NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials with the Tennessee Poison Control Center are warning that they are seeing an increasing number of toxic exposures, mostly involving children, to essential oils used in aromatic and homeopathic natural remedies. TPC, which is housed…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville Symphony has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. According to the symphony, it will use the $25,000 Art Works grant to support two performances and a live recording of…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The assistant principal at a Tennessee high school where basketball players are accused of raping younger teammates has been sentenced to community service and a class on mandatory reporting for failing to report the abuse. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Safety Commissioner Bill Gibbons is leaving Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration. Gibbons, a former Memphis prosecutor, joined the Haslam administration in December 2010. He had previously been a rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination and had…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who drew a BB gun at a screening checkpoint at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in March made his first appearance in federal court and has been ordered held in jail. Larry Dawson appeared Wednesday…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The National Transportation Safety Board has backed the findings of a police investigation of a 2014 crash between Knox County school buses that killed two children and a teachers' aide. The federal agency found driver James…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Four Mississippi residents are clear of any risk of measles but officials are monitoring three others. Health Department spokeswoman Liz Sharlot says all seven are residents of north Mississippi. She says the three at risk are…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The city of Franklin has agreed to take steps to further limit pollution of the Harpeth River from its sewage treatment plant. The settlement between Franklin and the Harpeth River Watershed Association was filed in federal…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Americana darling Jason Isbell leads the nominations for the Americana Music Association's Honors and Awards with three nods for album of the year, artist of the year and song of the year. The nominations were announced…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An auditor says he believes the number of restraints used on students in Jefferson County Public Schools is underreported. The Courier-Journal reports auditing firm Dean Dorton found in a report released Tuesday that JCPS has a…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Phil Bryant has signed four bills to consolidate some Mississippi school districts. The governor's office says he signed them Wednesday. Senate Bill 2495 (http://bit.ly/1UT1B8u ) consolidates the Winona and Montgomery County districts on July 1,…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two administrators at a Knoxville high school will return to work after being suspended as part of an investigation into whether they immediately reported child sexual abuse. Citing written reprimands provided by a Knox County Schools…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee general fund tax collections are beating projections by nearly $700 million through the first nine months of the budget year. The Legislature adjourned last month without taking most of the surplus tax collections into account,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Democratic speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives has called a news conference to discuss "new litigation," his spokesman said. Greg Stumbo says he will talk to the media at 2 p.m. in his office…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) - Twenty-four people are in the running for Pass Christian school superintendent. Among the candidates are four superintendents, five assistant superintendents, a former superintendent, a curriculum/professional development coordinator, a chief academic officer, two executive directors of…
WINONA, Miss. (AP) - An ex-convict accused of killing the mother and grandmother of his 12-year-old son as well as another man is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Odell Hallmon has been jailed without bond since his arrest on…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's top election official says she expects 20 percent of Kentucky's more than 3.2 million registered voters to cast ballots in Tuesday's primary elections. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said more than 12,000 people have…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A 25-year-old man has been arrested in the triple slaying of two men and a woman who were gunned down inside a northern Memphis duplex last year. Citing an arrest affidavit, news outlets report that Demarco…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Police say a woman accused of shoplifting at the Super Wal-Mart in Gulfport ran back into the store to avoid arrest and punched, pushed and scratched a police officer. Sgt. Damon McDaniel said in a news…
HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say rescue crews have been called out to help people trapped by high water after heavy rain in Middle Tennessee. A flash flood emergency warning was issued Wednesday morning for Sumner, Macon and Trousdale counties…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Authorities are still searching for an Alvaton teenager who went missing on the Barren River Lake. The Bowling Green Daily News reports officials say it is believed that 19-year-old David Heard went missing Monday from…
SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say a man and woman have died after being hit by a train in Pulaski County. Media outlets report the incident happened Tuesday evening. Police say the two were crossing the track when they were…
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - Business and home owners have begun cleaning up after severe storms spawned a tornado in western Kentucky and left at least 10 people with minor injuries. Rick Shanklin with the National Weather Service says forecasters think…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Entergy says the future is bright as they begin to test solar power possibilities in Mississippi. A field full of solar panels is much different from the traditional power grids. The massive transmission lines and the…
PURVIS, Miss. (AP) - The suspect in last weekend's shooting in Lamar County that left one woman dead remains behind bars. During an initial appearance Tuesday in Lamar County Justice Court, The Hattiesburg American reports Judge Bill Anderson denied bond…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A worker at the Gerdau steel mill in Knoxville has been killed after materials collapsed on him. Media outlets report that the Knoxville Fire Department responded to the Gerdau Ameristeel plant just before 8 p.m. on…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Police say a woman whom store officials said was shoplifting at the Super Wal-Mart in Gulfport ran back into the store to avoid arrest and punched, pushed and scratched a police officer. Sgt. Damon McDaniel said…
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) - Two billboard companies have refused to display an advertisement by an atheist group to protest the Ark Encounter amusement park in Grant County. Tri-State Freethinkers president Jim Helton tells media that group recently raised $10,000 for…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Employees of three Mississippi marine agencies have herded a dolphin trapped for three weeks in Simmons Bayou back into the Mississippi Sound. Moby Solangi of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport tells The…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials say physician services company TeamHealth is expanding its current headquarters in Knoxville. In a news release, Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd said TeamHealth will invest $6.7 million to…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Matt Bevin has announced a number of appointments to the Kentucky State Fair Board. The board oversees operations for the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, located at the state fairgrounds, and the Kentucky International Convention…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As officials in New Jersey await the winner of Saturday's $429.6 million Powerball game, a California Lottery representative says he's losing hope that his state's ticket-holder for a world-record January jackpot will ever come forward. Winners…
WASHINGTON, Maine (AP) - Investigators say a Tennessee man charged in connection with a five-vehicle crash in southern Maine was under the influence and speeding at the time of the March accident. A Knox County grand jury indicted 54-year-old Randall…
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - A company is opening a call center in Spartanburg and will create 400 jobs during the next five years. The company, Sitel, says it is investing $2.5 million to renovate an existing facility. Sitel is headquartered…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Reagan Day fundraisers have been a staple of GOP politics ever since the Great Communicator promoted the 11th Commandment against speaking ill of fellow Republicans. But in the conservative suburbs east of Nashville, the event has…
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. (AP) - An alternative energy company says it wants to buy TVA's unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant for $38 million cash. But the federal utility says the upcoming plant sale won't work that way. Phoenix Energy of Nevada said…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The American Counseling Association has cancelled its plan to hold a conference in Nashville next year in protest of Tennessee passing a counseling law that allows therapists to decline to see patients based on religious values…
BOONVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A mid-Missouri county has issued an Amber Alert for a missing girl from Tennessee. The Cooper County Sheriff's Department issued the alert Tuesday for 9-year-old Carlie Trent after she was possibly seen Monday near Otterville. Carlie…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Middle Tennessee family says their newborn daughter suffered serious burns after a piece of equipment malfunctioned at a Nashville hospital. Sean Boyd, the father of Aminah Boyd, told WSMV-TV last week that his daughter was…
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) - A house north of Richmond has become the sixth home in Central Kentucky that state police think were recently burglarized and then set on fire. Trooper Robert Purdy tells news outlets that a Madison County home…
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - A former color guard instructor at an Owensboro high school will be sentenced to five years in prison after having been accused of sexually abusing several male and female students over three years. The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Former state Rep. Don Pasley has resigned as an executive adviser to Attorney General Andy Beshear shortly after a newspaper informed Beshear's office that Pasley was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in March.…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted a man after authorities allegedly found about 11 kilos of cocaine in his RV. The Sun Herald reports 69-year-old Victor John Wendell Jr. will be arraigned Thursday on a three-count…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - More than two dozen Jefferson County Public Schools employees who work in the district's central offices have been informed that their positions have been eliminated to save money. The Courier-Journal reports that according to new organizational…
DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) - Bradley County officials say they have arrested the suspect in a Meigs County crash that killed four people. Media outlets report that 34-year-old John Wesley Bennett is accused of driving a dump truck that lost its…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An autistic student left his high school prom in tears Saturday because officials insisted that his date — his 24-year-old sister — was too old to enter. Their father, Tone Whisenhunt, says he was unaware of…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - A detective testified 3-year-old Zander Saucier had at least 30 wounds to his body, including suspected cigarette and lighter burns and bleeding on the brain, when he was brought to Singing River Hospital last month. The…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Six school districts in South Mississippi have been selected to participate in a state-sponsored computer science pilot program. The Mississippi Department of Education announced Hancock, Harrison, George, Pass Christian, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula school districts will…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's two most recent governors are feuding over the state's past and its future. Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear have publicly criticized each other more than any other governors in recent…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials say black bears are wandering around again after a winter in their dens and are looking for food. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says hungry black bears are roaming the mountains…
