NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The conservative group Americans for Tax Reform is informing Tennessee lawmakers that a vote for Gov. Bill Haslam's road funding proposals will not violate their pledges to not raise taxes. The Republican governor's plan would include…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from three Tennessee death-row inmates who say they should not be executed because they are intellectually disabled. The justices on Monday left in place state court rulings upholding the death sentences…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - States are finding out the hard way that closed prisons can be a tough sell. A recent national study found at least 94 state correctional facilities have been shut down since 2011, and only a few…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's general fund tax collections were $8.4 million above projections in February, bringing the state's surplus revenues to $491 million through the first seven months of the budget year. Sales tax collections came in at $33…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has made a decision that could make it easier for a divorced parent to move out of state with the kids, even if the other parent objects to the children relocating. This…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Ten candidates have registered to run for a state House seat vacated when former Republican state Rep. Mark Lovell resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation. The Shelby County Election Commission said the candidates met Thursday's deadline…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee elementary school worker has been charged with stealing more than $60,000 from the school's child care program. According to the Times Free-Press (http://bit.ly/2mOrhGG ), the sheriff's office says 49-year-old Sharon Wynn turned herself in…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Eastern Tennessee officials are going to hire a firm to look into the handling of the fires that tore through Gatlinburg and killed 14 people last year. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2mY2QZ6) reports the firm will…
GRAYSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The former police chief of Graysville is back behind bars after the state appellate court denied the appeal he filed after pleading guilty to two felony counts of official misconduct. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2niqArL…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - President Donald Trump's proposal to eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission has alarmed many throughout the region that have relied on the federal agency for a job. Crystal Snyder was trying to figure out life as a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of a former schoolteacher who is alleged to have kidnapped a 15-year-old student is pleading with her husband to bring the girl home. WSMV-TV (http://bit.ly/2mYs2ic ) reports that on Friday Jill Cummins beseeched her…
LAKELAND, Tenn.-Authorities say two sheriff's deputies fatally shot a woman who pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at them in a residential neighborhood in western Tennessee. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh DeVine said 59-year-old Nancy Jane…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville police department has requested $50.1 million so that all 1,400 of the city's officers can wear body cameras and all police cruisers will be fitted with dash cams. There has been a growing chorus…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority says its seasonal campgrounds are ready to open. The TVA says this year's camping season started Wednesday and continues through Nov. 15. Six campgrounds are located at TVA dams around the state.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee legislative leaders are moving forward with a review of exemptions to the state's open records laws. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2n0EMFh ) that Senate Speaker Randy McNally and House Speaker Beth Harwell sent a letter Monday…
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials in Hawkins County are deciding whether or not to back a resolution requiring that the country's national motto, "In God We Trust," be posted in all county buildings, including offices and schools. The Kingsport Times-News…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - People could carry loaded guns on their boats in a bill approved by the Tennessee House of Representatives. The House favored a bill Thursday that would let people who can legally have loaded or unloaded guns…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A third commercial poultry breeding operation in Tennessee has tested positive for avian flu. State agricultural officials on Thursday said the latest chicken breeding facility to be infected is in Lincoln County, close to a farm…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to auction off much of the land on which it was created in 1933. News outlets report the TVA announced Wednesday it has hired a real estate firm to market…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A detective has testified that a man accused of killing a Nashville nurse last month searched the internet for news stories on the crime and police fingerprint investigation techniques. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2nsCqAk) that the detective…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The former CEO of the Memphis Area Transit Authority has pleaded not guilty to a prostitution charge. The Commercial Appeal reports that Ronald Garrison appeared Wednesday in Shelby County court on a charge of patronizing prostitution…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says he approves of changes to his transportation funding proposal made in the state Senate earlier this week. Haslam had originally proposed raising the tax on gasoline by 7 cents per gallon…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A woman has been accused of knowingly failing to protect her 3-year-old son from the man who authorities say killed the boy last year. Media outlets report 26-year-old Ayonjaleea Phillips was arrested Monday in Knoxville and…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict in the case of a former sheriff's deputy accused of raping a child. News outlets report a Knox County judge declared a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Someone spread tar across a popular mural that says "I Believe in Nashville" in a tourist-friendly area of the country music capital, but a landlord promises it will be cleaned up and repainted. Media reported a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville police say a car of teenagers opened fire at a market because they were served the wrong pizza toppings. Police say suspects ages 16, 17 and 18 were arrested Tuesday afternoon after guns were fired…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Supporters and demonstrators have converged in the heart of Nashville in anticipation of President Donald Trump's visit. A line of Trump supporters waiting to get into the president's rally snaked around Nashville's historic Municipal Auditorium for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted a Murfreesboro man of smuggling gun silencers into the United States. The federal prosecutor's office in Nashville says evidence showed that 50-year-old Paul Gratton traveled to England and purchased six silencers…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has added a man wanted for homicide and robbery in Chattanooga to its top 10 most wanted list. Bureau officials said Monday that 21-year-old Jacob Evan Coyne is wanted by the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State lawmakers have advanced two bills aimed at helping people recover from deadly wildfires in eastern Tennessee. On Monday, the Senate favored a proposal to let local governments go on private property to clean up debris…
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The CEO of German automaker Volkswagen says the United States remains a "core market" for the company despite its diesel emissions scandal and has underlined that it hopes to expand there. Matthias Mueller made the comments…
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has pleaded not guilty to assault and weapons charges after authorities say he pulled a gun on state troopers, prompting them to shoot him. The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/2lXgFs2 ) reports 39-year-old Richard D.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing two young women inside a Nashville tanning salon in 1996 says the case should be dismissed because the state ignored his client's right to a speedy trial.…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries is investigating three possible cases of avian influenza in north Alabama. At a news conference Tuesday, Agriculture and Industries Commission John McMillan said the findings of bird flu in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry says she will attend an event at the Hermitage with President Donald Trump but won't attend his rally in Nashville. The mayor's office says the Andrew Jackson Foundation invited her to attend…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A grand jury will consider the case of a woman charged in the death of a Nashville police officer who tried to save her. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2n7IjlP ) reports Davidson County General Sessions Judge Allegra Walker…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam says he's uncertain about how a Republican plan to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law would affect Tennessee. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that GOP legislation would increase the ranks…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) -- Dolly Parton's My People Fund has issued monthly checks to 921 people who lost their homes in deadly wildfires that ravaged East Tennessee last year. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Dollywood Foundation President David…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Two teenagers are in custody after leading authorities on a high-speed chase across East Tennessee over the weekend. Local media outlets report that Sevierville police spokesman Bob Stahlke says the 14- and 17-year-old boys were staying…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state of Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the refugee resettlement program. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday by the Tennessee General Assembly, argues that the refugee program is forcing the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - President Donald Trump has scheduled another campaign rally, this time in Louisville. Trump's campaign website says the president will speak the night of March 20 at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Vice President Mike Pence visited Louisville…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee legislative panel has changed and passed Gov. Bill Haslam's transportation bill, which Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris says would ensure people save more in food tax cuts than they'd pay in a gas tax…
NEW YORK (AP) - Ruby Tuesday says it will explore strategic alternatives including a sale or merger, and that a key sales figure fell in the latest quarter. The restaurant chain says it's at the start of its strategic review…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Knox County jury has convicted a woman on charges that she tortured and starved two teenage stepsons. Forty-year-old Jessica Ann Cox was convicted Saturday of 23 counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials have confirmed that a second commercial breeding poultry operation in Tennessee has tested positive for the avian flu. Officials say the chicken breeding facility is located in Giles County, which lies south of Nashville…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee House has passed a bill seeking to allow lawmakers to start raking in campaign cash while they wait for a veto override session. The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Tilman Goins of Morristown passed…
NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission says it is investigating why AT&T cellphone customers were unable to call 911 in several states on Wednesday night. Law enforcement and government agencies in Texas, Florida, Tennessee and other states reported…
NEWPORT, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee investigators have arrested a woman who they say ran over a Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger's foot and struck a deputy with her car before being shot last month. News outlets report 28-year-old Chelsey…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee senators have watered down and passed legislation that critics still deem discriminatory. The Senate amended and approved Republican Sen. Mark Green's bill Thursday. It heads to the House. It says the state and local governments…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - President Donald Trump has scheduled another campaign rally, this time in Nashville, Tennessee. The president's campaign website is advertising the event next Wednesday at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. It will be the president's second campaign rally…
