KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A trial is underway in a test case for an aggressive new approach against Knox County shoplifters that could land repeat offenders in prison for years. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1T74AES) reports that having been accused…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland Department of the Environment says Verso Corp. will pay a $10,000 settlement for two chemical spills that tainted the Potomac River last fall. Agency spokesman Jay Apperson said Thursday the amount is the same…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Middle Tennessee State University has named a new support center for military veterans who are students there in honor of country music singer Charlie Daniels and his wife, Hazel. MTSU President Sidney McPhee announced the honor…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Shelby County is home to more measles cases than the rest of the U.S. combined after an outbreak that began last week. The Commercial Appeal reports six cases so far have been confirmed in the county.…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A Portland, Tennessee, man faces multiple charges after leading police on a high speed chase in Kentucky. According to Kentucky State Police, Bret Chadwick was seen on Wednesday covered in blood and leaving the scene…
MANTACHIE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a 37-year-old Mantachie man is dead after being struck by lightning. Itawamba County Coroner Sheila Summerford tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Tim Edge was riding horses with his father Wednesday when lightning struck…
FULTON, Miss. (AP) - Itawamba County deputies are investigating an all-terrain vehicle accident that claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy in the Peaceful Valley community. Sheriff Chris Dickinson tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal the boy was on a…
MANTACHIE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a 37-year-old Mantachie man is dead after being struck by lightning. Itawamba County Coroner Sheila Summerford tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Tim Edge was riding horses with his father Wednesday when lightning struck…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - Officials have broken ground on a new solar energy facility in Hattiesburg. Mississippi Power Co. and Silicon Ranch Corp. are partnering to build the $100 million, 50 megawatt solar farm, which is expected to generate enough…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Deputies have arrested a Lucedale man after indictment on two counts of second-degree murder involving the deaths of two people in a New Year's Eve traffic crash in 2014. Sheriff Mike Ezell tells The Sun Herald…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A police roundup that netted two felony arrests, nine misdemeanor arrests and eight served warrants in Gulfport may seem insignificant in the scheme of crimes. However, Police Chief Leonard Papania tells The Sun Herald on Wednesday…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) - Police say a 75-year-old father shot and killed his son following an argument in a Pass Station convenience store parking lot. Pass Christian Police Chief Tim Hendricks tells local news outlets that 75-year-old Arnold Scarborough…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Middle Tennessee State University has named a new support center for military veterans who are students there in honor of country music singer Charlie Daniels and his wife, Hazel. MTSU President Sidney McPhee announced the honor…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has plans to visit Kentucky this week. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Chelsea Clinton will visit Lexington to help open the Hillary for…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a former Memphis police officer has been charged with raping a woman at a downtown parking garage. The Shelby County district attorney's office says 39-year-old Michael Smith was indicted Tuesday on charges of rape…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Shelby County Schools board has voted for three schools to go through the closure process and for three other schools to have their charter revoked. Media outlets report that Tuesday evening, the board approved SCS…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer says three schools have been awarded grants for projects to help combat urban heat island. Fischer said in a statement that the Knollenberg Foundation awarded a total of $10,000 to student groups…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington secretary of state says no one from her office will attend a national conference in Tennessee in part because of a bill signed by the governor there allowing counselors to refuse to treat patients…
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - Decades after "shop class" became known as a lesser alternative for children deemed unfit for college, vocational education is making a comeback in American high schools. States such as California, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The company behind Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is re-entering the single malt Scotch whisky market with an agreement to purchase The BenRiach Distillery Co. of Scotland along with three brands. Brown-Forman Corp. said Wednesday the deal…
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AP) - An Air Force enlisted man assigned to an elite military unit has been found guilty of sexual assault in a court-martial at Scott Air Force Base. The Belleville News-Democrat (bit.ly/24333el ) reports that…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The National Labor Relations Board is bringing an unfair labor practices complaint against Volkswagen for the German automaker's refusal to bargain with the United Auto Workers union at its lone U.S. assembly plant in Tennessee. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's Republican governor says he has signed a bill that allows mental health counselors to refuse to treat patients based on the therapist's religious or personal beliefs. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam told The Associated Press on…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Davidson County district attorney's office says jurors from Memphis will be selected for the retrial of a former Vanderbilt football player who will be retried for rape next month. DA spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The state of Tennessee has abruptly terminated a nearly $107 million contract with a testing company following repeated failures with the rollout of the new assessment…
FORT THOMAS, Ky. (AP) - "Heroin rush hour" has some telltale signs in northern Kentucky, like a car filled with people in their pajamas around 9 or 10 a.m. That's what police in Fort Thomas say. The Kentucky Enquirer reports…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A federal agency wants to remove floating houses from Tennessee reservoirs after a study shows that a large number of the homes have been built and docked over the past 10 years. The Johnson City…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear says his Republican successor is abusing his authority as governor. Beshear has accused Republican Gov. Matt Bevin of threatening to cancel road projects in Democratic districts unless state representatives switched to…
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A third worker has been fired from an Elizabethtown juvenile detention center stemming from an investigation into the death of a teenage girl. Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet spokesman Mike Wynn told WFPL that Lincoln…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles, a longtime civil rights leader who was present when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, has died in Memphis. He was 81. Erica Cunningham, an administrative assistant at Monumental Baptist…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Three people are dead and a fourth is injured following a series of shootings before dawn Wednesday in the Montgomery County town of Kilmichael. Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, says a…
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) - People living along a rural Anderson County road that has been the setting for dozens of accidents in recent years are taking legal action to try to force the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to limit the number…
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) - General Motors is expected to announce two factory investments on Wednesday that could add more than 800 jobs at plants in Tennessee and Michigan. The company has scheduled news conferences at factories in Spring Hill,…
FORT THOMAS, Ky. (AP) - A northern Kentucky police department has launched an anti-heroin unit tasked with patrolling highways, especially during what they call "heroin rush hour." The Kentucky Enquirer reports that Fort Thomas police launched a three-officer Heroin Interdiction…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police are investigating after a student was found dead inside a dorm room on the Vanderbilt University campus. Media outlets report that the body of a 20-year-old male was found early Wednesday inside Vanderbilt Hall. Paramedics…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Police are investigating after a body was found in the parking lot of a West Louisville school. Louisville Metro Police tell local media that authorities received a call reporting that a body was found Tuesday evening…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Federal agents said they used a "buy/bust" operation to arrest a felon who's been selling guns and offering his buyers a sample of crystal meth. Court documents say 34-year-old Russell Clack of Bay St. Louis was…
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A police department says it plans to begin helping drug addicts connect with treatment programs. The Courier-Journal reports the Jeffersontown Police Department said on Monday that it would begin an initiative on Aug. 1 that allows…
ONEIDA, Tenn. (AP) - The National Park Service is opening its Collections Preservation Center in East Tennessee next week to maintain items from five parks in Appalachia. A ceremony is set for 10 a.m. May 6 at the center in…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - On April 27, 2011, a series of tornadoes killed hundreds of people, injured thousands and reduced countless buildings to rubble across a swath of the U.S. More than 120 tornadoes were reported that day - one…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The Margaritaville Resort in Biloxi will host jobs fairs to fill 600 job openings. Local news outlets report that the resort will host jobs fairs from May 1-3 at the Biloxi Civic Center. Applicants are asked…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Four of five University of Mississippi students accused in an alleged October hazing incident have had charges against them dropped. An attorney for one of the students tells The Clarion-Ledger that Judge Mickey Avent ruled Monday…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A bill moving through the Missouri Legislature would limit public access to police body camera footage. Senators voted 30-0 on Tuesday to seal body camera footage until police investigations become inactive. The bill would also…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers are debating a proposed impeachment process that will decide if a push to oust Gov. Robert Bentley moves forward or withers because of inadequate support. The House of Representatives on Tuesday began debate on…
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill to hike the minimum wage this summer, but Democrats say it's a ploy to undermine a more ambitious minimum wage increase on the November state ballot. The Legislature will vote…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A battle over a Kentucky tax incentive for a religious theme park featuring Noah's Ark has ended in a win for the big boat. A state tourism board this week approved a sales tax rebate incentive…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Sen. Randy McNally is asking the attorney general to fight a court ruling requiring a recount of a 2014 vote that made it easier to restrict abortions in Tennessee. Eight voters who support abortion rights…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A task force appointed by Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell to come up with a plan to expand access to health care in Tennessee has met for the first time. State Democratic Party Chairwoman Mary Mancini…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's high school graduation rate is getting closer to the national average. The State Department of Education says the graduation rate has increased significantly from 2011 to 2015 while dropout rates have decreased. In a news…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke says the city will commit $1 million for an expanded camera system to cut down on violent crime. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports Berke made the announcement in his third annual…
