NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed legislation requiring words in Tennessee law to be interpreted as having their "natural and ordinary meaning." Gay rights groups call it a sneaky way of denying same-sex couples the legal…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican state senator from Tennessee picked by President Donald Trump to be Army secretary has withdrawn from consideration. Mark Green steps aside amid intensifying criticism over his remarks about LGBT Americans and Muslims. Green is the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation has given $10,000 each to nearly 900 families displaced by deadly wildfires in Tennessee last year. The singer said in a statement that the final distribution of checks was made this week…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee tourism officials say 110 million people visited the state last year, a 4.4 percent jump from 2015. The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development says the research from DK Shifflet shows Tennessee is a top-10 state…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Health officials say four cases of mumps have been identified in the Memphis area since March. Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said Thursday that it is not unexpected to have mumps cases in the…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - An East Tennessee official says a wildfire there has been fully contained after firefighters from about 20 departments battled it for hours. Sevier County spokesman Perrin Anderson told the Knoxville News Sentinel the fire was 100…
MILLERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of a 16-month-old child. News outlets report 24-year-old Kortney Stanciel was initially arrested April 16 for aggravated child abuse. Millersville detective Don Long says…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee have charged a man and a teenage girl who was the subject of an Amber alert in the fatal shooting of a gas station attendant. Nashville police said in a statement 28-year-old Daniel…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The House has given final approval to a bill that would allow Tennessee drivers to choose license plates with the phrase "In God We Trust" on them. The chamber voted 85-0 to approve the bill sponsored…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee judge facing federal charges has entered a plea of not guilty to federal charges that stemmed from an investigation that he helped a woman with her legal troubles in exchange for sex. Documents show…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Nashville bars could serve alcohol for 23 hours a day in a bill passed by the Tennessee Senate. Senators voted 21-5 vote Thursday to let The Diner in Nashville's Broadway entertainment district and the Scoreboard…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Deep divisions among majority Republicans in the Tennessee House are throwing a monkey wrench into the state's $37 billion annual spending plan. A series of amendments introduced mostly by opponents of a gas tax hike that…
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) -- A jailed Tennessee sheriff has been sentenced to about four years in prison for charges related to profiting from the sale of electronic cigarettes to inmates. The Tennessean reports that 41-year-old former Rutherford County sheriff…
RINGGOLD, Ga. (AP) - A small cluster of privately owned treatment centers have sprung up in northwest Georgia in recent years for heroin and prescription painkiller addicts. And most of the patients aren't even from the state. Relaxed rules in…
DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) - Finnish tiremaker Nokian plans to build a new $360 million plant in Tennessee, creating 400 new jobs. State economic development officials said Wednesday the project in Dayton represents the largest investment in the history of southeastern…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is reporting that it yielded $313 million in net income for the first half of 2017, a $32 million boost compared to the same period in 2016. In a news release Tuesday,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee proposal would give cities and counties an ultimatum: buy metal detectors, hire security guards and check bags at many public buildings, parks and buses, or let handgun permit holders bring in their guns. The…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new study estimates the Tennessee Valley Authority's managed river system created an $11.9 billion economic impact in the Tennessee Valley last year. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2oVYzI9 ) that the University of Tennessee…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee police say seven bounty hunters and bail bondsmen have been indicted on first-degree murder and other charges in the killing of an unarmed man and the wounding of another. Authorities say 24-year-old Jalen Johnson and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks if a doctor determines the fetus is viable through required testing. The legislation that includes felony penalties for doctors cleared the House in a 68-18…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say they have arrested a man who is a suspected of fatally shooting a gas station attendant while on the run with a teenage girl. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 28-year-old Daniel…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill that would allow minors who send sexually explicit photos of themselves to others to face far less serious consequences than they do now. Under current law, juveniles who email…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's top Democrat says he'll vote against President Donald Trump's pick for Army secretary over the disparaging comments the nominee has made about LGBT people and other groups of Americans. Chuck Schumer of New York says…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A legislative push to preserve the "natural and ordinary meaning" of words in Tennessee law has prompted a visit to the state Capitol by Jim Obergefell, whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors in Tennessee say four family members have been convicted of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme centered on buying and selling gold and silver coins. The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday that Larry Bates; his…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee proposal would give cities and counties an ultimatum: buy metal detectors, hire security guards and check bags at many public buildings, parks and buses, or let handgun permit holders bring in their guns. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence a man received for killing the mother of his three children and dismembering her body in Memphis in 2008. Court documents say James Hawkins stabbed the woman…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Republican Party has hired a new executive director. Chairman Scott Golden announced Monday that Michael Sullivan, who had worked for the Republican National Committee in Iowa, is returning to Tennessee to take up the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two small Mississippi hospitals have been sold as a large Tennessee-based company tries to pare down hospitals to reduce debt. Community Health Systems said Monday that it completed the sale of a 95-bed hospital in Amory…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A company that sells spa products is set to receive at least $300,000 in Virginia grants to expand its operations in Washington County. Gov. Terry McAuliffe's office recently announced that Universal Companies would expand its distribution…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Tennessee say a man has died after drowning in South Holston Lake. Kingsport Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/2qysToH) that the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that officers responding to the scene…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jury selection is underway in the third trial of a woman accused of killing her husband and staging his death to look like a suicide. Jury selection began Monday in the trial of 68-year-old Raynella Dossett…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee House has cleared a bill that would let people use silencers on their guns. The House's 74-18 vote Monday evening sends the bill to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam. The Senate approved the bill in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers plan to pass the state's annual $37 billion budget this week. House and Senate members are required by the state constitution to pass a balanced spending plan every year, and enacting that legislation is…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Baptist Health Systems and the larger Baptist Memorial Health Care of Memphis, Tennessee, have completed a merger, creating the largest hospital group in Mississippi. Executives of the two systems announced the merger Monday, saying it…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man charged with killing a police officer in Tennessee has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 56 years. News outlets report Brian Keith Stalans entered the plea to premeditated…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Tennessee lab testing company has agreed to pay $900,000 to the federal government to settle allegations that it performed diagnostic tests that were not medically necessary. The agreement between the Poplar Healthcare and the federal…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has told a group of graduating students at Fisk University to mobilize against prejudice and inequality. Pelosi did not mention President Donald Trump by name. However, she said the election showed…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Senate has voted to pass a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks if doctors determine the fetus is viable. The ban would not apply in medical emergencies or if the mother faces…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A resolution calling for the body of President James K. Polk to be exhumed from the grounds of Tennessee Capitol has been scheduled for consideration in the state House before the Legislature adjourns for the year.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Democratic state senator from Goodlettsville has been arrested on a felony charge of sexual battery. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2pz78Wt ) that Joe Haynes, a former Senate Democratic Caucus chairman who retired from the Legislature…
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) - A body found last week has been positively identified as that of a 14-year-old hiker who went missing more than two weeks ago while in the bottom of the Grand Canyon during a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee lawmakers plan to pass the state's annual $37 billion budget this week. House and Senate members are required by the state constitution to pass a balanced spending plan every year, and enacting that legislation is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Legislature has passed a bill that will make it easier for people convicted of lower-level offenses to get their criminal records wiped clean. The measure allows a person who has no more than two convictions…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennesseans who have unused prescription drugs they no longer need can safely dispose of them Saturday at locations all around the state. It's part of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration's 13th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Chattanooga sandwich shop has been shuttered by a judge's order over claims that it has become a hotbed of crime. According to the Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2pn49QV ), Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Tom Greenholtz…
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - The final person associated with a multi-state jewelry store heist scheme is going to prison. A judge in Panama City sentenced 36-year-old Lewis Jones III on Thursday to 32 years in federal prison for taking…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An ex-convict facing federal charges in the fatal shooting of a Tennessee police officer has changed his plea to guilty. Tremaine Wilbourn had pleaded not guilty to charges filed in December 2015 in the killing of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Not long after seeing fellow Republicans in the Legislature reject his effort to expand Medicaid, Gov. Bill Haslam was touring the state to pitch another politically difficult proposal to boost funding for roads and bridges. Despite…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee has selected Ryan Robinson as the university's vice chancellor for communications. Robinson will take over as the school's chief communications and marketing officer May 17. His role will include overseeing the office of communications and…
