NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The body of Sen. Douglas Henry, a larger-than-life lawmaker with the longest tenure in General Assembly history, has been brought to the Tennessee Capitol. Henry died Sunday night at the age of 90. On Thursday, Henry…
HOUSTON (AP) - AT&T says 911 service has been restored for cellphone customers who had been unable to call 911 in Texas and several other states. Various law enforcement and government…
HOUSTON (AP) - Various law enforcement and government agencies in Texas and other states around the U.S. are reporting that AT&T customers are unable to call 911 from their cellphones. A spokesman for Dallas-based AT&T said Wednesday evening the company…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has set a trial date in a case brought by two former Tennessee high school basketball players who said they were sexually assaulted by older teammates. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2n0Bqmy )…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Here's a topic for barroom chats: Are today's whiskeys better than old-time spirits? Kentucky lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that could stir some of those conversations. The bill would allow vintage bottles of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A legislative committee has delayed votes on voucher bills following questions about what assessment tests the students would take if the proposals were to pass into law. Tennessee public school students currently take a test known…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill seeking to ban abortion in Tennessee at the first detected fetal heartbeat, as early as six weeks, has failed for the year. A House health panel voted not to consider the legislation by Republican…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Registry of Campaign Finance has informed expelled state Rep. Jeremy Durham that he faces potential fines for failing to report more than $36,000 in contributions and more than $51,000 in expenditures. The alleged reporting…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The former U.S. attorney for West Tennessee is joining a law firm as he returns to private practice in Memphis. The Butler Snow law firm said Wednesday that Edward Stanton III has joined its Memphis office.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are slated to vote on several school-choice proposals, including vouchers bills moving through the legislature. The Senate Education Committee is scheduled on Wednesday to consider two bills which would allow low-income kids to use…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A Chattanooga school bus driver has been indicted on six counts of vehicular manslaughter in a crash last November that killed a half-dozen children. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported Wednesday that 24-year-old Johnthony Walker also…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville's Gordon Jewish Community Center is holding a security forum in the wake of a number of bomb threats it has received since January. Federal officials have been investigating more than 120 threats against Jewish organizations…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Trial is underway for a former Knox County sheriff's deputy accused of raping a girl. News media outlets report that Dennis Mills Jr. was charged with raping the girl over a two-year period while he was…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former teacher accused of secretly recording girls changing clothes inside a closet at a Nashville elementary school has pleaded not guilty. Media report 30-year-old Jarrett Jones was arraigned Wednesday and his attorney, Bobby Ballinger, entered…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville's Metro Council is calling for the "immediate purchase" of police body cameras after the fatal shooting of an armed black man by a white officer last month. News outlets report the council voted 30-5 Tuesday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The site of civil rights sit-ins in 1960, the Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, will reclaim its historic look as it becomes a soul food restaurant with live music. At Wednesday's news conference inside the under-construction…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Chattanooga school bus driver has been indicted on six counts of vehicular manslaughter in a crash last November that killed a half-dozen children. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2n01TAy ) reported Wednesday that 24-year-old Johnthony…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee lawmaker is stalling a transgender bathroom bill for a week or two amid recent federal actions. Republican Rep. Mark Pody said his bill was delayed in committee Tuesday to allow time to re-evaluate the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A bill seeking to reduce the penalty for possessing small amounts of marijuana in Tennessee has been extinguished in a state Senate committee. The Judiciary Committee voted 6-3 on Tuesday against the measure sponsored by Sen.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Democrat Andy Berke has been elected to a second term as Chattanooga mayor. The former state senator earned 64 percent of the vote, compared with 26 percent for his closest of three challengers, City Councilman Larry…
BARRON, Wis. (AP) - Officials confirm a low-pathogenic bird flu strain has been detected in a Jennie-O Turkey Store operation in western Wisconsin. The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted notice of the case to the Organization for Animal Health's website…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's transportation funding proposal has been parked for another week in the House after lawmakers argued about the best timing to vote on the measure. The governor's plan involves raising taxes on gasoline…
ROSINE, Ky. (AP) - Officials in western Kentucky say a proposed museum dedicated to bluegrass music pioneer Bill Monroe is getting closer to reality. Ohio County Judge-Executive David Johnston told the Messenger-Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2lUGDbB) that a groundbreaking for the facility has…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee bank manager was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling about $1 million and using it to gamble online and pay personal debts. A U.S. attorney news release in Eastern Tennessee says Kenneth…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A Tennessee business owner has pleaded guilty to fraud in a conspiracy that allegedly involved a former western Kentucky county jailer and others. The U.S. attorney's office said 42-year-old Daniel C. Larcom of Union City pleaded…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Greeneville man has been sentenced to serve ten and a half years in prison for his leadership role in a crack cocaine drug conspiracy. Officials said U.S. District Court Judge J. Ronnie Greer handed down…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say five people have been arrested as part of a prostitution sting in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa police Lt. Teena Richardson said the operation was carried out on Friday by the department's Code Enforcement Division. Richardson tells…
ATLANTA (AP) - Waffle House co-founder Joseph Wilson Rogers Sr., who went from short-order cook to co-founder of one of the nation's largest restaurant chains, has died. He was 97. Georgia-based Waffle House said Rogers died Friday. No cause was…
BEAR, Del. (AP) - A man wanted in a 2015 fatal shooting at a car wash in Delaware has been captured in Tennessee. The News Journal of Wilmington reports (http://delonline.us/2lYl5dT ) Chattanooga, Tennessee police officers arrested 33-year-old Bobby L. Taylor…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to give Andy Berke another term as Chattanooga mayor. Berke is a former state senator who was first elected mayor with more than 70 percent of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are considering a sweeping expansion of a voucher-like program that is estimated to cost $71 million. Supporters of the new proposal say it gives parents unprecedented choice and allows them to customize their children's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An agreement has been reached between the nation's largest private prison operator and female visitors who said they had to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating. A federal court order on Monday dismissed claims…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A judge says evidence collected from a Tennessee bus crash that killed six school students must remain sealed to protect the 24-year-old bus driver's constitutional rights while he faces criminal prosecution. Police say Johnthony Walker was…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A company that provided health care services at Indiana's prisons plans to lay off nearly 700 workers after losing its state contract. Brentwood, Tennessee-based Corizon Health had held a contract with the Indiana Department of Correction to…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis mother who led police on a massive search for her 7-week-old daughter has admitted to killing the infant. The Shelby County district attorney's office announced that Andrea Walker pleaded guilty Monday to reckless homicide…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The city of Nashville has launched a summer job program that officials say will help young people ages 14 to 24 find meaningful job and internships. Mayor Megan Barry announced the new initiative, which is called…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials are using a federal grant to provide cleanup work to people who lost their jobs after deadly wildfires. The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development and Walters State Community College have begun distributing…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Fort Campbell says it's expecting three members of Congress to visit the post this week to learn about military readiness and budget effects. A news release from the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border said Republican…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally says in a Facebook post that former Sen. Douglas Henry, a larger-than-life former state lawmaker with the longest tenure in the history of the Tennessee General Assembly, has died. He was…
NEW YORK (AP) - Tens of thousands of chickens have been destroyed at a Tennessee chicken farm due to a bird flu outbreak, and 30 other farms within a six-mile radius are being quarantined. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville businessman Randy Boyd is joining the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam next year. The Republican tells The Associated Press he is running on a platform of creating job opportunities for Tennesseans through education.…
DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Co. is laying off 1,100 workers at an assembly plant in Michigan. GM says it's ending the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant because one of its products - the GMC Acadia SUV…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A federal jury has convicted a Kentucky Amish man of misbranding his homemade cosmetics with cancer-curing claims and impeding a federal investigation. Bath County farmer Samuel Girod was convicted in Lexington, Ky., last week on 13…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has been arrested on assault charges in connection with a traffic stop that ended with troopers shooting and wounding him. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Friday that…
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A St. Louis jury has rejected a woman's claim that Johnson & Johnson baby powder contributed to her ovarian cancer. The 11-1 verdict came Friday in a lawsuit filed by 55-year-old Nora Daniels, of Columbia, Tennessee,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Sentencing has been delayed for a man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer in Memphis, Tennessee, during a chaotic raid of his home. Judge James Beasley on Friday postponed the sentencing of 25-year-old Treveno Campbell…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam has issued a writ of election to replace former Republican state Rep. Mark Lovell, who resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation. The Shelby County Election Commission has scheduled the primary for April 27…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Haslam administration has postponed the deadline for private companies interested in running Fall Creek Falls State Park to submit proposals. State Department of Environment and Conservation spokesman Eric Ward told local media Wednesday that the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department says it's halting a review and reform process of the Memphis Police Department. In October, Justice Department officials launched the comprehensive review of Memphis police after citizens criticized the department's use of…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a Tennessee teenager who learned CPR at school used the training to save the life of an unresponsive toddler. Kaela Eads said she was just finishing her shift at a fast-food restaurant in Bristol…
