Author: Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that Memphis could no longer conduct sweeps to clear people off Beale Street unless public safety requires it. The Commercial Appeal reports that a three-member panel of…

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) -- The daughter of a Mississippi lawmaker says she lied to police last week by telling them her father had hit her during an argument. First-term Democratic state Rep. Kabir Karriem of Columbus was arrested Tuesday and…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Hamilton County Corrections Department does not have any employees tracking ankle monitors after regular business hours - a fact that at least one criminal has used to his advantage to get a head start on…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam has named the new boards of Middle Tennessee State University and Tennessee Tech, completing his appointments to six four-year colleges that the Republican has spun out of the Tennessee Board of Regents system.…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The high school graduation rate in Tennessee has increased to 88.5 percent. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2es5iUT ) reports that the state's high school graduation rate increased by nearly 1 percent this year compared to last year. According…

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to luring a 14-year-old East Tennessee girl away from home has been sentenced to life in prison plus five years. U.S. Attorney Nancy Stallard Harr said in a statement…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a Baptist church fire in Memphis. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, together with the Memphis…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - People interested in the state of four Tennessee Valley Authority reservoirs in Alabama and Tennessee are being invited to observe as biologists assess the overall health of fish and other aquatic life in the facilities. The…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - For the second year in a row, Christian singer Lauren Daigle won three awards at the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards on Tuesday night, including artist of the year. "Honestly, just looking back at last year…

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A man who survived nine days alone on Maine's tallest mountain at age 12 in 1939 and later wrote a book about the ordeal has died. Donn Fendler was 90. Family members say Fendler died in…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A lawsuit contesting the city of Knoxville's ban on guns at Chilhowee Park has withstood challenge for dismissal and will face another hearing. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2e3ZLPT) that on Oct. 3, Knox County Chancellor…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam has named state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and retired Army Gen. Gary Luck to newly independent university boards. The new boards are part of Haslam's initiative to spin six four-year public universities out…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in East Tennessee say a pilot and passenger have suffered minor injuries in a plane crash. WBIR-TV in Knoxville (http://on.wbir.com/2dV8tUf ) reports the small plane crashed into the French Broad River in eastern Knox County.…

SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) - General Motors says it plans to hire 650 people at its Tennessee plant amid plans to introduce a third shift to boost production of the Cadillac XT5 and GMC Acadia. The company said Tuesday that…

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A person familiar with the case says the Tennessee high school basketball player convicted of aggravated rape of a freshman teammate will be released from custody next month. The person says the juvenile defendant has been…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Firefighters are crediting an 11-year-old Memphis boy with saving his family from a fire that broke out at their apartment. Memphis Fire Lt. Wayne Cooke told WREG-TV that the boy heard the smoke detector going off…

BRENHAM, Texas (AP) - Blue Bell Creameries is recalling all of its ice cream products that contain cookie dough from an Iowa-based supplier. The move announced Monday night comes after Aspen Hills recalled cookie dough supplied to ice cream makers…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Unlike other cities in the state, Nashville has rarely used a large tax incentive to rehabilitate old buildings over the past 14 years. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2dESYSo ) reports a federal historic tax credit pays up to…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A nonprofit clinic in Memphis plans to use a vacant medical building to house the city's first freestanding birthing center and a reproductive health center. The Memphis Commercial Appeal (http://memne.ws/2dK3tAv ) reports that Choices - Memphis…

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - A grand jury could decide whether to indict a Mississippi lawmaker and others in a shovel-swinging brawl in a DeSoto County subdivision. The Commercial Appeal reports (http://memne.ws/2dG7t4H ) District Attorney John Champion could present the case…

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a $1.5 million maintenance and repair project is in the works for the dam at Bays Mountain Park. Interim Bays Mountain Park Manager Rob Cole tells the Kingsport Times News (http://bit.ly/2dGdqys) that maintenance of…

CONESTOGA, Pa. (AP) - Turkey Hill is recalling some mislabeled packages of ice cream. The Conestoga, Pennsylvania-based dairy says some of its 48-ounce containers of Dutch Chocolate Premium Ice Cream actually contain Rocky Road Premium Ice Cream instead. Rocky Road…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Public Safety headquarters complex in Jackson is closed until further notice for work on the air conditioning system. Department spokesman Warren Strain says Monday that people who would normally go to the…

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Cookeville are investigating the discovery of a man's body at a park-and-ride lot. The Cookeville Herald-Citizen reports the body was found Thursday near Interstate 40. Cookeville police Maj. Carl Sells says the man had…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has been involved in a Smithsonian exhibit that looks at the lives of people who lived in a Massachusetts home for almost 200 years. Associate history professor Christopher Magra helped…

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Blount County deputy charged this week with soliciting sex from a minor in North Carolina has been fired. Police say 48-year-old James Eugene Patty Jr. drove over the state line to meet with the underage…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA has relocated its men's basketball regional tournament to Greenville, South Carolina, after withdrawing the event from Greensboro, North Carolina, because of that state's law restricting the rights of LGBT people. The NCAA announced the move…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators is urging the public to get involved to keep civil rights milestones in Tennessee history from being culled from the social studies standards for public schools. Democratic Rep. Karen…

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) - A Facebook Live video shows a man and woman later discovered to have overdosed on heroin lying unconscious on a Memphis, Tennessee, sidewalk as a crowd of people mocks and films them. Courtland Garner is defending…

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Johnson City commissioners have approved a final reading to rezone a property for an addiction treatment clinic in Gray, an area officials have called "ground zero for drug abuse." News outlets report that officials voted…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sam Kennedy, a former Tennessee Press Association president who helped push for the state's sunshine law, is being inducted to the State Open Government Hall of Fame in Washington this weekend. Kennedy was the editor and…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The top three wardens at the state's second-largest prison for women have each either been demoted or have retired after investigators found multiple problems in terms of how the Nashville facility was being run. The Tennessean…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Fort Campbell soldiers preparing to deploy to Kosovo are having a ceremony in preparation for their departure. Members of the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, known as the…

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Four people have been killed in a head-on crash involving three vehicles in Clarksville. Multiple news outlets report that Clarksville police say the crash happened Wednesday afternoon on Ashland City Road. Police spokeswoman Natalie Hall says…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Campbell County judge under criminal indictment after being accused of mishandling a number of cases is looking to have the charges dropped. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2dOqBk0) General Sessions Judge Amanda Sammons' attorney Wade…

BEREA, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been in Kentucky to announce a program to reduce rural poverty nationwide. The project involves a partnership with 26 community development organizations to give long-term, low-interest financing to local entities…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new report sheds lights on the millions of additional dollars announced earlier this year by the state for teacher salaries in Tennessee. According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2cWGWx2), the state Comptroller of the Treasury report explains…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two presidential polls of Tennessee voters released this week show Republican Donald Trump with a comfortable lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton. In the poll released by Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Trump leads Clinton by 11 percentage…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged six soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, with conspiring to steal sensitive Army equipment including sniper telescopes and rifle accessories, machine gun parts, grenade launcher sights, flight helmets and night vision helmet mounts.…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York and five other Northeastern states are suing federal regulators to force them to help ensure that upwind states control their pollution. The suit against the Environmental Protection Agency was filed Thursday in Manhattan and…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Thursday morning over whether Tennessee's lethal injection protocol constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Thirty-three death row inmates sued after the state moved from a three-drug…

JASPER, Tenn. (AP) - A Marion County man has been sentenced to prison for battering his infant son to death. The Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/2dvAuQz) reports a judge on Tuesday sentenced 27-year-old Christopher E. Russell to 25 years each…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican leaders in the state Legislature are expressing alarm at the number of Tennessee historical events that would be removed from teaching requirements under a proposed overhaul of social studies standards. In the letter sent Wednesday,…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's athletic department has reported a surplus of $12.2 million for the 2015-16 fiscal year that ended June 30. The school announced in a release Wednesday that it had operating revenues of $136.2 million and expenses…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Death row inmate David Lee McNish, who was convicted of murdering a 70-year old woman in 1983, has died. The state Department of Correction says McNish was found unresponsive in his cell at the Riverbend Maximum…