CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A federal jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of nine black church members in South Carolina. The jury reached its verdict after less than two hours of deliberations. They convicted the 22-year-old white…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Dolly Parton says a star-studded telethon for those affected by recent wildfires in her native Tennessee has brought in about $9 million. Parton headlined the Tuesday night event that was broadcast on several cable networks and…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a text message warning residents to evacuate amid deadly wildfires wasn't sent because cell towers went out of service before agency leaders had a chance to agree on the message's wording. In a news…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The leadership positions among Democrats' small state Senate caucus will remain unchanged for the 110th Tennessee General Assembly. Lee Harris of Memphis was elected to another term as minority leader and Jeff Yarbro of Nashville will…
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a 12-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of an 84-year-old Tennessee woman. Multiple news outlets report that Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece made the announcement Tuesday. Deputies say Teruko…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Knoxville News-Sentinel says it no longer stands by the story of a man who told the newspaper that a terminally ill boy died in his arms while he was portraying Santa Claus. The story, published…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Residents forced to leave their homes after a semitrailer carrying hazardous pool chemicals crashed and caught fire are being allowed to return home. WKRN-TV (http://bit.ly/2gC1NaH ) reports people were allowed to go home just after 12:30…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican lawmakers are introducing legislation that would allow the use of marijuana for a variety of medical conditions in Tennessee. The Tennessean reports that the measure sponsored by Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby and Steve Dickerson…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Almost 200 Tennessee companies are aligning against proposals they fear would encourage discrimination. The group Tennessee Thrives says the state must stay welcoming, regardless of race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or…
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) - University of Tennessee Extension has scheduled a workshop for people who want to go into farming but don't know how to get started. Starting Jan. 25, four workshops are scheduled across the state. The same…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A police officer in Tennessee has been shot and wounded while trying to serve a warrant at a Nashville motel. The Metro Nashville Police Department said on its Twitter page that the officer was shot in…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is scheduled to be deposed Tuesday in a civil lawsuit against the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain owned by the family of Haslam and his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. According…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Local officials estimate that deadly wildfires in East Tennessee have caused more than $500 million in damage. Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters released the estimate Tuesday for the wildfires in the Gatlinburg area that killed 14…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An audit by the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general says the city of Memphis is generally using $1.9 million grant for sexual assault kits correctly. The report says Memphis has drawn almost $378,000 of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who pulled a weapon at a security checkpoint while entering the Capitol Visitor Center in March has pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from the confrontation in which he was shot by an officer.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music icon Dolly Parton's home and businesses in East Tennessee were spared from deadly wildfires last month, but she's pitching in to help her neighbors recover from the devastation. She was to headline a telethon…
BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) - The Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that has raised millions of dollars nationwide for ALS research has been honored by the NCAA. A group that included NCAA President Mark Emmert and several elected…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Local officials estimate that deadly wildfires in East Tennessee have caused more than $500 million in damage. Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters released the estimate Monday for the wildfires in the Gatlinburg area that killed 14…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials say the state's revenues for November were up slightly from the same month a year ago. Finance and Administration Commissioner Larry Martin says last month's revenues of $907 million were $6.8 million in excess…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's governor has sent a request to President Barack Obama to expedite a major disaster declaration for five of the state's counties to aid in recovery from wildfires and severe storms. The counties included in Gov.…
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) - A fire official says four children under the age of 10 have died and another child and an adult were injured when a home in Middle Tennessee caught fire early Monday. Springfield Fire Chief Jimmy Hamill…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A lawyer for a prominent Republican donor is dismissing as "baseless" a lawsuit against client Andy Miller Jr. that claims he hired political allies, friends and family to work do-nothing jobs. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2hfvLp0 )…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - More than 1,000 immigrants and refugee rights leaders are convening in Nashville as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. The National Immigration Integration Conference says it's the largest assembly of its kind since Trump's election.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Rhodes College in Memphis has named Marjorie Hass as the school's 20th president. Hass, who is currently president of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, will become the first female president in Rhodes' 168-year history. She succeeds…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a man has been freed from a Tennessee prison more than two years after his wife lied about him threatening her. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2hFojk2 ) reports 33-year-old Robert E. Polk of Nashville was released…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Singer Joe Ligon, the dynamic frontman of the Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, has died. He was 80. His manager, Isaac Lindsey, said Monday that Ligon died on Sunday in Georgia. Ligon's death also…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee Santa Claus says a terminally ill 5-year-old boy died in his arms after he gave the child a present in the hospital. The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who does about 80 events…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say the apparent shooting death of a person in a home is Memphis' 214th homicide of the year, setting a record in a city beset by gang activity and gun crimes. Memphis police spokesman Louis…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance says the troubled jail in Rutherford County has been decertified. According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2gcdp8Z ), department spokesman Kevin Walters says the department's Board of Control voted unanimously Wednesday…
ATLANTA (AP) - Recent showers and storms across much of the South have eased the severe drought in the region, but experts say it wasn't enough to make up for months of dry conditions before the rain finally fell. Mark…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two men have been arrested in a triple shooting in Nashville over Thanksgiving weekend that left two people dead. Local media outlets report Steven Robinson and Michael Woods both face murder, attempted murder and gun charges…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In a state that heavily favored Donald Trump, a Vanderbilt University poll says optimism in Tennessee has grown about the future of the state and country since the spring. The university's Center for the Study of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Shelby County district attorney's office has released the investigative file in the fatal shooting of a man by two Memphis police officers in January. The files posted Thursday on the district attorney's website provides witness…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died in Ohio. He was 95. Glenn became a national hero in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Several Democratic state lawmakers from Tennessee have been elected to leadership roles within the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. Rep. Raumesh Akbari (RAH-mesh Ahk-BAR-ee) was elected treasurer of the national organization at its 40th annual…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Rep. Karen Camper is headed to Washington to attend a gun violence prevention forum at the White House. The Memphis Democrat is scheduled to join a round table discussion on Wednesday about how to fight…
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Bridgestone Americas has announced that the Nashville-based tire maker will continue manufacturing its Firestone race tires in Akron for at least two more years. Company representatives and city officials confirmed a two-year lease extension on Bridgestone's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee is proposing a plan that would give local school districts more control over issues such as turning around poor-performing schools. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2hgHYdZ) reports that state education officials released Tuesday the first draft of Tennessee's…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Interior Department says it is designating more than 550 miles of mountain ridgelines in East Tennessee as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations. The department's action Wednesday comes at the request of the state, which…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a 2-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl have been killed in a mobile home fire in the Tipton County community of Drummonds. According to WMC-TV (http://bit.ly/2gceJUv ), Atoka Fire Department Chief Henry Posey said firefighters…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country icon Dolly Parton has organized a musical telethon to raise money for victims of the Tennessee wildfires that destroyed more than 1,700 homes in the resort town of Gatlinburg. The event, which will air Dec.…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities have charged two juveniles with starting an East Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 buildings. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee is proposing a plan that would give local school districts more control over issues such as turning around poor-performing schools. The Tennessean reports that state education officials released Tuesday the first draft of Tennessee's version…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Records custodians across Tennessee would be left to decide over several contentious open government issues under a proposed model policy now open for public review and comment. A new state law requires all government entities to…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Memphis man has been convicted in the shooting deaths of two club patrons during a fight at a motorcycle bar in 2014. The Shelby County district attorney's office says Robert D. "Carlos" Taylor…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State lawmakers are scheduled to convene the 110th Tennessee General Assembly on Jan. 10. The three-day organizational session will kick off with the formal elections for speaker in both chambers, though heavy Republican majorities in both…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are unveiling a bust of David Crockett at the state Capitol. Crockett, who was famous as "the king of the wild frontier," fought in the Indian wars from 1813 to 1815, was elected to…
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) - A mistakenly sold lottery ticket has earned a New Jersey couple $1 million. State lottery officials say 70-year-old Dante Castillo usually picks his own numbers. But when the Manchester man bought some tickets for last Thursday's…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - So far, three lawsuits have been filed following a Chattanooga school bus crash that killed six children and injured several more. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2h2Q6OB ) each of the lawsuits have been filed…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Federal authorities in Florida want an Indiana man accused of kidnapping and killing his estranged wife returned to the state. The FBI in Jacksonville released a criminal complaint Tuesday charging 58-year-old Jarvis Madison with kidnapping that…
