NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Southeastern Conference Commissioner Roy Kramer is the 2017 winner of the Pat Summitt Lifetime Achivement Award from the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. The hall announced the award Monday. Kramer will be honored June 3…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The city's mayor and police chief are speaking out against a rash of gun violence in Memphis over the weekend that left five dead, including two 15-year-old boys. Mayor Jim Strickland's office issued a statement Monday…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police have arrested three people in a drive-by shooting that killed one teenager and wounded two others. Media outlets report 21-year-old Demarcus Johnson, 19-year-old Frederick Wilson and 20-year-old Otha Ray each were charged with one…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Newly-elected Tennessee Senate Speaker Randy McNally has announced more staff changes in his office at the state Capitol. The upper chamber of the General Assembly earlier this month elected McNally to succeed longtime Speaker Ron Ramsey,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga police say a woman who shot and wounded a man was defending herself and others. Police said in a news release that 30-year-old Dieshunn Lindsey was trying to assault the woman and others Sunday morning…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have closed all northbound lanes of a highway in east Tennessee after a 15-foot deep sinkhole opened up. Blount County Emergency Manage Agency spokesman Lance Coleman told news outlets that the sinkhole, which was reported…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials have authorized a special audit of Tennessee State Museum operations after its executive director received a 26 percent pay raise. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2joW0rr ) reports that museum officials announced the audit last…
MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. (AP) - Mount Carmel's police chief is not happy that speed enforcement cameras on a two-mile stretch of highway are going to be deactivated at the end of March when a contract expires. Police Chief Jeff Jackson…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is tapping Danielle Whitworth Barnes as the state Department of Human Services commissioner. A news release says Barnes will assume the post Feb. 6. The 41-year-old currently serves as deputy commissioner and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's preliminary unemployment rate for December rose slightly to 4.9 percent compared with November. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development says total nonfarm employment in the state grew by 6,000 jobs over the month.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam are part of a search committee helping Tennessee in its search for an athletic director. Tennessee announced Friday that it has hired the Turnkey Sports…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Hamilton County school officials are considering bringing busing in-house and expanding the role of its pool of independent bus drivers in the wake of a bus crash in which six children were killed last year. News…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music legend Crystal Gayle is being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, nearly a half-century after she first walked onto its stage to perform as a teenager.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials say 29 Tennessee communities will receive more than $1 million in grants to improve tourism infrastructure. Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd said Thursday that the Tourism Enhancement Grants…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee health officials are suspending new admissions at a Puryear nursing home because of its financial woes. A state Department of Health news release says Benchmark Healthcare was banned from adding new residents starting Jan. 10.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville teen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing a 14-year-old girl. The Tennessean reports that 19-year-old Antwana Smith - who had turned 18 one week before she shot and killed Treyonta…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Hamilton County school officials are considering bringing busing in-house and expanding the role of its pool of independent bus drivers in the wake of a bus crash in which six children were killed last year. News…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam are part of a search committee helping Tennessee in its search for an athletic director. Tennessee announced Friday that it has hired the Turnkey Sports…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State troopers have arrested six protesters who had chained themselves to the doors of the Tennessee Capitol at a protest of President Donald Trump's inauguration. Troopers and firefighters used shears to cut the protesters loose from each…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Police in Little Rock say a Camden, Tenn., woman who was struck by an officer driving a police sport utility vehicle has died. Police say 28-year-old…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Newly released statistics show the major crime rate in Memphis increased in 2016. Data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation compiled by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission released Wednesday shows the rise in major crime was…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is proposing to raise Tennessee's tax on each gallon of gasoline by 7 cents while cutting the state's sales tax on groceries and income from earnings on stocks and bonds. Haslam says average…
FULTON, Ky. (AP) -- Authorities say a man who was killed by a western Kentucky police officer earlier this week died of two gunshot wounds. Kentucky State Police Lt. Kyle Nall says preliminary autopsy results show that 43-year-old Charles Christopher…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Georgia man faces a sentence of life in prison on methamphetamine distribution charges. A news release from the U.S. District attorney in eastern Tennessee says 59-year-old James Hedelsky of Bartow County, Georgia, received the life…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state board has scheduled a meeting to review proposed nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. The Tennessee State Review Board is planning to meet Jan. 25 at the Tennessee Historical Commission in Nashville.…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A fire review team in Tennessee is going to investigate the fires that tore through Gatlinburg and killed 14 people. Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash tells the Knoxville News-Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2k19vRT ) that a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is scheduled to unveil his top legislative priority on Wednesday as state lawmakers await details on his plan to boost transportation funding in Tennessee. Lawmakers are largely sympathetic to Haslam's arguments that…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Tennessee postal worker who kept nearly 2,700 pieces of undelivered mail inside her home won't have to spend time behind bars. The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/2k1gP00 ) reports that a Greeneville federal judge recently sentenced…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A white sheriff's sergeant in Tennessee has been suspended after he used a racial slur while talking to a black deputy. The Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports (http://bit.ly/2iDqbKc) Sgt. George Jackson received a three-day suspension and must…
BRADYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say they are investigating an incident in Middle Tennessee that left two people dead and another hospitalized. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Niland told media that a man died from an apparent gunshot wound…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man accused of using a crowbar to fatally beat a college student from Tennessee three years ago has been convicted on murder charges. A Middlesex County jury also convicted Timothy Puskas on…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A preliminary report says federal transportation safety officials are still investigating what caused a Chattanooga school bus crash that killed six students. The National Transportation Safety Board report released Tuesday says on Nov. 21, a 24-year-old…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents. The White House says Manning is one of 209 inmates whose sentences Obama is shortening. Manning is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A state lawmaker has withdrawn her bill seeking to restrict which items that Tennessee's 1 million food stamp recipients would be able to buy at the grocery store. Republican Rep. Sheila Butt of Columbia would have…
DETROIT (AP) - A person briefed on the matter says General Motors will announce a $1 billion investment in its factories that will create or keep around 1,000 jobs. The investment will be announced Tuesday. The person tells The Associated…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say 12 people have been arrested during a protest at the Valero refinery in Memphis. Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee says protesters used 55-gallon drums to block the south Memphis refinery's truck loading entrance on…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee congressman says he'll boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration to support his Democratic colleague, John Lewis, who became embroiled in a feud with the incoming Republican president. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen chose the site of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal officials have made regulation changes aimed at stopping the practice of soring among Tennessee walking horses and similar breeds. The Tennessean reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced changes Friday to the Horse Protection Act.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Residents of Memphis, the city where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, are honoring his legacy with neighborhood events and a daylong celebration at the National Civil Rights Museum. Volunteers on Monday fanned…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - One-year-old formerly conjoined twin girls from Nigeria have been released from a Tennessee hospital. The Commercial Appeal reports Le Bonheur Children's Hospital released Miracle and Testimony Ayeni on Tuesday and they are staying with their parents…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville television reporter has been ordered to hand over documents from his investigation of a district attorney. The Tennessean reports a judge in Nashville on Friday ruled WTVF-TV reporter Phil Williams must release the documents…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville police say two 16-year-old boys have been charged in the shooting deaths of two other teenagers at a home. Metropolitan Nashville Police say in a news release the suspects were charged with two counts each…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Great Smoky Mountains National Park says it welcomed a record 11.3 million visitors in 2016 despite a deadly wildfire that began in the park. A news release from the park says that the attendance numbers amount…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have until Feb. 9 to file legislation they want to have considered during this year's legislative session. The House and Senate on Thursday completed their organizational sessions that involved electing the speakers, assigning committees…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Park Service has awarded Memphis a $400,000 grant for preservation of the historic Clayborn Temple, which served as the home base for the sanitation workers strike that brought civil rights leader Martin Luther King…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will feature exhibits on Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Loretta Lynn and Shania Twain in 2017. The museum announced Friday their slate of exhibitions for the…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a traffic stop in Tennessee ended with state police troopers firing at two people. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Leslie Earhart told WYCB-TV the two Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers fired their guns Thursday evening…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Rutherford County officials have appointed an interim sheriff while the county's sheriff remains in jail on charges that he profited from the sale of e-cigarettes to inmates. News outlets report that the Rutherford County Commission voted…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A pipeline in Chattanooga has reopened less than a week after it was closed because of a gasoline leak. Colonial Pipeline spokesman Aaron Smith tells news outlets that the affected portion near Signal Mountain was repaired…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Newly-elected state Senate Speaker Randy McNally isn't wasting much time in reshaping the leadership of his office. McNally, who took over the chamber's top post earlier this week, on Friday named longtime adviser Rick Nicholson to…
