CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee police detective charged with lying in court about a sexual assault case wants the local prosecutor taken off the case, saying there is a conflict of interest. Gatlinburg detective Rodney Burns was indicted May…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state lawmaker accused of sexually harassing female staff wants to prevent the results of an attorney general's office investigation from becoming public. State Rep. Jeremy Durham on Friday filed a lawsuit in which he claims…
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police say officers are on the scene of a fatal helicopter crash in western Kentucky. Police said one person died in the crash Monday in Graves County. He was identified as Tennessee Valley Authority…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Dozens of people attended a vigil in Louisville to protest the recent police killings of black men. The Courier-Journal reports the "Breaking White Silence" event began at noon on Monday outside Metro Louisville Police Department headquarters.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee woman charged with stabbing her four children to death will undergo a mental health evaluation to determine if she can face the upcoming legal proceedings against her. General Sessions Judge L. Lambert Ryan on…
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - An Elizabethtown police officer suffered a fractured skull after being dragged by a fleeing all-terrain vehicle during a traffic stop. The Elizabethtown Police Department says in a news release that 54-year-old officer Ron Caffee is in…
TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) - Forests throughout the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are undergoing a major ecological shift due to the widespread deaths of hemlock trees caused by an unwelcome insect. Forestry experts tell the Knoxville News Sentinel that hemlocks…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Davidson County Sheriff's Office is planning to cut charges for all inmate phone calls by over 60 percent in order to reduce the financial burden of jail on inmates and their families. The Tennessean reports…
LIBERTY, Ky. (AP) - Officials say a Casey County jail inmate is dead after he was found unresponsive in a restraint chair. The Advocate-Messenger reports Casey County Coroner Curt Demrow says 34-year-old Jerry Dale Hardwick was discovered by jailers at…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Officials with Aerojet Rocketdyne say assembly and testing of its AR1 advanced liquid rocket engine will take place at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. As a result, the company is expanding its Center…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis officials are asking protesters who occupied a key bridge over the Mississippi River Sunday night to attend a meeting where they can voice their concerns. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and Interim Police Chief Michael Rallings…
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - A 26-year-old West Point woman will no longer face a capital murder charge in the death of her son. District Attorney Scott Colom told The Commercial Dispatch his office has filed a motion to dismiss the…
WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) - Several agencies are searching for a 19-year-old who went missing while tubing on the Tennessee River in Humphreys County. Humphreys County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Rod Edwards tells local media that the search began around 4…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A 26-year-old Oak Grove woman found shot in her truck Saturday night has been identified. The Hattiesburg American reports Forrest County Deputy Coroner Jonathan Nobles identified the victim as Loretta Dewberry. Hattiesburg police spokesman Lt. Jon…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Those attending the Second Saturday Frida Fest weren't allowed to travel the streets of Old Town Bay St. Louis with portable adult beverages. But they soon will be. After more than a month of…
LONG BEACH, Miss. (AP) - Search crews used kayaks, a helicopter and four-wheelers in a two-hour search to find two men who had been reported missing on Wolf River for more than 30 hours. The Sun Herald reports firefighters found…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Lawmakers from 15 southern states took time out of the Southern Legislative Conference to help the hungry. Media outlets report that hundreds of volunteers packed meals Sunday morning at God's Pantry Food Bank in Lexington. Conference…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Volunteers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been honored for outstanding service. The park says the Cades Cove Bike Patrol team and Robert E. Lochbaum were selected for exemplary service from over 240,000 National…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Twenty oral history projects will receive about $55,000 in grants to support work on topics ranging from the Kentucky Chili Bun Trail in eastern Kentucky to the African-American experience in Hopkinsville. The Kentucky Oral History Commission…
MENDENHALL, Miss. (AP) - All three inmates who escaped from Simpson County Jail in June are back in custody. Simpson County Sheriff Donald O'Cain tells local news outlets that authorities arrested the third and final inmate, 43-year-old Johnny Lee Taylor,…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - The National Weather Service says strong to severe storms are expected to pass through Kentucky and Tennessee, a day after heavy rains caused flooding that prompted officials in both states to declare a state of emergency.…
PIKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the slayings of a Bledsoe County couple. News outlets report the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Bledsoe County Sheriff's Office detectives are searching for clues after 41-year-old James Songer and 49-year-old Robbin Martin…
NEW YORK (AP) - Comcast is greatly increasing how many home internet customers will face limits on how much data they can use before getting hit with extra charges. It's adding Chicago and says that caps will now cover 23…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in Tennessee say a man who opened fire on a highway in Tennessee targeted police officers and others because he was troubled by incidents involving black people and law enforcement officers. The Tennessee Bureau of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials say three Tennessee police officers have been disciplined for making potentially offensive social media posts, including one that referenced a police-involved shooting in Minnesota. Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said in a news release…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say a man who opened fire on a highway Thursday in Tennessee targeted police officers and others because he was troubled by incidents involving black people and law enforcement officers. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis police officials say the delayed rollout of body-worn cameras for city police officers has been further slowed by problems with the technology. News outlets report interim police director Michael Rallings announced the second phase of…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Longtime Scott County boys' basketball coach Billy Hicks, who grew up in Harlan County and played basketball at Evarts, is being inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi lawmaker who was charged with aggravated assault is accused of using a shovel while fighting in a suburban neighborhood. State Sen. Chris Massey of Nesbit, his father and two other men were arrested Thursday morning…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Meridian man is going to prison for purposefully setting fire to two houses. Attorney General Jim Hood, in a news release Thursday, said 52-year-old James Wiggins was sentenced on one count each of first-degree and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Promise scholars can perform community service hours with events planned across the state later this month. State parks and natural areas are offering the events on July 23 at all 56 parks. The student volunteers…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers in Memphis is holding a change of command ceremony next week. The Memphis District says Col. Jeffery A. Anderson will transfer command of the district to Col. Michael A. Ellicott Jr.…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training will receive more than $524,000 in federal funds for training courses aimed at reducing mining accidents, injuries and illnesses. The Mine Safety and Health Administration announced…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The principal and an assistant principal at a Tennessee high school where three basketball players face charges of raping a teammate won't be working in that school district in 2016-17. Stacy Stewart, the Hamilton County Department…
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - Police say multiple people have been injured and one person was taken into custody after a man opened fire on motorists traveling along a parkway in East Tennessee. Bristol police say in a statement it happened…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee death row inmate who told his ex-wife he fatally shot two teenage newlyweds has lost a bid to have his confession thrown out. The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Howard Hawk Willis' convictions…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee authorities are responding to a shooting involving Shelby County Sheriff's deputies that sent one person to a hospital. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Niland says agents are on the scene of Thursday's shooting in…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Olive Branch police chief says Mississippi state Sen. Chris Massey has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault after a fight in a subdivision. Chief Don Gammage tells The Associated Press that Massey, who's a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials have declared a state of emergency in Tennessee after heavy rains caused flooding in several areas overnight and more rain is forecast. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener said on Thursday that crews were…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville Zoo is asking for help in naming its 1-month-old white-cheeked gibbon. A $1 donation through July 31 gives visitors a chance to vote. The money goes to…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - An eastern Kentucky manufacturing plant on the brink of closing last year now plans to expand and hire 70 more workers. A statement from the governor's office says West Virginia-based Logan Corp.'s plant in Martin County…
VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky public high school juniors will have an opportunity to earn free high school and college credit at the same time starting this fall. The Kentucky Community and Technical College System said in a news release…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting death of a bald eagle in Hamilton County is up to $7,500. The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Wildlife…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police are looking for two men they say kidnapped a woman, sexually assaulted her and made her drive to several banks for cash. Media outlets report that Ridgeland Police recently released surveillance photos of the suspects.…
SUMRALL, Miss. (AP) - Sumrall police says they have arrested a 35-year-old man and charged him in the death of 44-year-old Kimberly Raynes, who was found dead May 18. Police Chief Chris Dungan tells The Hattiesburg American Donald King Jr.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Department of Education has offered a two-year, $60 million contract to Questar Assessment to administer standardized testing to students. The Tennessean reports that if Questar agrees to the contract, students in third through eighth…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Chattanooga's Erlanger Health System have signed a pair of agreements that bring Erlanger into a statewide network and open up future collaboration opportunities between the two academic medical institutions. News outlets…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Vanderbilt University football player convicted of encouraging his teammates to rape an unconscious woman in 2013 is facing a minimum of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in September. Nashville District Attorney…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Department of Education has offered a two-year, $60 million contract to Questar Assessment to administer standardized testing to students. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/29s4VVt ) reports that if Questar agrees to the contract, students in third…
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - A movie about the late Northern State University men's basketball coach Don Meyer is coming out on video this year. The Aberdeen American News (http://bit.ly/29mCfAP ) reports that a news release from entertainment production and distribution…
