MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Memphis City Council has narrowly approved an ordinance that would allow police to reduce the penalty for people who possess a small amount of marijuana. The council voted 7-6 Tuesday after lengthy discussion from people…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis City Council has narrowly approved an ordinance that would allow police to reduce the penalty for people who possess a small amount of marijuana. The council voted 7-6 Tuesday after lengthy discussion from people…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has kicked off a week to promote the manufacturing sector with a visit to the Beretta plant in Gallatin. The Monday visit coincided with the 490th anniversary of the Italian gunmaker's first…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office has unveiled its new drone system that deputies will use to gather evidence for court cases, detect bombs and find missing persons. Media outlets report Sheriff Jim Hammond assured the public…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The three top wardens at the Tennessee Prison for Women have been placed on leave while state officials investigate possible protocol violations at the Nashville facility. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2du5Lmy ) reports that Warden Carolyn Jordan, Associate…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Federal investigators say a motor vehicle crash that killed six people on a Tennessee highway last year likely happened because a truck driver who failed to slow…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - City leaders are set to vote on an ordinance that would allow police to reduce the penalty for people who possess a small amount of marijuana. The Memphis City Council is scheduled to vote on the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Health officials say the number of cases of Legionnaires' disease with ties to a Memphis hotel has risen to seven. The Shelby County Health Department said Monday that the La Quinta Inn & Suites where the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Shelby County say an off-duty firefighter has died in a weekend rollover accident. The Commercial Appeal (http://memne.ws/2dny6uD ) reports that 26-year-old Ryan McCray was ejected from his car when it left a road, struck…
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been arrested after authorities say he shot at three Shelbyville churches. Bedford County Sheriff Austin Swing tells local media that 36-year-old Wendell Buchanan was arrested Saturday. Deputies conducted a traffic stop on Buchanan…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says he's concerned that too much Tennessee history could be stripped from teaching requirements in the state's public schools under an update to social studies standards. A draft version would remove a…
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - Forestry officials are planning to alter one of the steepest, most scenic sections of the Appalachian Trail in Carter County to make it safer. The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/2dMQOvg) reports the U.S. Forest Service and The…
ATOKA, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information concerning the theft of about 21 firearms from a gun shop in West Tennessee. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a news release Monday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Spring Hill police officer has been indicted on sex-related charges that allegedly occurred while he was on duty. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that a Maury County grand jury on Monday returned indictments…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis police say a man has been charged with stealing $600,000 worth of sports video games from a warehouse where he worked. The Commercial Appeal reports 28-year-old Barry Hicks was charged last week with theft of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says Doug Varney is retiring as commissioner of the state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Varney has served in Haslam's Cabinet since the start of the Republican governor's first…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking input from the public about the potential environmental impacts of future plans for its downtown Knoxville headquarters. The TVA said Thursday that the public is invited to comment through Oct.…
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has ordered Sullivan County to pay more than $180,000 to the cities of Kingsport and Bristol for past liquor-by-the-drink revenue collected over a 30-year period. The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/2dBcm1L) reports that a chancery court…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - The attorney for an East Tennessee State University student who disrupted an on-campus Black Lives Matter rally while wearing a gorilla mask and carrying around…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State authorities are seeking information from the public and law enforcement agencies that have reported cases of vehicles being shot on Interstate 81 in east Tennessee. Tennessee's Department…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former postal worker in Tennessee has reached a plea deal after she was accused of keeping nearly 2,700 pieces of undelivered mail inside her home. News outlets report that Kathy Gross pleaded guilty to an…
SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) - Swiss firm ABB says its new Tate County plant is a key part of its plan to produce its full range of electrical components for North American customers. Franklin Sullivan, who leads ABB's electrical components business…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two men who helped integrate college basketball came back to Vanderbilt University this week to talk about race. Perry Wallace and Godfrey Dillard shared provocative views on the pace of change, took up matters they rarely…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - One man has died after being shot in what police are calling an apparent road rage incident. Metro Nashville Police tell local media that Wednesday afternoon, 36-year-old Christopher Sparks was driving a red Honda Accord in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials say the west Tennessee city of Paris has received Main Street accreditation, which gives it access to funding to improve its downtown area. Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd said Wednesday…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Employees at the Electrolux appliance factory in Memphis have voted to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union. The Commercial Appeal reports (http://memne.ws/2dsw8Zg ) that about 650 workers cast ballots in the unionization…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A prominent school voucher advocate in Tennessee paid for a private plane to take public officials including potential Republican and Democratic candidates for governor to North Carolina on a private school tour. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2cYx1In…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A group of Tennessee parents says the public schools are mistreating their disabled children, and they're asking a federal judge to intervene. The parents say their children are being segregated from able-bodied students, isolated, restrained and…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Community Health Systems says it is selling four hospitals in Mississippi and Florida to Curae Health Inc. The Mississippi hospitals involved in the deal are the 95-bed Merit Health Gilmore Memorial in Amory, the 112-bed Merit…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Drugged driving has overtaken drunken and distracted driving as a factor in Tennessee traffic fatalities. Citing an analysis of Tennessee Highway Patrol data, The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2cO3vYa ) reports…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal jury has ruled that Knox County owes a former inmate $2,000 for each of the 70 days behind bars the man spent with an undiagnosed and untreated broken neck that was causing him so…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A pro-charter school organization and the four Nashville school board candidates it backed last month could face harsh punishments for campaign disclosure violations. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2cYOyQz ) reports that education advocacy group Stand for Children and…
PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. (AP) - A middle-school counselor in Tennessee is being called a hero after talking a teenager into handing over a loaded handgun. Media outlets report that a 14-year-old boy went to Sycamore Middle School Wednesday asking to…
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (AP) - The number of passengers flying Boutique Air in Muscle Shoals to Atlanta has continued to increase. The TimesDaily reports (http://bit.ly/2dhw8wa) the Shoals' commuter airline boarded 342 passengers last month compared to 330 in July. The…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it is investigating a church fire in Memphis. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke says crews put out a fire at New Salem Fellowship Ministries church at…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A student at East Tennessee State University has been arrested for disrupting a Black Lives Matter event on campus wearing a gorilla mask, carrying around a rope and trying to hand out bananas. Media report…
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Vermont prosecutor who disarmed a woman accused of fatally shooting a social worker outside a state office building is one of 25 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission announced…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Navy sailor from Indiana has received a medal for helping save the life of a woman involved in a car crash in Memphis. The Navy's Office of Community Outreach Public Affairs says Mass Communication Specialist…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Mexican consulate in Atlanta and the Memphis office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have renewed an agreement to fight workplace discrimination against immigrants. Under the memorandum of understanding renewed Tuesday, the consulate and…
Authorities say a Kentucky police officer has been arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring. Kentucky State Police said Wednesday that Oak Grove police Sgt. Benjamin R. Walden was among three people arrested after state police…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Board of Parole says the governor should not formally exonerate a man who spent 31 years in prison but was released after DNA evidence cleared him of the crime. News organizations report that the…
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Remains of U.S. troops who died in the Mexican-American War are being returned from Mexico for forensic study that might determine where they were from and how they died. Several sets of remains were expected Wednesday…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A federal magistrate judge has ordered Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold taken into custody until his February trial on allegations that he profited from the sale of electronic cigarettes to jail inmates. The Daily News Journal…
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks has pleaded guilty in federal court in Maine to 10 money-laundering counts. U.S. prosecutors say Gregory Logan, of St. John, New Brunswick, smuggled 250…
WAYNESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - With western cougars expanding their range, Tennessee wildlife authorities have confirmed that a cougar was documented in Wayne County for the first time earlier this month. News outlets report that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency confirmed…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - House Speaker Beth Harwell says a complaint filed against the House clerk is being brought by a lame-duck lawmaker who is angry about the expulsion of fellow Republican Rep. Jeremy Durham over a series of sexual…
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - City officials in Glendale have named a street after late country music star Marty Robbins, who was born in the Phoenix suburb in 1925. Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers (wires) helped unveil the new honorary sign near…
GRANTSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Amateur astronomers are signed up to watch the sky over central West Virginia this weekend. The third annual Calhoun Stargaze is set for Friday through Sunday at the Calhoun County Park in Grantsville. The park is…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - State officials have approved a $600,000 job training grant for a Volkswagen supplier in Chattanooga. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2cZ5tEF ) that the State Funding Board OK'd the FastTrack Job Training funds in a…
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - The parents of an 11-year-old boy who fatally shot an 8-year-old girl after she refused to show him her puppies are being sued for $10 million. The wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday in Jefferson County, Tennessee,…
