Author: Associated Press

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…

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…

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.…

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…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A father critically injured in a mobile home fire in suburban Nashville that claimed the lives of his two children has also died. Multiple news outlets report that Metro police say 28-year-old Luciano Mejia Sunun died…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sturgill Simpson's records have defied easy characterization (Country? Americana? Experimental Southern rock?), but this year The Recording Academy decided whatever genre he was, he made one of the best records of the year. And that's enough…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man in prison for rape has been convicted of a third rape in Tennessee. A Shelby County district attorney general news release says 28-year-old Deandrey Peterson was convicted of aggravated rape, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery…

ATLANTA (AP) - Several agencies, including the American Red Cross and the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, say they've begun helping victims of recent wildfires in the Southeast. They say resources for people include: -Tennessee Statewide…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dozens of church, community and political leaders are expected to appear in federal court next month to show their support for former State Rep. Joe Armstrong as he makes a bid for probation after filing a…

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Mountain States Health Alliance is paying the federal government a $50,000 penalty after two parents accused a Johnson City hospital of not providing a qualified sign language interpreter while their daughter was dying. The U.S.…

SMITHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say two adults and a child have died in a residential blaze in Middle Tennessee and two others were injured. A statement from Smithville Police Chief Mark Collins said five people were at the mobile…

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Businesses remained closed Monday in the fire-ravaged Tennessee community of Gatlinburg, but many were in cleanup mode in hopes of reopening to the public - possibly by midweek. The owners of shops and other businesses unscathed…