PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - The wife of a Tennessee man who died during a scuba dive in the Florida Panhandle is suing the dive shop. The News Herald (http://bit.ly/2cf2TbT ) reports the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Panama City claims…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville Jack in the Box employee has been accused of setting up a robbery at the fast food restaurant. Citing a police report, news outlets report that 23-year-old Senquoia Miles was charged with aggravated robbery…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two men have pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting a 19-year-old after a dice game at Tennessee State University last year. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/2bJMlrh ) reports that on Wednesday, 20-year-old Robert Tunstall and 20-year-old Chris Gatewood…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a teenager has been shot and wounded near a Memphis high school. Memphis Fire Department senior operator Gerald Wilks tells local news organizations that the 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg Wednesday afternoon…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Arraignment is scheduled Sept. 19 for owners and officials of a company charged with conspiracy involving 7,800 tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant eventually abandoned at a Louisiana facility. They're accused of lying to get contracts…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam says the longtime director of the Tennessee State Museum is retiring. Lois Riggins-Ezzell, who has led the state museum since 1981, will step down at the end of the year. After that, she…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - An ex-basketball coach for three Tennessee high school students who were convicted of assaulting their teammate has asked a judge to dismiss charges against him. Media outlets report Andre Montgomery asked Wednesday that his four charges…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Leaders of two Baptist hospital systems say they're exploring a merger. Officials with Jackson-based Mississippi Baptist Health Systems and the larger Baptist Memorial Health Care of Memphis, Tennessee made the announcement Thursday. They say a merger…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Volkswagen is appealing a National Labor Relations Board ruling allowing a small group of employees at the German automaker's lone U.S. plant to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. Volkswagen filed an appeal Thursday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The National Labor Relations Board is ordering Volkswagen to engage in bargaining with a group of skilled trade workers who voted to be represented by the United Auto Workers union at the German automaker's lone U.S.…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal prosecutors in northwest Louisiana have unsealed a 32-count indictment against owners and officials of a company accused of leaving 7,800 tons of potentially explosive artillery propellant at a Louisiana National Guard facility. A news release…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Mississippi man has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of a Memphis minister. The Shelby County district attorney's office said 25-year-old Roger Reed Jr. was convicted Friday…
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - Demolition workers in Tennessee have taken down the last building in a massive Oak Ridge uranium enrichment complex built more than 70 years ago as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. The Knoxville News Sentinel…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Nashville say a 3-year-old boy has been taken to the hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the wrist. Multiple news agencies report that Metro Nashville police say officers were flagged down near Interstate…
ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say a Tennessee man has drowned along the South Carolina coast amid warnings of rip currents because of a tropical depression offshore. Local news outlets report 64-year-old Dwight Smith of Knoxville, Tennessee, died…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The former head of the Upper Cumberland Development District has pleaded guilty to federal theft charges. Media outlets report that 55-year-old Wendy Askins entered her plea Tuesday and will receive a sentence of 18 months behind…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a federal inmate has escaped from the Washington County Detention Center in Jonesborough. The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/2cce99d ) reports that 37-year-old Timothy England escaped from the facility early Tuesday. The Washington County Sheriff's…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out at a nuclear power plant in Spring City. Local news outlets report that crews responded to the fire at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tuesday night and extinguished the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Volkswagen's new SUV comes with a feature that automatically controls braking to each wheel as the seven-seater descends on slippery off-road terrain. The German automaker is staking its hopes on the new model being just as…
DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Highway Patrol says alcohol was involved in the wreck of a firetruck that overturned on its way to house fire. The Tennessean reports that the tanker truck carrying three Vanleer volunteer firefighters missed a…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A person familiar with the case says one Tennessee high school basketball player has been found guilty of aggravated rape and two others were found guilty of aggravated assault against a freshman teammate. The person spoke…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A former school bus driver from Alabama is awaiting extradition from Tennessee on capital murder and other charges in the shooting death of a 72-year-old woman whose car police say he stole. Huntsville police say 27-year-old…
DUNDALK, Md. (AP) - Under Armour is planning to open a distribution warehouse at the site of a former steel mill east of Baltimore. According to The Baltimore Sun, (http://tinyurl.com/jt77kfa) the Baltimore-based sports apparel company will employ 1,000 people at…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A terminally ill man with weeks to live has fulfilled a dying wish by marrying his girlfriend. The Daily News Journal reports (http://on.dnj.com/2bXAdqr ) Chris Ford and Nicole Wismer had planned to marry in October but…
HARRIMAN, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors in Roane County say a 15-year-old boy has shot and killed a soldier who was visiting his girlfriend between deployments. The office of the 9th Judicial District said in a statement that the teen fatally…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say an armored truck guard has been shot during an attempted robbery at a bank in Memphis. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph says a Brinks guard was taken to a hospital in critical condition after…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Volkswagen is planning to expand the test track at its Chattanooga plant so it can better evaluate the new SUV that is scheduled to be built at the facility later this year. The Chattanooga Times Free…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three Tennessee high school basketball players are in juvenile court to face charges that they raped a freshman teammate in an apparent hazing incident. The Sevier County Juvenile Court clerk's office confirmed a hearing for the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say 12 members of an organization that trafficked methamphetamine from California to Tennessee have been sentenced to more than 83 years in prison combined. The U.S. attorney's office said Monday that 12 defendants have been…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee sporting goods store has raised $40,000 by selling thousands of T-shirts to benefit the family of a fallen police officer. Maryville Officer Kenny Moats was shot in the neck just above his bulletproof vest…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has ordered that the Metropolitan Nashville Police make accident reports available to inspection within three days of the end of the shift of the officer who created the report. The Davidson County Chancery Court…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has begun searching for a new chancellor. According to the school, a search committee met on Friday and set a timeline to have the new leader in place during…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority says its chief operating officer will retire at the end of the year. Chip Pardee joined TVA in April 2013. According to a Monday news release, Pardee's contributions include improvements to the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The number of abortions performed in Shelby County has fallen sharply during the past five years. The Commercial Appeal reports (http://memne.ws/2bUCIcZ) that abortions in the county declined by 36.6 percent between 2011 and 2014, the most…
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - World Wrestling Entertainment says former star wrestler and manager Harry Fujiwara, better known as Mr. Fuji, has died. He was 82. An obituary on WWE's website says Fujiwara died Sunday morning. A WWE spokesman tells The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville judge has dismissed pop star Taylor Swift as a potential juror in an aggravated rape and kidnapping case. Davidson County District Attorney General's Office spokesman Ken Whitehouse says Swift told the judge on Monday…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a former Millington reserve police officer has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to child pornography charges earlier this year. The U.S. attorney's office says 67-year-old Rickie Friar…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A NASA astronaut will speak live from space with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler Jr. this week. Jeff Williams and his crewmates are staying 172 days aboard the International Space Station. They launched into…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a Georgia woman has been fatally struck by a vehicle after getting out of her car to look at a snake in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Multiple news agencies report that…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been arrested after being accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into his ex-girlfriend's Memphis home, causing a fire. Police tell WMC-TV that David McShan was taken into custody and charged with aggravated arson after…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority has approved a $10.37 billion budget for fiscal year 2017. President and CEO Bill Johnson has made diversifying TVA's energy generation fleet a priority. According to a news release from the utility,…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a police officer who was fatally shot in eastern Tennessee was responding to the second domestic disturbance in the same day at the home. Blount County Sheriff James Berrong said officers lacked probable cause…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two nonprofits will donate $100,000 to fight a fungus that's killing cave bats in many places, including Kentucky. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2bFQxIE ) reports that Bat Conservation International and the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A jury in Hamilton County has ruled that the city of Chattanooga failed to give police officers promised raises and to maintain fair conditions of employment. The Chattanooga Times Free-Press (http://bit.ly/2cfNnRc ) reports that on Thursday…
BALTIMORE (AP) - A judge has approved a $1.6 million settlement of a 16-year-old air-pollution lawsuit against a western Maryland paper mill. U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis signed the consent decree Friday involving the mill in Luke, currently owned by…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a security guard has been placed on a special type of probation in the death of a Memphis city bus passenger. Shelby County's district attorney's office says 52-year-old Adicus Mitchell was placed Friday on…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Fresh-cut vegetables are being recalled from grocery, discount and convenience stores across the Southeast because the food may be contaminated with potentially fatal Listeria bacteria. Conroe, Texas-based Country Fresh Inc. said Friday that the recall involves…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A police officer who was fatally shot responding to a dispute between a father and son in eastern Tennessee had been wearing a bullet-proof vest, but he was…
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Columbus officials have introduced a new app that aims to make it easier for citizens to report code violations. City Code Enforcement Officer Tomarris Jones tells The Commercial Dispatch the app, GORequest, officially went up for…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A 21-year-old man has been sentenced for the murder of a 15-year-old Jackson high school student. Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release Thursday Dennis Pickett appeared before Hinds County Circuit Court Judge William…
