COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) - A prosecutor is asking pharmacy employees to be on the lookout for a 50-year-old Tennessee teacher who disappeared last month with a student. District Attorney Brent Cooper tells news outlets Tad Cummins takes medicine to control…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that had sought to make the names of people who refused to pay traffic camera fines confidential has been withdrawn for the year. WTVF-TV reported (http://bit.ly/2p7XWaW ) that the bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Andy…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a man who left a hospital before a warrant for his arrest in a fatal drunken diving incident could be issued. Media outlets report 30-year-old Alan Jacob Mogollon-Anaya faces several charges, including…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a man who was shot outside an auto parts plant in Tennessee in what appears to be the result of domestic violence has died. Cookeville Police said Wednesday that 20-year-old Tyler Stults died Tuesday…
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Federal prosecutors say Ancestry.com helped the family of a baby who died in Texas in 1972 discover that a Pennsylvania man had assumed the child's identity. Forty-four-year-old Jon Vincent was arrested in Lansdale, near Philadelphia, on Monday.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The sponsor of a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks in Tennessee has delayed the legislation for a week to give lawmakers a chance to read the opinion of the attorney general, who has called…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to boost transportation funding in large part through a hike in Tennessee's fuel taxes is headed for a full floor vote in the state Senate. The Senate Finance Committee voted 10-1 on…
PORTALES, N.M. (AP) - The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents has chosen a new president from among five finalists. The regents voted unanimously Wednesday to offer J.S. "Jeff" Elwell of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga the post. Portales radio…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - California's attorney general says North Carolina's repeal of a strongly criticized "bathroom bill" doesn't protect LGBT people from discrimination. Consequently, he says the country's most-populous state will continue its ban on taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An appeals court has ruled attorneys for former Tennessee football players A.J. Johnson and Michael Williams can issue subpoenas in an attempt to obtain social media communications from witnesses for their upcoming rape trials. The Tennessee…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it's investigating a shooting in Rutherford County involving a law enforcement officer. TBI spokeswoman Susan Niland said in a news release the shooting Wednesday afternoon involved a deputy from the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The National Labor Relations Board is leveling new charges that Nissan Motor Co. and a contract worker agency at Nissan's Mississippi plant are violating workers' rights. Filed March 31, the charges claim a supervisor illegally threatened…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has sided with police who found a methamphetamine lab on the property of man who posted a "no trespassing" sign near his driveway. A Supreme Court news release says the majority ruled…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam and his wife, Crissy, are hosting their seventh annual Easter egg role at the governor's mansion on Monday. About 50 children from Nashville Head Start centers are schedule to participate on the Tennessee…
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say Mt. Juliet High School has dismissed classes after receiving a suspicious package that contained powder and paper clips. Wilson County Schools spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson told media that a staff member who opened the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A 52-year-old man in prison for kidnapping and rape has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in the Chattanooga deaths of two brothers 20 years ago and a woman in 2004. District Attorney General Neal Pinkston's…
MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. (AP) - A former Tennessee mayor will not face criminal charges for unauthorized purchases following a state investigation. The Kingsport Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/2oYhuyi) that former Mount Carmel Mayor Larry Frost had been the subject of a state…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Twenty-four large companies would reap about half of the savings of a $113 million corporate tax cut proposed by Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration. The Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained a Haslam administration analysis that said…
CENTERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a Tennessee prison is on lockdown after three correctional officers were assaulted, including two who were stabbed, during a disturbance involving 16 inmates. The Tennessee Department of Correction says the inmates attacked the officers,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's attorney general is questioning the constitutionality of a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks. Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is the top law enforcement official in Tennessee, a conservative Republican state. He also…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A potential witness in the fatal shooting of a high school football player in East Tennessee has testified he became a target after he was questioned by Knoxville police in the case. The Knoxville News Sentinel…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that would require seat belts on new school buses in Tennessee continues to advance in the Legislature, but lawmakers remain skeptical about the restraints. Questions about the cost of the measure and concerns about…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville authorities have rescued more than 40 birds in a suspected cockfighting operation. Metro Animal Care and Control says it worked with Nashville police to remove the birds Tuesday with a search warrant of the property.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting a high school football player in East Tennessee is going on trial in another case in which he's charged with trying to murder a potential witness. The Knoxville News Sentinel…
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Susana Martinez's quick trip Tennessee has been derailed by weather. The governor's office confirmed that Martinez was unable to make the trip to Nashville to speak at a law enforcement conference hosted by the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A plan by Democrats to expand the Medicaid program in Tennessee appeared dead Wednesday after the sponsor of the measure pulled the bill. House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, told the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a proposal to eliminate jail time for carrying a gun in public without a state-issued permit. Under the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby, a violation would still be…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The U.N. human rights chief says he's "amazed" by President Donald Trump's support for torture in interrogations, calling the prospect of reviving torture in the United States "profoundly unsettling." On Wednesday at Vanderbilt University Law School…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - House Speaker Beth Harwell is working on an 11th-hour effort to make sweeping changes to fellow Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's road funding proposal to eliminate any increases in Tennessee's tax on gasoline. Harwell, who is mulling…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are considering legislation to amend the state constitution to say that God is the source of liberties for the state's citizens. The House Civil Justice Subcommittee voted Wednesday to advance the measure sponsored by…
FARRAGUT, Tenn. (AP) - Police in east Tennessee say the pilot of a paraglider has died and a passenger was injured in a weekend accident. Media outlets report the crash occurred Sunday in woods near Farragut. The Knox County Sheriff's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn has made a record donation to Lipscomb University. The Nashville school announced Shinn's donation of $15 million Monday. The gift will build a new events center for Lipscomb's College of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of his cellmate. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 36-year-old Danielle Smith, also known as Daniel Smith, is charged with…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen is expected to announce on Tuesday a new education plan that will emphasize more accountability, especially when it comes to teaching traditionally underserved kids. The plan outlines how Tennessee will comply…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Rep. Jerry Sexton is once again berating his colleagues on the House floor about what he calls rules violations and manipulations to advance Gov. Bill Haslam's transportation funding proposal that would include the state's first…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A deeply conservative state, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump and his tough stance on immigration. And yet, some Republican lawmakers are pushing a proposal that would allow public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - A Williamson County jury has convicted a man of human trafficking in what's believed to be the first trial of its kind in the county. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2nS8Ykq) 26-year-old Eric Demarco Hamilton of Flint, Michigan…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A legal fight over the estate of actor-politician Fred Thompson has ended. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2n55rSE ) that Dan Thompson and Tony Thompson dropped their lawsuit that claimed their father's widow, Jeri Thompson, had made changes…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state Senate has voted to double the amount of money candidates for the upper chamber of Tennessee General Assembly can raise for their campaigns. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2oVixyv ) that the measure…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The latest effort to end Tennessee's open primary system has been withdrawn for the year. The bill sponsored by Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet and fellow Republican Rep. Mark Pody of Lebanon was removed from…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new plan released by the Tennessee Department of Education will make schools more accountable and give parents a better idea of how to evaluate their neighborhood schools. Under the plan released Tuesday, every public school…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge struck down a law regulating outdoor advertising in Tennessee, citing it as an unconstitutional restriction of free speech. The Commercial Appeal reports (http://memne.ws/2nFWLP0 ) that U.S. District Judge Jon P. McCalla sided with…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Records show an off-duty deputy who was fatally shot by police in Tennessee had violated excessive force policies three times in two years. Media cited the personnel file of Hamilton County Deputy Daniel Hendrix in reporting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill that would require seat belts on Tennessee school buses has advanced barely as a child who was injured in a deadly Chattanooga bus crash looked on. Canasia Williams, an 11-year-old fifth-grader at Woodmore Elementary,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Activists claiming an imbalance in economic and social equality plan rallies across the United States on the 49th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Black Lives Matter and the Fight…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A plan by a Tennessee nonprofit to house the homeless by building a village of micro homes near a church has prompted some neighbors to picket in protest. WTVF-TV reports protesters picketed property owned by Glencliff…
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking public comment on the environmental impact of selling an unfinished nuclear plant to a company that will make it operational. TVA announced Friday that it was seeking comment through May…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An embattled Tennessee judge who is facing charges after allegations surfaced that he helped a woman with her legal troubles in exchange for sex has stepped down from the bench. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2ns5GTU ) reports that…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A former Memphis police officer convicted of killing her wife in a domestic dispute has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 36-year-old Jaselyn Grant was sentenced by a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee is being sued by two trade groups seeking to block a requirement to collect state sales taxes for online purchases. The lawsuit has been filed by the American Catalog Mailers Association of America and the…
