NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville Zoo is welcoming the birth of a clouded leopard, a rare, mysterious cat native to Asia. Zoo officials say the cub was the first clouded leopard to be conceived through artificial insemination with cryopreserved…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A proposal to amend the state constitution to say that God is the source of Tennesseans' liberties has failed in the House. The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Micah Van Huss of Jonesborough received a 3-3…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state appeals court has sided with a lower court's decision that upheld the firing of a state trooper who drove past a fatal wreck. Court records show former trooper Charles Van Morgan was fired from…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal workplace safety agency wants to fine Nissan Motor Co. more than $21,000, saying the company's Mississippi plant should have better trained a maintenance worker who lost three fingers in July. The citations were issued…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Lawyers for a man accused of causing a Tennessee bus crash that killed six school students say they want civil litigation against their client put on hold to protect his constitutional rights during his criminal case.…
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a former Cumberland County EMS used his position to steal drugs and forged records to cover it up. Multiple news outlets report that 47-year-old Randy Davidson was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam is lauding lawmakers for advancing his plan to begin tackling Tennessee's more than $10 billion backlog in road and bridge projects, but the Republican wants to see his bill returned to its original…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Georgia man has admitted he ran a $54 million Ponzi scheme built on false promises of green energy technology and real estate. Troy Wragg pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on Thursday to conspiracy and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's state attorney general says bills in the General Assembly that would outlaw abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected by ultrasound may not be able to stand up in court. However, the opinion written by…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's sweeping transportation funding proposal has survived a key vote in the state House but without a provision to hike the state's gas and diesel taxes. The proposal advanced on a 5-4 vote…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The family of a snowboarder who suffered broken bones and frostbite after falling 30 feet off a ski lift to avoid freezing to death has sued a North Carolina ski resort. The Charlotte Observer reports (http://bit.ly/2lApd3Q)…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought disaster aid is available in 79 of Mississippi's 82 counties - and in 22 counties in adjacent states. Farmers and ranchers in those counties have eight months from Feb. 23 to apply for…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A former Harvard employee is accused of stealing nearly $48,000 from the university and spending it on laptops, iPads and other personal items. Prosecutors say 32-year-old Darris Saylors, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arraigned Wednesday in Cambridge.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The National Weather Service says at least three tornadoes have been confirmed to have hit central Tennessee during severe thunderstorms. Justyn Jackson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said one confirmed tornado Wednesday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - South Korean appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. says it has selected Tennessee as the site for its washing machine plant in the United States. The 829,000-square-foot facility is projected to cost $250 million and create 600…
JACKSBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A pastor of a church in LaFollette is facing sex charges after being accused of abusing a teenage girl who lived with him. Local news outlets report that 68-year-old Jimmy E. Orick of Jacksboro was arrested…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man has become the first Knox County inmate chosen for a new program that will use anti-opioid injections to help prisoners recover from their addictions. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2l8CFQa) Greg Fox received an…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police are receiving a four-year, $6.1 million grant aimed at retaining and recruiting badly-needed officers. Mayor Jim Strickland said Monday the grant from the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission contains retention bonuses between $6,400 and $7,000…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state Senate committee has agreed to changes to a bill seeking to label Tennessee driver's licenses issued to people without permanent residency status with the words "alien" or "non-U.S. citizen." Under an amendment approved Monday,…
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - The Oak Ridge Public Library is looking for help in identifying names and places shown in a vast photograph collection that the library houses. The photos were taken by Ruth Carey from the 1960s to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state Senate has passed a bill seeking to prevent campaign funds from being invested in private companies. The legislation follows the release of a Tennessee Registry of Campaign Fiance audit that found that former Rep.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal authorities say two people, including an alleged 60-year-old pot dealer, are accused of buying votes in the 2014 U.S. Senate primary election. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2lSR9AF ) that Betty Jane Best and Brian…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Republican state senator is calling for a boycott of a national legislators' meeting in California next year in retaliation for that state's ban on state-funded travel to Tennessee and other states over laws considered anti-LGBT.…
LACONIA, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say human remains discovered along a highway in Tennessee were those of a man reported missing in August after a woman answered a Craigslist ad…
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) - Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area says wildlife refuges are reopening next month. Wildlife program manager Steve Bloemer says the refuges are closed from Nov. 1 through March 15 as waterfowl and eagle refuges…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials have found the body of a boater who fell into a Nashville-area reservoir and never resurfaced. Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency Officer Josh Landrum tells news outlets that authorities found the body of 50-year-old Kongmany Rajaphoumy…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Domestic violence killings in Memphis are on the rise, a trend punctuated by two apparent murder-suicides in which authorities say two men killed their wives and themselves on the same day last week. Citing data from…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new study blames people for triggering five out of every six wildfires in the United States and tripling the length of the wildfire season. Even as climate change worsens the nation's fire season - making it…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Secretary of State Tre Hargett says this session is the last chance for Tennessee lawmakers to approve funding for a new building for the State Library and Archives. If the long-planned facility doesn't get the OK…
SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning an event to view the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse from Clingmans Dome. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports tickets will be available for $30 each beginning Wednesday at http://www.recreation.gov.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Former Nashville mayor Karl Dean says he's decided to run for governor of Tennessee in 2018. Dean is the first Democrat to enter the governor's race. The Tennessean reports he plans to file paperwork on Monday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials say the head of the Special Investigations Bureau with the Tennessee Highway Patrol has resigned following his arrest on charges that include aggravated assault and public intoxication. Department of Safety and Homeland Security officials…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court has reversed a death penalty case that was prosecuted by Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich because the FBI paid a key witness $750 but the witness lied about it under oath.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials say the hospital has had a security breach where two employees accessed medical records of more than 3,000 patients. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2mu5pin ) reports the hospital has sent out letters to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An environmental group says volunteers will be planting tens of thousands of trees in Tennessee this weekend. The Tennessee Environmental Council says more than 20,000 volunteer tree-planters from the state's 95 counties are picking up their…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal jury says private prison company CoreCivic had a longstanding custom of understaffing an Idaho prison, and that the company was deliberately indifferent to the risk of serious harm that posed to inmates. But jurors…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors in the death of a high school football player who shielded two girls from gunfire have let a deadline pass to seek the death penalty. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2l8oyFA ) reports that Knox County…
ALGOOD, Tenn. (AP) -- As Republican Gov. Bill Haslam takes his proposal to boost transportation funding on the road, there is a growing call for his plan to include greater tax breaks for middle-class Tennessee drivers who pay more at…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Highway Patrol has announced that it will soon be accepting applications for its second lateral trooper class. THP officials say preferred applicants have graduated from a law enforcement training facility certified by the state…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two investigations released by the state comptroller's office are raising questions about what happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to feed poor children. One probe questioned…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - State officials have fined a Memphis cemetery $2,800 for violations including sunken graves and failing to maintain the grounds. Tennessee's Department of Commerce and Insurance issued the fine against Memorial Park South Woods in January. According…
FLORIDA, N.Y. (AP) - Discount retailer Dollar General says it has chosen a site near the New York State Thruway in the Mohawk Valley for a distribution center that will employ more than 400 people. The Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based company announced…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are nearing a move into freshly overhauled offices at the state Capitol complex, but some Republicans are chafing at the building being named after Democrat Cordell Hull. Hull was the country's longest-serving secretary of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials in charge of fixing up the Memphis home where Aretha Franklin was born say they are working with the DIY Network to move the crumbling structure to a safer location and make it more attractive…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man accused of leaving a loaded gun by his side while sleeping on a couch has been charged in the death of a 2-year-old boy who was shot in the head in Tennessee. Nashville police…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources has sold its mining assets in Harlan County, Kentucky, to a Georgia company that plans to reopen the idled mines. Alpha said in a statement Thursday that it sold the mining…
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - More than 50 million people are being warned to watch for high winds and possibly tornadoes as a storm system that pummeled California this week moves into the Midwest. The severe weather will ramp up Friday…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - First-term U.S. Rep. David Kustoff has discussed tax cuts for businesses, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act and Russia's influence on the presidential election during a meeting with business leaders in Memphis. The Republican congressman…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's lieutenant governor says the Trump administration's decision to lift protections for transgender students negates the need for the state to pass a bathroom bill. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, a Republican from Oak Ridge, said Thursday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam isn't ruling out a future run for U.S. Senate. The Republican's comments came in response to a question at a Tennessee Press Association luncheon Wednesday.…
