from a gunman at a Waffle House a standing ovation. James Shaw Jr. met with Nashville coach Peter Laviolette before…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Two law enforcement veterans have been nominated to be U.S. marshals in Tennessee. President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Denny Wade King to serve in the Middle District of Tennessee and Barrett W. Rich in the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee education officials say a dump truck has cut a major fiber cable and temporarily affected internet connectivity during student online testing, which has already experienced problems. Department of Education spokeswoman Sara Gast says the main…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee runner Scott Wietecha has clinched his 6th-straight marathon win at the St. Jude Rock 'n' Roll Nashville Marathon and ½ Marathon, an event that drew about 30,000 registered runners across multiple events. A news release…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce has spread to three more states. Health officials on Friday said they now have reports of 98 cases in 22 states, with the addition of Mississippi, Tennessee and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials at Andrew Jackson's historic home in Tennessee say the seventh president's tomb has been vandalized and marred by profanities. Andrew Jackson Foundation President and CEO Howard Kittell said the vandalism was discovered early Friday at…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) -- Hundreds of people have gathered at a church visitation service in Tennessee for a 21-year-old student killed in the weekend shooting at a Waffle House. A line of people who came to greet the family members…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce has spread to three more states. Health officials on Friday said they now have reports of 98 cases in 22 states, with the addition of Tennessee, Mississippi and…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee lawmakers have concluded their annual legislative session. The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned late Wednesday after passing legislation aimed to shield teachers from the recent student testing snafu. Lawmakers were at an impasse for seven-plus…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee lawmakers have passed legislation to require state and local law enforcement to detain immigrants for deportation at the request of federal officials without requiring warrants or probable cause. The Republican-led House and Senate passed the…
SALIDA, Colorado (AP) -- The co-owner of a Colorado crane company that once employed the Waffle House shooting suspect said they urged the Secret Service to try to help him after he was arrested at the White House last year.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Education Lottery has a new game coming soon and is looking for photos of dogs to put on the tickets. The lottery's "Dog Days of Summer" Facebook contest began Monday and runs through May…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An ex-Tennessee school bus driver who was at the wheel in a wreck that killed six children has been sentenced to four years in prison for criminally negligent homicide. Media reported that a Chattanooga judge sentenced…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Nashville judge has revoked the bond of a man accused of killing four people at a Waffle House restaurant. Court records show that a judge struck the $2 million bond for Travis Reinking until a hearing…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Republican-led Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that calls for a monument to unborn children to be placed on the state Capitol grounds. The Senate's 23-3 vote Monday sends the legislation back to the House,…
HOUSTON (AP) -- A family spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife Barbara. Jim McGrath says on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Two young children have been killed in a townhouse fire in Memphis. Memphis Fire Lt. Wayne Cook tells news outlets that the children killed in the Saturday fire were between 2 and 3 years old. An…
UPDATE: The man wanted in a deadly weekend shooting at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville has been captured, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. See the updated story here. Earlier story: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police are…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee officials say the state has received $26 million from the federal government to build a new veterans home. Gov. Bill Haslam says the grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will be used to…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A rare vintage poster of a 1955 Elvis Presley show in North Carolina has sold at auction for more than double what was expected. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the poster of show on…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Nashville say four people are dead after a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant early Sunday. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department says the gunman was a white man with short hair who was wearing…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee House has passed a bill that calls for a monument to unborn children to be placed on the state capitol grounds. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, private funds would be…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say one person has been killed in a single-engine plane crash in Tennessee. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a two-seat plane crashed near an airstrip while taking off at the municipal airport in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennesseans will be able to buy liquor on Sunday after Gov. Bill Haslam signed a law allowing seven-day sales of wines and spirits. The law allows liquor and wine sales every day, with the exception of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee House has passed a bill that calls for a monument to unborn children to be placed on the state capitol grounds. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, private funds would be…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Senate Democrat says he now supports making pot legal under federal law. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer says he'll introduce a bill taking marijuana off the federal list of controlled substances — in effect decriminalizing…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a Tennessee man who dressed as Spider-Man and washed windows at a children's hospital has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison on child pornography charges. A statement from U.S. Attorney…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State lawmakers have spent the afternoon grilling Tennessee's education commissioner over a new problem with the state's assessment test. One lawmaker called for Education Commissioner Candice McQueen to step down over the latest debacle with the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a West Tennessee man faces a murder charge after he sold heroin laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl to an acquaintance who died. The Shelby County District Attorney's Office says the case of Blake…
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former first lady Barbara Bush has died. She was 92. A family spokesman says she died Tuesday. The snowy-haired Mrs. Bush was one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's student assessment test has had more problems, and state lawmakers are fuming. State education officials announced on Tuesday that there appears to have been a deliberate attack on the computer system of the company that…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The track team from a Kentucky high school where a deadly shooting happened got a warm welcome at a Tennessee restaurant. The manager at an Olive Garden in Chattanooga decided to cover the team's food bill…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A bill that would take coal mining regulation away from the federal government and put it back in the hands of the state of Tennessee is now headed to the governor. The measure was sponsored by…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Two police officers in Tennessee have been charged with helping transport what they thought was a large amount of heroin. Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings said Friday that 41-year-old Kevin Coleman and 25-year-old Terrion Bryson have…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Twenty of Tennessee's state parks are holding public meetings where community members can comment on current and future park improvement projects. State officials say the parks plan a series of public meetings on April 19 and…
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) -- A month has passed since a 12-year-old boy hanged himself after being bullied at school in Mississippi. While Andy Leach's family waits for answers, experts say the school district's bullying policy lacks key elements, such as…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Nearly 170 years after President James K. Polk died, the Tennessee Legislature is urging that his remains be exhumed and taken to a fourth resting place — but it might take a while longer before the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has announced that more than 10,000 adults have applied to Tennessee Reconnect, the state's new program that allows adults, no matter their age, to go to community college or technical schools tuition-free. Haslam…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill that would allow seven-day liquor and wine sales, despite opposition from religious conservatives. If signed by the governor, liquor stores would be able to open for business on Sunday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says he is donating money to another Tennessee Republican's campaign to succeed him. News outlets report Corker tweeted his support…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Texas man identified by police as a suspect in the slayings of a woman and her young daughter has been captured in Middle Tennessee. Thirty-seven-year-old Paige Terrell Lawyer was being held Monday at the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Civil rights activists say a dramatic immigration raid at a Tennessee meat processing plant may be the biggest employment crackdown under President Donald Trump's administration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Tammy Spicer says in a…
HUNTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man will serve six years in the death of an Indiana man who was dragged, then run over by an SUV. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports a judge declined to give 45-year-old Billy Jason…
DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) -- The father of a missing 5-year-old boy in Tennessee has been charged with his son's murder. Authorities said Saturday that Joseph Ray Daniels was arrested and charged with one count of criminal homicide. The Tennessee Bureau…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill that overturns some local short-term rental bans following a debate that lasted more than two hours with lawmakers arguing about property rights versus local control. Lawmakers from Nashville were…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An ex-Tennessee teacher who fled with a 15-year-old student last year and set off a 39-day nationwide manhunt is scheduled to plead guilty. A document filed by his lawyer last week in federal court in Nashville…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- As the world prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder, the milestone coincides with a resurgence of white supremacy, the continued shootings of unarmed black men and a parade of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- One of the lead sponsors of a medical marijuana bill in Tennessee has withdrawn the measure after telling lawmakers that the legislation has been so watered down that passing it would actually be more harmful, especially…
