PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Tourism dollars are flowing into Pike County as officials there report an increase of nearly $6 million in visitor spending in 2015. A release from the county's tourism board says the influx of spending is good…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A federal grand jury has accused a Knoxville man of setting up two fictitious companies to defraud elderly investors. A grand jury sitting in Chattanooga returned a seven-count indictment against 50-year-old John Allen Morris on Tuesday.…
FLORA, Miss. (AP) - Emergency responders say an Amtrak passenger train and a pickup truck have collided in Flora, a small town in the southwestern corner of Madison County. Authorities told WLBT-TV that at least three people, including two toddlers,…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Murfreesboro woman is facing child neglect charges after her toddlers were found wandering a parking lot by themselves. Media outlets report that residents found the 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old boy in the lot Sunday and…
ENGLISH, Ind. (AP) - A southern Indiana group will dedicate a marker next month for a soldier who fought in the War of 1812 before settling in Indiana. The marker dedication for Pvt. Philip Crecelius will be June 5 at…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport will soon offer daily flights to Atlanta. The Bowling Green Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1WCGZTO) the announcement was made Tuesday. Officials say that Contour Airlines of Smyrna, Tennessee, will offer two…
WHITWELL, Tenn. (AP) - Officials are investigating after a body was found in a pawn shop while firefighters were putting out a blaze. The fire at the Valley Pawn Shop in Whitwell was reported late Tuesday afternoon. Marion County Sheriff…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam is questioning the need for a special legislative session that some fellow Republican lawmakers want to have called over a directive issued by President Barack Obama's administration that public schools must allow students…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee high school basketball coach has been indicted on four counts of failing to report child sexual abuse of high school basketball players by teammates. The Hamilton County district attorney's office announced Wednesday that a…
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas-based Simmons First National Corp. has announced plans to purchase Tennessee-based Citizens National Bancorp Inc. in a $77 million deal. Simmons said in a news release Wednesday that the purchase includes 835,741 shares of Simmons…
LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) - A 29-year-old George County woman is due in court in June on charges she was impaired by drugs when she was involved in a deadly collision in 2015. That's according to court records. The Sun Herald…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - A total of 72 Jackson County Animal Shelter dogs and cats were put into a Humane Society of South Mississippi van and sent off to the Atlanta Humane Society to find their forever homes. The Sun…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Biloxi police are looking for two men in the theft of 400 pounds of shrimp taken from the deck of a woman's boat. Police Sgt. O'Neal Adams tells The Sun Herald the shrimp, in two large…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have identified the child who was struck and killed by an SUV and the driver involved in the incident. Clarksville police spokeswoman Natalie Hall tells media outlets that 27-year-old Joseph Pennington was leaving a parking…
MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) - A beekeeper in Pike County says he suspects that a black bear has marauded some of his hives. Glen Roberts tells the McComb Enterprise-Journal (http://bit.ly/1TitKRX ) that he first noticed something was amiss Monday evening after…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials are seeking proposals from local leaders for projects that will attract new industry and more jobs to Appalachia. A statement says the Cabinet of Economic Development and the Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The president of the Tennessee Hospitality and Tourism Association has been selected as the chairman of the International Society of Hotel Association Executives. Greg Adkins, a former councilman in Nashville, heads the state group that represents…
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - The state Ethics Commission has imposed a $500 fine on Columbus Mayor Robert Smith after finding that he violated a Mississippi Open Meetings Act last year. The Dispatch reports the penalty stems from a complaint the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The International Parking Institute is holding its annual meeting in Nashville this week. Organizers say more than 3,500 people from 45 countries are expected to attend the event starting Wednesday. Topics of discussion will include the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Longtime U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. says he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Duncan told the Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/203FGe4 ) on Tuesday that the cancer was found six or seven months ago during a…
NEW YORK (AP) - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Guy Clark has died. Clark died Tuesday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, according to his manager, Keith Case. He was 74 and had been in poor health, although Case didn't give an official…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee has entered a contract with Pearson Education to have it score the TNReady assessments this year after the previous vendor was fired this spring. News outlets…
ATLANTA (AP) - A south Alabama police chief says he has a few leads but still no answers to explain how a box of human ashes was abandoned, along with a neatly folded, framed American flag, beside a highway near…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Shelby County school board has backed off of an initial vote to close two high schools at the end of this school year. News outlets report that the board on Monday decided to delay a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Nashville International Airport has begun using an abandoned quarry to halve its cooling costs by taking advantage of the reservoir's year-round 50-degree temperature. Christine Vitt is the airport authority's vice president of strategic planning and…
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - An attorney for a woman accused in a string of armed jewelry store robberies across the South says some of the charges against her should be dismissed because they don't qualify as a "crime of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say an officer was injured when he was hit by a car in a parking lot. Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee said officers were responding to a call about a suspicious person at a business…
PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) - A two-time Olympian who later became the first black woman to coach at Ohio State has been killed in a car crash in Ohio. The State Highway Patrol says 74-year-old Mamie Rallins died Monday in…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have euthanized a black bear that they believe bit a sleeping Appalachian Trail hiker last week. The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that park wildlife technicians shot the bear with…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has named Ohio emergency operations administrator Patrick Sheehan as the new director of Tennessee's disaster response agency. Sheehan takes over as director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency from David Purkey, who remains assistant…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Polling places for the primary election have opened in Kentucky as light rain falls across much of the state. The forecast called for widespread showers early Tuesday and scattered showers later in the day with high…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A 49-year-old Mississippi man found guilty of five counts of shooting deer with the aid of a light has been ordered to pay over $11,000 in fines by a Tunica County judge. The Clarion-Ledger reports Donald…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 2-year-old girl has been struck and killed by a vehicle in Clarksville. Clarksville police spokeswoman Natalie Hall tells media outlets that the incident occurred Monday evening in South Clarksville. The girl was taken to Tennova…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Forrest County Board of Supervisors has voted to help the Hattiesburg-Laurel Regional Airport with emergency repairs necessitated by flood damage incurred in early March. The Hattiesburg American reports board members agreed at Monday's meeting to…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Jury selection is underway in the sex crimes case against a Pascagoula man. The Sun Herald reports a Jackson County grand jury indicted David Epps on 11 counts of sexual battery and eight counts of touching…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - A man has been arrested after police say he stole an RV and led officials on a chase through Georgetown. WKYT-TV reports that Monday morning, 30-year-old Jason Judd stole an RV from Northside RV's in Georgetown.…
RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) - A woman who collapsed while running a race in Ridgeland has died. Ridgeland Police Chief John Neal tells news outlets that 42-year-old Donna Stamps suffered a medical emergency while running the Magnolia Meltdown race Saturday morning.…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Hattiesburg Police Department has added another officer to the ranks. WDAM-TV reports Zach Robinson was sworn in by Mayor Johnnyh DuPree during brief ceremony at city hall Monday. Robinson began at the police department in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Fifteen Tennessee communities have been selected to receive state grants to prepare sites for economic development projects. The grants will go toward completing infrastructure and engineering improvements for certified sites in rural communities. The grants averaging…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Just a week after voting to scrap an unfinished 1970s-era nuclear power plant in Alabama, the Tennessee Valley Authority began taking steps toward possible future construction of small modular reactors. TVA spokesman Jim Hopson says several…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. attorney's office in Memphis has reached a settlement with Methodist Healthcare over allegations that it did not provide effective communication with a deaf patient under the American with Disabilities Act. In a statement released…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of low-income students in nearly two dozen states will soon be able get federal grants to take college courses while still in high school, part of a program the Obama administration plans to begin this summer.…
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man accused of taking his 9-year-old niece out of school and disappearing with her for more than a week says he doesn't understand why he is charged with kidnapping. Gary Simpson was found with the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, who opposed a transgender bathroom bill in the Tennessee Legislature, is speaking out against a directive by President Barack Obama's administration that public schools must allow students to use facilities consistent with…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A new study from the University of Illinois says the level of nitrates from farm fertilizer and other sources that add to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone has dropped in recent years. Professor Greg McIsaac…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A 24-year-old Chattanooga man charged with killing an unborn child has a court hearing later this month. Chattanooga Police say he beat the child's mother, a 15-year-old pregnant girl. Chattanooga Police say Justin Armour attacked the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An autopsy report released in a fatal helicopter crash last month in Sevier County shows the pilot had no alcohol or drugs in his blood. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1TWlXLK ) reports the autopsy was performed…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The second-ranking leader of the Mississippi Senate has been charged with DUI after a one-vehicle wreck. Republican Sen. Terry Burton of Newton was charged after running a sport utility vehicle off of Interstate 20 and hitting…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge says Mississippi's Cleveland school district must merge its high schools and middle schools to achieve racial desegregation. U.S. District Judge Debra Brown handed down the ruling late Friday, nearly a year after she…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new proposal says Nashville's Music Row should be designated a "cultural industry district" by Metro government. The Tennessean reports the recommendation comes from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the local Music Industry Coalition,…
