CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Hamilton County District Attorney General is trying to ban known gang members from partaking in a number of activities within a roughly two-mile "safety zone," including being around other gang members. News outlets report that…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A prosecutor says a white Memphis police officer won't face federal civil rights criminal charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old black man. U.S. Attorney Edward Stanton told reporters Tuesday that a federal review found…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee's law school dean says a professor will not face disciplinary action for a Twitter post that called on drivers to run over demonstrators blocking traffic in Charlotte, North Carolina. In a post…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Metro Nashville Police have identified the 30-year-old California man who was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt while walking with a friend in downtown Nashville. Police Capt. Gregory Blair tells local news outlets that…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee had opted against giving athletic director Dave Hart a contract extension with a raise before he announced his retirement, according to documents obtained in a public records request. In an Aug. 10 email, University of…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say two boaters reported missing since Saturday have been found dead aboard their boat on Chickamauga Lake. According to local media reports, Kristy D. James and Mike L. Richardson were found Monday in their boat…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Construction is starting this week on the first blockhouse to be part of Nashville Metro Parks' new Fort Nashborough Interpretive Center. The center will be located on the Cumberland River's west bank in downtown Nashville. The…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama city known for being the first capital of the Confederacy is set to become the site of a privately funded memorial to black lynching victims in the United States. The nonprofit group Equal Justice…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - School officials have dropped most of the Tennessee middle school social studies standards involving Islam as part of newly proposed standards. The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/2dl9y8K ) reports that an entire section on Islam currently taught to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville Metro police say a 2-year-old child accidentally shot his 12-year-old relative in the leg. News outlets report that the unidentified toddler removed a revolver from a side compartment in his aunt's vehicle and inadvertently shot…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - When Brianna Barker spots the big blue "Tennessee welcomes you" sign about an hour into her car trip, she breathes a little easier. Barker crosses the state line from Alabama to Tennessee every time she goes…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is withdrawing from the Affordable Care Act marketplace in the Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville regions. In a news release, the company says the change will affect an estimated 100,000 Tennesseans. The decision…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former state Rep. Jeremy Durham, who earlier this month became the first lawmaker expelled from the Tennessee General Assembly in 36 years, was escorted from a University of Tennessee football game on Saturday after getting into…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee State University is hosting a public memorial service for famed track and field coach Ed Temple, who led the school's Tigerbelles to 13 Olympic gold medals. Classes and meetings at the historically black university will…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A young man has pleaded guilty to killing his father as jury selection was set to begin for his trial in East Tennessee. The Greeneville Sun reports 18-year-old Zachary Thomas Blanchard was sentenced to 30 years…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An annual baiting program to help prevent rabies in raccoons begins Monday in Tennessee. The Tennessee Department of Health is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the project. Oral rabies vaccine for wild raccoons…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A California man has been shot and killed while running from an apparent robbery attempt in downtown Nashville. Metro Nashville Police spokeswoman Kris Mumford tells local news outlets two men from Los Angeles were walking early…
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a fatal shooting at an East Tennessee plant occurred while an employee was meeting with his supervisors. TBI spokeswoman Susan Niland said on Friday that the investigation indicates 45-year-old Ricky…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee State University's marching band is performing Friday on the east lawn of the White House in celebration of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Smithsonian Institution's new museum…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam and Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner are traveling to Chattanooga to get their annual flu vaccinations and encourage other Tennesseans to follow suit. The governor and commissioner are scheduled to receive their shots at…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Environmental attorneys and an energy company are going to court over the confidentiality of documents related to an ongoing oil leak from an offshore site damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The Louisiana Environmental Action Network…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - An Adams County man faces a murder charge for the New Year's Day shooting death of another man. Sheriff Travis Patten tells The Natchez Democrat 21-year-old Jovan Singleton was arrested Wednesday for the Jan. 1 death…
. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Police have arrested a second person in connection with one of two sexual assaults near the University of Louisville campus. News outlets report that according to a Louisville Metro Police citation, 18-year-old Dezmeontai Tinsley was…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Islamic Center of Nashville is suing the state in federal court after it says it was denied a tax exemption. The Tennessean reports that the lawsuit, filed Monday, argues the center's religious tax exemption for its…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Council members in Nashville have approved an ordinance that allows police to reduce the penalty for people who possess a small amount of marijuana. The Tennessean…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Young musicians with the Stax Music Academy are scheduled to perform at the grand opening festival for the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Members of the academy, which…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police say one person is dead, and two others have been injured in a shooting at a Jackson apartment complex. Local media outlets report the shooting happened at the Hallmark Gardens Apartments on Northside Drive early…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - The city of Tupelo has for the first time collected more than $20 million in sales tax revenue during a single fiscal year. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that record-setting milestone caps off a fiscal…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - An alley once littered with trash bins will make its debut as a brick-paved and art-filled downtown walkway Oct. 2, the same day Gulfport hosts View the Cruise, part of the opening festivities for Cruisin' The…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A motorcyclist has died after McCracken County sheriff's deputies say he was hit by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. The McCracken County Sheriff's Department says in a statement that just before 5 p.m.…
VANCLEAVE, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi authorities say a 74-year-old Texas man died in Jackson County after his Chevrolet Corvette was hit from behind. Deputy Coroner Jason Moody tells The Sun Herald Lucky Everett, of Houston, was pronounced dead at the…
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - The owners and four officials of a company that abandoned 7,800 tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant at Camp Minden in northwest Louisiana are scheduled for their first appearance in federal court. Magistrate Judge Mark Hornsby…
FLORENCE, Miss. (AP) - A woman in Rankin County has died in an all-terrain vehicle accident. Rankin County Coroner David Ruth tells local news organizations that the woman died Sunday after the ATV she was riding flipped on top of…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Great Smoky Mountains National Park has several service projects planned for Saturday in recognition of National Public Lands Day. The public can join park staff to participate in the volunteer effort to help out. A…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a man in Tennessee on charges of threatening to kill members of Hawaii's congressional delegation. Keahiokahouna Stewart was taken into custody at his Murfreesboro home on Friday. According…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Figures show metropolitan Memphis is no longer the nation's poorest large metro area following a drop in the local poverty rate last year. News agencies report the latest U.S. Census data, released Thursday, reveals that an…
COKER CREEK, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is apologizing after it ripped up a portion of the Trail of Tears in the Appalachian Mountains. The damage has reopened wounds for Native Americans who consider the land sacred. The…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The police chief of a small Mississippi town who shot himself last week after being suspended has been laid to rest. The Sun-Herald newspaper reports Friday that Bay St. Louis Police Chief Mike De…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials say the state's preliminary unemployment rate for August climbed slightly from the previous month. Tennessee Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips said in a news…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Virtual Library has named a new director. She is Ilona N. Burdette, who has been director of library services for 17 years at St. Catharine College. She was previously director of Marion County Public…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Department of Public Health reports it has confirmed that the flu virus is circulating in parts of the state. The agency says in a news release that 10 cases have been confirmed in Bullitt,…
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Five people have pleaded not guilty in East Tennessee to charges that they conspired to import and sell military-style boots made in China to the U.S. military, government contractors and the public as being made in…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Jackson man sentenced to nearly five years for bankruptcy fraud has been ordered to pay restitution of $5.4 million. U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, in a news release Thursday, said U.S. District Judge Tom S.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say five inmates have been charged with starting a fire inside the Cocke County Jail. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that agents investigated a fire that was set inside the jail on Aug.…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Civil Rights leader Diane Nash recently gave a speech to Middle Tennessee State University students as part of the school's observance of Constitution Week. The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro reports that Nash spoke Wednesday about…
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) - Officials at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area are looking for volunteers on National Public Lands Day to help clean up trails. A statement from Land Between the Lakes says it wants people who…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Registry of Campaign Finance has launched an investigation into an education advocacy group's actions during Nashville school board elections. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2co45cw ) that the panel decided Wednesday that there were enough questions…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Knox County man is facing up to 40 years in prison after admitting to drinking a half-gallon of moonshine before crashing his car and killing his 10-year-old son and seriously injuring his 11-year-old nephew. The…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say the man accused of placing a pipe bomb in an employee's car outside a suburban Nashville nursing home was trying to kill his estranged wife. Citing…
Work to bring back whooping cranes and turtles received top honors in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' 2016 North American Conservation Awards, while the group's international award recognizes gorilla conservation. Nine U.S. zoos were recognized for a project to…
