NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam is scheduled to deliver his final State of the State speech. The Republican will address the state House and Senate Monday at 6 p.m. The event will be streamed online. Haslam will wrap…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has established a commission on pain and addiction medicine education, marking one of the first moves in his $30 million plan to combat opioid abuse. A news release from the Republican governor…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee lawmaker has dropped a push to require prominent labeling of driver's licenses held by people without permanent residency status. In a House subcommittee Wednesday, Rep. John Ragan said his bill will no longer require…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting of a man by a Shelby County sheriff's deputy. TBI spokesman Micheal Jones told reporters the shooting happened Tuesday after an officer noticed a car that was…
UPDATE: Gov. Matt Bevin says two people have been killed and 19 injured in a shooting at a high school in southwest Kentucky. Of the 19 injured, Bevin says 14 of those were gunshot wounds. Speaking at a news conference, Bevin…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam is touting a $30 million plan that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement to attack an opioid epidemic that kills three Tennesseans a day. The Republican released details in a news conference…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is slated to unveil a plan to combat the state's opioid epidemic. The Republican governor plans to release the details in a news conference Monday alongside Senate Speaker Randy McNally, House Speaker…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Airbnb will now be able to collect and pay sales tax on behalf of its renters in Tennessee. The Tennessean reports Airbnb announced an agreement with the Tennessee Department of Revenue on Wednesday that will allow…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that Tennessee won't have to recount votes for a state constitutional amendment passed in 2014 that allows tougher abortion restrictions. A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion Tuesday says…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- So long, Emma. The name Ava is now the most popular for girls born in Tennessee. Tennessee's Department of Health released Thursday its list of the most popular names for babies born in the state in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee board is scheduled to review proposed nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. The Tennessee State Review Board said Wednesday it is scheduled to meet Jan. 10 in Nashville to vote on eight…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man who spent more than 31 years in prison before new DNA evidence led to his rape and burglary conviction being overturned is asking the state for $1 million in damages. The Tennessean reports…
NEW JOHNSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot by police responding to a domestic violence call. News outlets report New Johnsonville police responded to a call Monday morning and found 41-year-old Charles Dile…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Items associated with Elvis Presley are on the auction block, including the rocker's rocking chair from the Jungle Room at Graceland. Graceland said in a news release the wood and maroon vinyl rocking chair is estimated…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The state attorney general says Tennessee's public colleges and universities can't be left to decide whether to offer in-state tuition breaks for students whose parents brought or kept them in the country illegally. Attorney General Herbert…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission has voted on party lines to undo sweeping Obama-era "net neutrality" rules that guaranteed equal access to internet. The agency's Democratic commissioners dissented in the 3-2 vote Thursday. The FCC's new rules…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A new study says four Tennessee metro areas are among the top 10 metro areas for job growth in the Southeast so far this year. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a study of employment…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State officials are planning a groundbreaking ceremony for the new state Library and Archives building. According to a news release from the Tennessee secretary of state, the event will take place Monday afternoon at the future…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee has hired Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt as its head coach, capping a tumultuous search that cost an athletic director his job as the Volunteers attempt to recover from one of their most disappointing seasons.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal officials say a $5,000 reward is available for information about who stole 18 guns from a Middle Tennessee gun store. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An analysis has found that substance abuse annually costs Tennessee more than $2 billion, with most of it attributed to lost income from people who've fallen out of the labor market. The Tennessean reports Teresa Waters,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A retired Tennessee Highway Patrol sergeant was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to transporting a woman into the country illegally. U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran's office says Ronald Edward Strickland was sentenced Wednesday…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- A year after deadly wildfires broke out in Tennessee, members of the community have come together to remember the 14 people whose lives were lost. Nicole Ogle, chairwoman of a memorial committee, announced a permanent memorial…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal utility says its biologists have discovered a new species of fish in streams in Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Authority says the fish species, Percina apina, lives in the Duck River tributary streams in Middle…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says he doesn't anticipate any imminent change in the state's use of private prisons after an audit found some of those facilities were understaffed and the staffing information they provided was at…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Four of the seven major candidates for Tennessee governor are declining to release details of their federal income tax returns. The Tennessean newspaper asked five Republicans and two Democrats in the race for copies of their…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- More than 40 pounds of marijuana have been discovered inside luggage at Tennessee's Nashville International Airport. WZTV-TV reports that an affidavit says airport police seized 44 pounds of marijuana from luggage unclaimed at a carousel Tuesday…
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- Wildlife officials in East Tennessee say four hunters have been charged with illegally importing carcasses of white-tailed deer with chronic wasting disease into the state. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says the hunters were charged in…
SPARTA, Tenn. (AP) -- A Middle Tennessee judge who offered inmates less jail time if they voluntarily underwent birth control procedures has been publicly reprimanded by state judicial regulators. The Tennessean reports White County judge Sam Benningfield received a Nov.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee state representatives and their staffs are being required to attend sexual harassment training led by the YWCA. The Tennessean reports House Speaker Beth Harwell, a Nashville Republican who is running for governor next year, has…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Other killers snuffed out far more lives than Charles Manson did in 1969. Yet Manson has endured for nearly a half century as the personification of evil, even in an age in which mass shootings leave…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama "Touched by an Angel," has died at age 86. A family…
TELLICO PLAINS, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in East Tennessee say a man accidentally shot himself and his wife while showing off his gun in church. Tellico Plains Police Chief Russ Parks told The Knoxville News Sentinel that members of the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Taylor Swift has left some fans shocked by dropping by a Tennessee Target store to pick up a few things, including her new album. The Nashville Tennessean reports the superstar singer chronicled her Target run through…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will honor one of its medical workers who helped tend to a minister's injuries from a Tennessee church shooting in September. A department news release says the ceremony for Tennessee…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say someone shot into an SUV in Memphis, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring a 12-year-old boy along with a woman. News outlets report the shooting happened Monday afternoon. Memphis police say the 12-year-old is…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say 10 people have been charged with conspiring to sell methamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs in West Tennessee. The U.S. attorney's office said Monday that agents with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies…
ELLENWOOD, Ga. (AP) -- A Tennessee family has been reunited with their rodeo horses that were stolen in Georgia before a competition. WSB-TV reports the horses and trailer stolen from one Walmart in Henry County, Ga., on Friday were found…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A jury has been seated in the fraud trial of four former executives at the truck stop chain controlled by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. The trial comes…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Democrats have voted to support resolutions calling for the legalization of medical marijuana, wider health care coverage and a $15 minimum wage. The state executive committee passed the resolutions aimed at expressing the positions of…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee tourism officials have installed viewfinders at three scenic spots, including an overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains, to help colorblind people see the fall foliage burst with color for the first time. The viewfinders that…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Highway Patrol is ramping up its enforcement efforts for Halloween. THP commander Col. Tracey Trott says troopers will conduct traffic enforcement saturations and checkpoints throughout the evening. Seventeen people were killed in Halloween crashes…
OOLTEWAH, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee man has been accused of firing a shotgun at passing cars on an interstate overpass. Chattanooga police said in a tweet that Hamilton County sheriff's deputies arrested 33-year-old Matthew Derek Henry on Thursday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Taking on a crowd of jeering union workers, standing up to a charismatic Democratic opponent on the man's home turf or lecturing upper management of one of the world's largest corporations, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker has…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music even as it honored the grand, good-humored tradition of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say four industrial sites in Tennessee will receive help from the state to make them more attractive to companies looking to expand or relocate. Department of Economic and Community Development officials say the Select Tennessee…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A detective says the man accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding six other people at a Tennessee church told him he heard voices and had visions. In Davidson…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man who pleaded guilty last year to stealing more than $415,000 from the church where he served as treasurer has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Constantine D. Christodoulou says he…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A man has pleaded guilty to raping four women more than 16 years ago. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Wednesday that Tony Sea was sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility for…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Kentucky man has been arrested after a 17-hour standoff with police in Clarksville. The Leaf-Chronicle reports that Clarksville police arrested 50-year-old Darren Vance of Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday morning with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in…
