ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - Two men have been arrested on charges of having sex with underage girls, following a human trafficking investigation. The Johnson City Press reports (http://bit.ly/2pkLEi9 ) that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation charged 26-year-old Robelio E. Flores-Rivera…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The public radio reporter fired by the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga has amended her lawsuit against the school, adding Chancellor Steven Angle as an individual defendant. Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2qdQF9v ) Jacqui Helbert says university…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A proposal that would set up a school voucher pilot program in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is dead for the year. On Wednesday, the bill by Republican Rep. Harry Brooks of Knoxville was delayed from…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee bill to require seat belts in new school buses bought after July 2019 is in budget limbo while lawmakers examine the cost and whether the state will cover it. The House Finance, Ways &…
SPRING CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Valley Authority security officers at nuclear power plants will soon be prohibited from carrying handguns. WRCB-TV reports that the measure will be in place throughout the system by the end of the year. TVA…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Local and state leaders in Tennessee are working to create a separate school district to help improve low-performing schools. The Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2pwRtK4) reports that education leaders hope to launch Tennessee's first "partnership district." The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee House panel has voted to make the state commit to cover the whole cost before a proposed regulations to require seat belts in new…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee immigrant students have handed lawmakers paper tombstone cutouts that described their lost hopes and dreams to protest the defeat of a bill to grant them in-state college tuition. A handful of students showed up in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a former executive of a now-defunct Franklin-based bank has pleaded guilty to lying to federal regulators. The office of Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith said 73-year-old Lamar Cox of Nashville pleaded guilty to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been seriously injured after a train hit his car and dragged it more than 300 yards along Highway 70 in a neighborhood near Nashville. WSMV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2oGUZxB ) that there are no railroad…
ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) - A rural mountain community in Tennessee has gathered more than 100 signatures on a petition for a cellphone tower. The Johnson City Press reports (http://bit.ly/2oH3Hvy ) that Limestone Cove resident Karen Lance told the Unicoi County…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A family is praising a Tennessee firefighter for catching their infant son during an apartment blaze.. News outlets report that fire crews responded Sunday morning to a fire at the apartment complex. Knoxville senior firefighter Eric…
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee special needs teacher's aide is facing charges after being accused of biting a student on the playground. The Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2p1LqMa ) 32-year-old Jenny Price has been charged with assaulting a…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say two men were shot, one fatally, during a confrontation with bail bondsmen in a Walmart parking lot. The Leaf Chronicle (http://leafne.ws/2pi8xmp ) quotes family members as saying 24-year-old Jalen Johnson died Sunday…
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) - Court documents show that a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her teacher had endured months of abuse by her mother. The mother is scheduled to appear in court next month to face five…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's proposed budget amendment includes $50 million for a new Tennessee State Library and Archives building. Finance Commissioner Larry Martin said Tuesday that the combined $40 million from the state and $10 million…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee attorney general's office says it would defend an amended abortion bill in court if it becomes law, despite previously calling its key requirements "constitutionally suspect." Attorney General Herbert Slatery's spokesman says "the law to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former Boy Scout leader in Nashville has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing several boys. News outlets report that 44-year-old Darrell G. Fisher entered guilty pleas to four counts of sexual battery by an authority figure…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee House has passed a bill that would allow two Nashville bars to serve alcohol for 23 hours a day. The House approved the bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Sanderson of Kenton on Monday. It…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee House has cleared legislation to publicly disclose Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probes into deaths from officer shootings. The House voted 91-0 Monday to open the investigative records into deaths from a shooting by law…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A fire at an apartment complex in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has left residents of 12 units displaced. News outlets report that the Sunday fire is under investigation. Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue spokeswoman Ashley McDonald says the fire…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry says she isn't interested in a plan by activists to create a civilian review board for the Metro Nashville Police Department. WPLN-FM reports (http://bit.ly/2q6WsgS) there have been demands to create a civilian…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say heavy rain that fell over the weekend has caused road flooding and school closures in Middle and East Tennessee. Media and weather officials report that more…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee House voted Monday to put the finishing touch on months of work on Gov. Bill Haslam's push to increase the gas tax to fund roadwork and cut other taxes. With a 67-21 final favorable…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An Oak Ridge man is the first person in Tennessee since 1989 to be charged with second-degree murder related to causing a death while driving. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2pY6G6J) 26-year-old Ralpheal Coffey is accused…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A free-market think tank is suing Nashville's government over a new policy to expand affordable housing. The Beacon Center of Tennessee, alongside Southeastern Legal Foundation, filed Monday's lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court. According to The…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee local official has been arrested after police said he choked his girlfriend at a fast food restaurant. Memphis police said Monday that Shelby County Commissioner Justin Ford has been charged with aggravated assault and…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Court documents say a Tennessee teacher charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old student and driving her to California had planned to take the girl to…
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) -- People interested in astronomy and the total solar eclipse coming up this summer can learn more at an event this week at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. West Kentucky Amateur Astronomers will host…
SEATTLE (AP) -- From Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, marijuana enthusiasts are observing their 4/20 holiday with public smoke-outs, parties and, yes, great deals on weed. The annual celebration of cannabis…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Knox County Sheriff's Office has asked for an additional 900 computer tablets for jail inmates after they found success with a 300-tablet pilot program. News outlets report the Knox County Commission on Monday tentatively approved…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The crew chief who died in a Black Hawk crash earlier this week was afraid of heights, but his mother says that fear disappeared in the helicopter. Twenty-two-year-old Spc. Jeremy Tomlin was on a UH-60 Black Hawk…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a Jefferson City man faces an indictment alleging he came at sheriff's deputies with a knife before one officer shot and injured him. A TBI news release says 56-year-old James…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Rep. Brenda Gilmore has announced she will run for the Nashville seat currently held by longtime Sen. Thelma Harper, a fellow Democrat. Harper, who has served in the Senate since 1989, says it's "no secret"…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a former sheriff's office recruit has pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run collision that killed two pedestrians who were changing a tire on Interstate 40 in Memphis. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 27-year-old…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - The Williamson County School board has approved the district's decision to eliminate class rank in the face of its declining importance in college admissions. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2pQTqgJ ) that the board approved the amended policy…
NEW MARKET, Tenn. (AP) - A longtime volunteer fire chief has been indicted on felony theft charges related to misuse of departmental funds. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2pfNaTc) that 74-year-old Frank Solomon turned himself in to the Jefferson County…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The owner of a landscaping company that is accused in a lawsuit of cheating foreign workers out of money has vehemently denied the allegations. Burke Skelton, the owner of Murfreesboro-based Outdoors Unlimited, also said that he…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A prosecutor has asked for more information in the investigation of a fatal police shooting involving a white officer and an armed African-American man. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced last week that it had finished…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Bill Anderson, who played on two NFL championship teams with the Green Bay Packers as part of an eight-year NFL career, has died. He was 80. Adam Starkey, funeral director at Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel,…
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Hundreds of Elvis Presley artifacts and memorabilia are still being held by a Las Vegas casino, a year after the King's estate filed a lawsuit to get those valuables back from a short-lived exhibit. Westgate Las…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that would ban some abortions at 20 weeks has passed in a Senate committee, despite Tennessee's attorney general calling the measure "constitutionally suspect." Doctors who violated the law could be subject to criminal prosecution…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Senate has approved Gov. Bill Haslam's road funding proposal, which includes the state's first gas tax increase since 1989. Senators voted 25-6 on Wednesday for the Republican governor's roads package, which also cuts other taxes.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's road and bridge funding bill is headed for a showdown in the Tennessee House on Wednesday. The sticking point is the governor's proposal to pay for new projects in large part through…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State tourism officials have launched a new personalized website to help travelers plan their trips to Tennessee. The state Department of Tourist Development announced the revamped tourism website, www.TNVacation.com , on Tuesday. The department says the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Speaker Beth Harwell is calling for civility between her Republican colleagues as the Tennessee House prepares for a contentious vote on Gov. Bill Haslam's transportation funding proposal on Wednesday. Harwell urged Republican members to "be kind…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to ban open alcohol bottles or cans in vehicles traveling on Tennessee roads has failed for the year. Tennessee currently bans drivers from drinking alcohol while at the wheel, but does…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a former Tennessee police officer has been charged with pawning two weapons issued by his department. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Robert Jason Gann has been indicted on charges of theft and official…
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man who led police on an eight-day manhunt after he took his niece out of a school and then disappeared with her has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - The Murfreesboro City Council has issued a moratorium on new site plans for new and used car lots until traffic safety requirement are improved. The Daily News Journal reports (http://on.dnj.com/2ojrRw1) that the dictate doesn't govern existing…
