CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Tennessee middle school teacher who ran an after-school program will serve one year in prison for his guilty plea in a child sex case. Twenty-eight-year-old Brandon Kyle Hester was sentenced Friday in Montgomery County…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Jackson Public School District is expected to file a response to an audit conducted by the Mississippi Department of Education that resulted in a recommendation for a downgrade in the district's accreditation status. The Clarion-Ledger…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Officials say a 29-year-old man has drowned after falling into a pond at the Lexington Cemetery. Local news outlets report the Fayette County Coroner's Office says 29-year-old Luis Arevalo Jimenez died following the incident Sunday morning.…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A 26-year-old Bay St. Louis man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a car that belonged to the mother of a double homicide victim. Bay St. Louis Police Chief Michael Denardo tells The Sun…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is asking for public comment on a draft environmental assessment for a proposed purchase agreement with a planned solar generating facility in McNairy County. TVA says it has tentatively approved a 20-year…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's chief justice has been elected president of the Conference of Chief Justices and chair of the National Center for State Courts board of directors. Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. was elected during the groups'…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium is looking for volunteer oyster gardeners with waterfront property. Extension specialist P.J. Waters says the program provides the "gardens." Those are wire cages about a foot or so long, seeded…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Bay St. Louis police say officers investigating a report of a missing person found two bodies and a wounded baby. Coroner Jim Faulk says 28-year-old Kristina Quintini and 29-year-old Norris Demeteris Mueller Jr. were…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee county's mental health court has reached capacity in just a few months and is asking the state for additional funding. The Commercial Appeal reports the extra funding would double the number of people served…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville International Airport is embarking on a $1.2 billion renovation aimed at changing virtually every aspect of a traveler's experience. The Tennessean reports projects planned in the next five to seven years include new parking, more…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a Nashville man has been charged in a human trafficking case involving a missing 12-year-old Texas girl. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that 36-year-old Tavarie A. Williams was…
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) - Bond is set at $1 million for a man accused in the death of an 88-year-old woman in northeast Alabama. Scottsboro police say 28-year-old Terrance Austin of Hollywood is charged with murder in the slaying of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's annual sales tax holiday is underway this weekend as parents prepare for children to return to school. Eligible items include clothing and school supplies costing less than $100 and computers sold for less than $1,500.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The case against Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith is a puzzle with the missing pieces of which may be hidden within sealed cases and hearings in Hinds County Circuit Court and the Mississippi Supreme…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A state judge has temporarily blocked Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's executive order abolishing and replacing the University of Louisville board of trustees. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd issued an order Friday morning temporarily stripping the new…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Louisville man is suing after he was denied a license to marry an inmate scheduled for another decade behind bars. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Bradley Jones filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday against Shelby…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An eastern Tennessee man has died after deputies say he hit his head against the pavement while resisting arrest. Attorney Troy Bowlin II told the Knoxville News Sentinel that 25-year-old Anthony M. Edwards of Sevierville was…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the 2016 spring inshore shrimp season will close Monday in the remainder of state inside waters except for the open waters of Breton and Chandeleur Sounds. This…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A private school tennis coach in Chattanooga has been arrested after buying $200 worth of methamphetamine during a police sting. The Times Free Press reports 51-year-old Philip Henry Johnson, the boys tennis coach at Baylor School…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Dollar General has bought 41 former Walmart Express stores in 11 states for an undisclosed sum. Included in the purchase are five locations in Mississippi: Belmont, Derma, Mantachie, Nettleton and Sardis. Dollar General has existing stores…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Representatives from the American Midstream gas pipeline will meet with Kingston residents facing loss of gas service. The meeting, which is scheduled for Aug. 9, will be at the Kingston Schoolhouse. The Natchez Democrat reports American…
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Southaven police have arrested 11 people in a drug bust that netted methamphetamine and crystal methamphetamine from a home in the Colonial Hills area. Police Chief Steve Pirtle tells The Commercial Appeal the drugs were found…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Prosecutors say a 28-year-old Gulfport man has admitted selling meth to an undercover narcotics officer and been ordered to serve five full years in prison. Assistant District Attorney Mitch Owen tells the Sun Herald Gulfport police…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - As a new school year approaches, billboards are going up in Kentucky to remind motorists to watch out for stopped school buses. The state Department of Education says about 45 billboards will warn of the danger…
GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) - Authorities have identified the man whose body was found in the Pascagoula River. Media outlets report that Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus announced Thursday that the man has been identified as 75-year-old Stephen Foster Krebs Sr.…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a Bristol lawyer has been charged with stealing from an estate for which he was serving as executor. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that it began investigating 70-year-old Don W. Cooper…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Phil Bryant's office says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will be back in Mississippi next month. News outlets report that he's to attend an event Aug. 24 in the Jackson area. Details were not released.…
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say they found three children living in a shed in Kentucky that had no electricity, no running water and a bucket containing human feces. The Boyle County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - A woman whose mother was killed decades ago says she was angry to learn that the Georgia man convicted of the crime went into hiding in Kentucky for nearly 40 years and is still alive. Billy…
SPRING CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A train carrying coal has derailed in Spring City. Local news outlets report that the incident occurred Thursday night near Highway 27. Dozens of boxcars carrying coal overturned, spilling large amounts of coal as a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has named David Purkey as the new commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety. The safety commissioner oversees law enforcement and homeland security issues in the…
COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - Home improvement retailer Lowe's is building a new fulfillment center in Robertson County, creating 600 jobs. Construction on the $100 million facility is set to begin immediately at the 110-acre site in Coopertown, about 25 miles…
CENTERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two men have been arrested after authorities say they led officers on a car chase, fired at a Hickman County deputy and then ran into the woods. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee appellate court says a man who believed Jesus commanded him to slaughter his father and stepmother in 1990 should be freed from the psychiatric hospital where he's been held for decades. The Knoxville News…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - For Republican Gov. Bill Haslam it's a happy coincidence that he can give a boost to embattled legislative incumbents while traveling the state to hand out community grant checks. Haslam is spending the week traveling to…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - A woman whose mother was killed decades ago says she was angry to learn that the Georgia man convicted of the crime went into hiding in Kentucky for nearly 40 years and is still alive. Billy…
DETROIT (AP) - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders tells delegates he's grateful for their support in his presidential bid but urged them to back his former rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Sanders said at a Thursday meeting of delegates from Michigan,…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - The mother of a transgender woman killed at a Mississippi hotel has learned the wounds her daughter suffered included "deep" stab wounds to her face. Vickie Whigham tells The Sun Herald the funeral home told her…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Police say an up-and-coming Gulfport hip-hop artist may have to put his career plans on hold after police say he robbed a bank. Gulfport police tell The Sun Herald 23-year-old Byron Michael Fairley robbed a BancorpSouth…
BLIOXI, Miss. (AP) - A grand jury has ruled Mississippi police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man whose weapon turned out to be a BB gun. Biloxi Police Chief John Miller says Wesley Sheppard of…
GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) - Police have found the body of a man in the Pascagoula River. Gautier Police Officer Matt Hoggart tells local media that shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, police were notified that a man had fallen overboard while…
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) - A woman whose 17-year-old son died after taking caffeine pills has asked the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors to ban sales of caffeine pills and powders to children and teens under age 18. The Daily Corinthian…
PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Two of three inmates who escaped from a jail in southeastern Kentucky are back in custody. TV station WATE reports 27-year-old Gary Mills turned himself in Wednesday in Knox County. That's after authorities recaptured 28-year-old Bobby…
IRVINE, Ky. (AP) - The Appalachian Regional Commission has approved $500,000 in funding to expand sewer service in the eastern Kentucky city of Irvine. The money will be used to expand and upgrade the city's wastewater collection system and provide…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - University of Louisville trustees have accepted the resignation of embattled President James Ramsey, whose long tenure was dogged by scandal. The action by the school's new board at a special meeting Wednesday signals the end of…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - WTVA-TV reports that a municipal court has cleared former Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott on charges of speeding and drunk driving. The Dallas Cowboys draft pick appeared in Starkville Municipal Court on Wednesday to answer the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal officials say a cement manufacturer has agreed to invest about $10 million to cut emissions of air pollution at five of its plants in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas. Under a consent decree, Cemex Inc.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a suspect is in custody after a fatal shooting at a Memphis trucking company. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph says one person was killed and another person was wounded in the shooting at Hammond…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal officials say a cement manufacturer has agreed to invest about $10 million to cut emissions of air pollution at five of its plants in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas. Under a consent decree, Cemex Inc.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Hillary Clinton delegate from eastern Tennessee has been booted from the Democratic National Convention after a Bernie Sanders supporter says he became overly aggressive with her. Tennessee Democratic Party spokesman Spencer Bowers is quoted by…
