NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tipper Gore returned to Nashville recently to help raise money for Tennessee Voices for Children, a non-profit she founded before her husband was elected vice president in 1992. Tipper and Al Gore separated in 2010, and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - James King, the vice chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, has been elected chairman of the national Council on Occupational Education. King won the one-year term as chairman at the group's annual meeting in San…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three finalists have been named in the search for the next chancellor of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. The Institute of Agriculture consists of UT Extension, AgResearch, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police say a man has been injured after shots were fired in the parking lot of a mall after it had opened for shoppers. Police spokesman Louis Brownlee said in a statement that the victim…
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man wanted in the death of his 3-year-old stepson has been captured in Ohio. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that 28-year-old Demetrius Covington was taken into custody Wednesday at…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The Defense Department has announced that Maj. Gen. Andrew P. Poppas will take over as commanding general at Fort Campbell. The Leaf-Chronicle (http://leafne.ws/2gcIqX4 ) reported the announcement Friday, but it isn't clear when Poppas will…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - More than $112,000 has been donated to The Woodmore Fund to benefit the families of victims of the Chattanooga school bus crash in which six children were killed. The United Way said in a recent news…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- More than $112,000 has been donated to The Woodmore Fund to benefit the families of victims of the Chattanooga school bus crash in which six children were killed. The United Way said in a recent news…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis police say a man has been injured after shots were fired in the parking lot of a mall after it had opened for shoppers. Police spokesman Louis Brownlee said in a statement that the victim…
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service says a planned black bear and buck hunt in north Georgia will go on despite a nearby wildfire. Officials say the hunt is set for Nov. 30 through Dec. 4 in the Cohutta…
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say the suspect wanted in the killing of a South Carolina man who testified recently in a federal drug trial has been arrested in Tennessee. Anderson County deputies said in a news release that federal…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is warning hunters about restrictions on bringing deer carcasses into the state to help avoid the spread of chronic wasting disease. The wildlife agency says that there were three instances on…
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) - Nearly 100 firefighters are spending their Thanksgiving holiday mopping up and monitoring wildfires in north Georgia. WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2fJGW5Q ) the state forestry commission is re-deploying the bulldozers and crews to different areas so that they…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The city of Memphis could be on the hook for more than $727,000 in the case of two former college football players beaten by police near Beale Street in 2011. The city in September settled the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say toxicology reports on the driver of the bus that crashed in Chattanooga, killing five children, show no trace of drugs or alcohol. Chattanooga Police Sgt. Austin Garrett announced Wednesday that a blood test was conducted…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A pediatric emergency room doctor at the hospital where students were taken after a Chattanooga school bus crash killed five children says matching the injured with parents was a long process. Dr. Darvey Koller of Children's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An outside firm hired by Gov. Bill Haslam's administration agrees that privatizing maintenance work at public colleges and universities could save $35 million per year. Haslam's outsourcing advisers and consultants have touted the outsourcing plan as…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man needs multiple surgeries after a car hit a deer and the deer flew off and hit him as he walked by. The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle reports (http://leafne.ws/2gbC4K0 ) that Robert Hayes was walking to…
ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say firefighters have made progress against many of the large wildfires burning in the Southeast, but several blazes continue to creep into new areas - and they say more fires have been started by suspected arsonists.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The driver of an elementary school bus that crashed in Chattanooga, killing at least five children, has been arrested and faces charges including vehicular homicide. Calling the Monday afternoon crash…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Tennessee commissions are taking applications for the Tennessee Civil War Sites Preservation Fund. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation says the amount of grant funding available for 2017 is expected to be $375,000. Applicants…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Dozens of 101st Airborne Division soldiers are back at Fort Campbell after a nine-month deployment to Iraq. The post says about 170 soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 101st Airborne, and 101st Airborne Division Artillery…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Bob Corker is planning to tour fire damage in Hamilton County as firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Tennessee and elsewhere in the Southeast. The Tennessee Republican's office says Corker will receive a briefing…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The infant mortality rate in Memphis has hit a record low, marking an important milestone in the city's fight to improve a key measure of its overall health. The health department in Shelby County, which includes…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A businessman has accused Knox County officials of being opaque in their $160,000 purchase of 400 body armor vests for sheriff's deputies. The Knoxville News-Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2eYlZI1 ) reports that Rusty Burton, a law-enforcement supply dealer who…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The dust may have settled on legislative elections and leadership votes, but Republican Gov. Bill Haslam doesn't appear any closer to divulging his plans for boosting transportation funding in Tennessee. Haslam tells reporters he's meeting with…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - University of Cincinnati Interim President Beverly Davenport has been selected as the University of Tennessee's next chancellor of its Knoxville campus. If the Board of Trustees approves Davenport's selection, she would become the school's first female…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The district attorney says six people are dead in an elementary school bus crash in Chattanooga. Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston told media outlets that five people died at the scene and one died at…
SEATTLE (AP) - The assisted living chain Emeritus Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle claims that it overbilled state and federal governments for Medicaid services. Seattle U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes said Monday the company will pay…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- The district attorney confirms six people are dead after an elementary school bus crash in Chattagnooga. Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston told media outlets that five people died at the scene and one died at the…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A deer hit by a car in Tennessee went airborne and struck someone walking by hard enough to break some of the pedestrian's bones. Clarksville Police spokeswoman Officer Natalie Hall tells The Leaf-Chronicle (http://leafne.ws/2g3IdIg ) that a…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A plant spokesman says Volkswagen's plan to cut 30,000 jobs will have "no effect" on the company's Chattanooga facility. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2guYBD5 ) company staffing contractor Aerotek wants to hire 1,100 new employees…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A study looking at the potential of a bullet train between Chattanooga and Atlanta includes three route options. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2gsyqwc ) says the first part of the two-track study is almost ready. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A missing DeKalb County 8-month-old has been found in Michigan along with his parents after authorities say the couple fled the scene of a car accident that exposed a mobile meth lab in their car. The Tennessean…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee sheriff's major is charged with lying about being a U.S. citizen on his job application, then denying it when he later applied for citizenship. Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith announced charges Thursday against 47-year-old…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Readers from Appalachian Power have been visiting hundreds of schools in West Virginia, Tennessee and Virginia, reading to elementary students and donating a book to the school libraries. The electric utility says 314 readers read to…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A doctor who authorities say wrote thousands of prescriptions for a Maryville pill mill has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. News outlets report that a Knoxville federal judge sentenced 47-year-old James Brian Joyner…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A deer hit by a car in Tennessee went airborne and struck someone walking by hard enough to break some of the pedestrian's bones. Clarksville Police spokeswoman Officer Natalie Hall tells The Leaf-Chronicle (http://leafne.ws/2g3IdIg ) that…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A class-action lawsuit claims people were held for "unreasonable" lengths of time at the Shelby County Jail after trouble with the new computer records system. Media outlets report that attorneys Claiborne Ferguson and Josh Spickler filed…
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - What's being billed as Alabama's largest solar energy project is opening in northwest Alabama. The River Bend Solar Energy Center was commissioned in Florence on Friday. It has more than 300,000 solar panels that follow the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has been subpoenaed to appear in a videotaped deposition in a civil lawsuit against the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain owned by the family of Haslam and his brother, Tennessee Gov.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee is starting a $4 million fellowship program to recruit exceptional graduate students. Starting fall 2017 at the flagship campus in Knoxville, the university will offer four-year $10,000 annual fellowships for up to…
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Public memorial services are planned in Tennessee and Oklahoma for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell, who died Sunday at the age of 74. Bond Memorial Chapel says a funeral will be held Friday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican state Sen. Randy McNally, a long time champion of ethics and transparency, is poised to become the next speaker of the Tennessee Senate. Senate Republicans, who control 28 of 33 seats in the upper chamber…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a worker has been killed and another has been injured in an industrial accident at the Cargill plant in Memphis. Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee says a wall collapsed during demolition at the plant…
TIGER, Ga. (AP) - Thick smoke has settled over a wide area of the southern Appalachians, where dozens of uncontrolled wildfires are burning through decades of leaf litter, and people breathe in tiny bits of the forest with every gulp…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's attorney general has issued an opinion saying municipalities cannot enact and enforce ordinances that allow police to reduce the penalty for people who possess small amounts of marijuana. Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III said…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- An autopsy shows a Chattanooga inmate died after suffering from heroin withdrawal. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the preliminary autopsy from the Hamilton County Medical Examiner's Office reveals 26-year-old Madison Bailee Deal died Aug. 18…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Conjoined twins from Nigeria have been separated after a lengthy operation at a Memphis hospital. Le Bonheur Children's Hospital spokeswoman Anne Glanker tells The Associated Press that Miracle and Testimony Ayeni were separated during an 18-hour…
MADISON, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee health officials have ordered a nursing home to stop taking new residents and pay a $6,100 fine for violations. A Tennessee Department of Health news release Monday says Creekside Health and Rehabilitation in Madison faces…
