HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - The wet spring season is causing problems for western Kentucky farmers trying to get corn and soybeans planted. The Gleaner reports the farmers say they've been hurt by the recent series of thunderstorms and torrential rain…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Most people living in Oxford recognize the city's logo - a large "O'' with a tree floating in the middle. However, there are several variations of the logo, depending on which city department is using it.…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) - The 40th Blessing of the Fleet brought the Pass Christian community together for a Gulf Coast tradition. WLOX TV reports locals gathered at Pass Christian Harbor Sunday for food, dancing and a boat parade. Around…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Two Louisiana residents passing through Mississippi died in a one car accident. Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers responded to the wreck on U.S. Highway 61 South of Natchez at 12:24 p.m. Sunday. Adams County Coroner James Lee…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) -- Officials say four people are dead after a small private plane crashed north of the runway at the Tupelo Airport in Mississippi. Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the pilot…
PETAL, Miss. (AP) - Petal officials hope to annex about 9 square miles, which they say will help the city better plan for its future. The board of aldermen is expected to formally vote on the annexation at Tuesday's regular…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A new management district that its backers hope will make downtown Lexington cleaner and safer is getting a jump start thanks to a $25,000 loan from the city of Lexington. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the Lexington…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The 35th annual Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival and Games kicks off this weekend at Maryville College. It's the sixth year for the event at the school. Organizers say the weekend gives guests a chance to travel…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Any attorney who is working as in-house counsel in Tennessee for a corporation doing business here and does not have a Tennessee law license faces a July 1 deadline to register with the Board of Law…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is making another stop in Kentucky before the state's primary election. Clinton's campaign website says the former secretary of state will come to Transylvania University in Lexington on Monday night. Doors…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Skeletal remains have been discovered in Jackson. Jackson Police Department Commander Tyree Jones tells news outlets that the remains were discovered Sunday afternoon in a wooded area by people searching for a lost dog. Authorities believe…
COLUMBIA, Ky. (AP) - A Casey County woman who went missing has been found dead in her vehicle. Media outlets report that 54-year-old Carla Monday was reported missing by family members on Wednesday after she didn't show up for work…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - A small plane crashed and caught fire at the Sumner County regional airport, injuring the pilot. Mike McCartney, the owner of fixed based operator GTO Aviation, tells The Tennessean that Friday afternoon a small plane bounced…
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities are trying to determine why an East Tennessee man charged with aggravated kidnapping disappeared for more than a week with…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating after two men were killed in a shooting at a home in Montgomery County. Media outlets report the incident happened Thursday evening. The Clarksville Police Department says officers responded to the Clarksville residence,…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi has been awarded $1.4 million to finalize part of its Gulf restoration plans after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Director Gary Rickard says it's the first grant awarded…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has ordered a new trial for a Knoxville woman convicted in her husband's death after determining that another judge's addiction to prescription painkillers tainted her initial trial. Multiple media outlets report Senior Judge Paul…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis International Airport has closed one of three security checkpoints and relocated Southwest Airlines' ticket counter to the centermost lobby. The Commercial Appeal reports that the changes occurred Thursday. Southwest, which accounts for 18 percent of…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Democrat Cluster Howard won by the slimmest of margins in 2014, ousting a freshman Republican House member by a mere 14 votes in eastern Kentucky. Now Republicans are aiming to make him a one-and-done lawmaker in…
LUCAS, Ky. (AP) - Divers have recovered the body of a Warren County teenager who went missing on the Barren River Lake, southeast of Bowling Green. Glasgow/Barren County Emergency Management Agency Director Tracy Shirley tells news outlets that divers found…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A former doctor with offices in Louisville and southern Indiana has been sentenced to 100 months in prison for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs. Jamie Guerrero agreed to pay $827,000 in restitution to victims as part of…
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) - Authorities in northeastern Mississippi have discovered the body of a man who had been shot multiple times. Alcorn County Sheriff Ben Caldwell tells news outlets that deputies found the body on the side of a road…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 53-year-old Gulfport man indicted on a charge of using the Internet to coax a 13-year-old to have sex with him in front of her mother faces 10 years to life in prison if found guilty.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The mayor of Jackson has suggested that the city needs to make cuts, as it has exhausted its fund balance and dipped into emergency reserves. The Clarion-Ledger reports that during a Thursday budget meeting Mayor Tony…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Two men and a woman indicted on meth-trafficking charges have pleaded not guilty in the seizure of crystal meth and buckets of wastewater said to contain meth flushed down a toilet. The Sun Herald reports 36-year-old…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 53-year-old Gulfport man indicted on a charge of using the Internet to coax a 13-year-old to have sex with him in front of her mother faces 10 years to life in prison if found guilty.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis International Airport has closed one of three security checkpoints and relocated Southwest Airlines' ticket counter to the centermost lobby. The Commercial Appeal reports that the changes occurred Thursday. Southwest, which accounts for 18 percent of…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A Smokies backcountry shelter is closed after a camper was bitten by a bear. According to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Bradley Veeder, of Las Vegas, was sleeping in a tent near the Spence Field…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - An organization of veterinarians who work with animal reproductive biology has given its highest honor to a professor at Mississippi State University. The American College of Theriogenologists has named Richard Hopper its "Theriogenologist of the Year"…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Hattiesburg Fire Department has a new logo thanks to graphic design students at the University of Southern Mississippi. A university news release says the logo was designed by Cody Bass, of Brandon, Mississippi. Bass was…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, a driving force in the Republican boom in Tennessee, is taking a final victory lap before retiring from politics. Ramsey will be honored at the state GOP's annual Statesmen's Dinner in Nashville…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Four U.S. citizens have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government in the West African nation of Gambia. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota said Thursday the men…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says he doesn't have any regrets about sitting out this year's presidential campaign. The Tennessee Republican in 2014 floated his name as a potential candidate, but announced by early the next year…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to stealing money from the charity he created to benefit the people of Newtown following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Robert Bruce apologized in federal court in Connecticut…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - East Tennessee State University and Mountain States Health Alliance are together hoping to bring a nonprofit methadone and burenorphine treatment center to Gray. Media outlets report that the two institutions held a news conference Wednesday…
OOLTEWAH, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to a conviction in the fatal shooting of a bald eagle in Hamilton County earlier this year. The U.S. Fish…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The University of Minnesota says the new chancellor for the university's Morris campus has abruptly withdrawn his candidacy. The university announced Thursday that Rodney Hanley had withdrawn, the day before his appointment was to be formally announced.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new marker inside the doors of the Tennessee Supreme Court in Nashville celebrates the building's inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. When it was completed in 1937, it marked the first time the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The speakers of the Tennessee House and Senate say they don't expect any more vetoes from fellow Republican Gov. Bill Haslam. Sen. Ron Ramsey and Rep. Beth Harwell told reporters on Thursday that they hadn't heard…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - ABC said it's canceling the country music drama series "Nashville" after four seasons. The network's decision Thursday drew an immediate lament from the city of Nashville's mayor, Megan Barry. In a statement, Barry called the news…
HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities say the 57-year-old man accused of abducting his niece from school more than a week ago was captured by two men who held him at gunpoint until law enforcement could arrive. …
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A hiker says he was bitten by a bear as he slept along the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Park spokeswoman Dana Soehn tells local media that the 49-year-old hiker told authorities…
GLUCKSTADT, Miss. (AP) - A 2-year-old girl has been found dead inside her mother's car at a Mississippi daycare. According to multiple media reports, Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker says the mother thought she had taken her child to Little…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The Army says a 101st Airborne Division soldier has died from injuries suffered during a live-fire training exercise at Fort Polk, Louisiana. A statement from Fort Campbell says the soldier died May 10 after participating…
POPLARVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Pearl River Community College's Board of Trustees has approved a small tuition increase. WDAM-TV reports tuition will increase by $100 per semester, to $1,425 or $2,850 per year, effective with the fall 2016 semester. PRCC President…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Attorney's office in Louisville says the owner of a Virginia computer sales company has pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple wire fraud charges related to the theft of about $809,000. Mark Allen Hartley,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a drive-by shooting outside a nightspot in Memphis. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Wednesday that Tony Bruins is accused of leaning out…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a worker at a Knoxville steel mill. Knoxville police have said 55-year-old Anthony McDowell was working in a storage area of Gerdau Ameristeel when…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A $15 million expansion at TAG Manufacturing is expected to add 200 jobs with the maker of assembled steel parts for construction. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/24LoFfu ) that the company owned by brothers…
