LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Moving in synchronized slow motion, about a dozen men and women make gentle, flowing gestures with their bodies as soothing music helps create a feeling of peace and harmony. They are performing tai chi, a centuries'…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Dozens of Greenville homes deemed to be fire risks will receive smoke alarms thanks to a partnership between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal's office and the national Vision 20/20 project. Commissioner of Insurance and State Fire…
FULTON, Miss. (AP) - Former Mississippi Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck and Sean Suggs, an official from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, will address graduates of Itawamba Community College next month. The school says in a news release that about 600 students…
MONTICELLO, Ky. (AP) - Police are investigating the discovery of a body found inside a well in south-central Kentucky and searching for a possible suspect. Kentucky State Police said troopers found the body Friday in Wayne County after receiving a…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak to about 800 graduates during commencement at historically black Jackson State University. The White House says she has spoken at a historically black college or university each year since her…
AP-US--Abortion Regulation-Tennessee Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a recount of votes on a 2014 amendment to the Tennessee Constitution that made it easier to put restrictions on abortion. On Friday, U.S.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a recount of votes on a 2014 amendment to the Tennessee Constitution that made it easier to put restrictions on abortion. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp said the method…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State education officials are preparing for the possibility that some students won't be able to take the state's new achievement tests this year following the latest problem with the assessment. On Friday, Department of Education officials…
WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) - German carmaker Volkswagen is to take a 16.2 billion-euro ($18.2 billion) hit in its 2015 accounts related to a diesel-emissions scandal identified in the U.S. last year. As a result, the company said Friday it will…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A musician whose instrumental recordings influenced guitar players including Stevie Ray Vaughan has died in Nashville, Tennessee. Lonnie Mack was 74. Alligator Record Label said in a statement that Mack died on Thursday of natural causes.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Legislature has passed a measure that would reduce and eventually eliminate the Hall tax on investment income. The Hall tax imposes a general levy of 6 percent on investment income, with some exceptions. Lawmakers…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have adjourned the 109th General Assembly without scheduling a veto override session. Some House members had worried that Republican Gov. Bill Haslam could reject key legislation after lawmakers have gone home for the year.…
BENTON, Tenn. (AP) - The federal government said a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Co. has agreed to spend $40 million to protect the Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee. The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency said OXY USA Inc.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Hundreds of freshwater fish, mussels, crawfish and salamanders - many of them found nowhere else in the world - make their home in the Southeast. But the species that live in these rivers and streams are…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville police say they are ending their practice of making courtesy calls to Tennessee coaches about incidents involving athletes from the school. Police records released last month show that Knoxville police called Tennessee football coach Butch…
WINNERS: TENNESSEE BUDGET: Tennessee's annual $34.9 billion spending plan for the budget year starting July 1. HB2629. COUNSELING-RELIGIOUS BELIEFS: Allowing counselors and therapists to turn away patients based on the counselors' religious beliefs and personal principles. SB1556. CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS: Making…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Community members attended a Shelby County Schools board meeting to protest the proposed closure of charter schools. The Commercial Appeal reports that about 40 people spoke during a two-hour public comment session Thursday. The meeting focused…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Health officials say two unrelated cases of the measles have been confirmed in Shelby County. The county's Health Department said Friday that it is working with clinicians and physicians to identify people who may have been…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of a former East Tennessee high school assistant football coach is facing sex charges involving a player. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports a grand jury presentment made public Friday shows that 26-year-old Kelsey McCarter…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally stabbing two women and injuring a man at an apartment complex in Cleveland, Tennessee. The Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports that authorities arrested 24-year-old Stephen Jacob Reed Thursday on…
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - A former guard at an East Tennessee juvenile detention facility is facing charges including statutory rape and official misconduct. Dandrige Police Chief Carson Williams told WBIR that Brianna Rose Garber is also charged with sexual battery…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jefferson Community and Technical College has announced it is laying off 61 employees - about 14 percent of its staff. Vice President Lisa Brosky told local media Wednesday that the college concluded its workforce "must be…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police say a 6-year-old boy who was hit by a car on Monday has died from his injuries. Police spokesman Louis Brownlee told media that Christopher Smith, who would have turned 7 on Sunday, was…
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (AP) - A Montgomery County Public Schools bus driver has been suspended from his job after being arrested for drunken driving at a school. WKYT-TV reports Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Brian Fletcher on Wednesday at…
DAYTON, Ky. (AP) - A woman has pleaded guilty to credit card fraud in a case involving the body of a 55-year-old Air Force veteran found under a Dalton home. The Kentucky Enquirer reports that Tuesday, Christy Russell pleaded guilty…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The Secretary of State's office and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources have begun the process to find vendors who will provide ferry service to the new $360,000 Deer Island public pier. The Mississippi Press reports…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Visitation at the Adams County Jail is about to change. Sheriff Travis Patten tells The Natchez Democrat that starting April 29 the jail would scrap the Homewav video visitation program in favor of a traditional jail…
PURVIS, Miss. (AP) - Lamar County supervisors have met in executive session to explore their options for fighting annexation of parts of the county by the city of Hattiesburg. County administrator Jody Waits said Thursday supervisors talked with an attorney…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A Bay St. Louis man has received a 40-year prison term, with 25 years to serve, for sex crimes against children. The Sun Herald reports Circuit Judge Larry Bourgeois sentenced Matthew Timothy Davis this…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge has been publicly reprimanded because of contact she had with the district attorney's office about how she would run her court. The Tennessean reports that Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers complained after Judge…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A heroin antidote could be coming to private and public high schools in Kentucky this fall. Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy Executive Director Van Ingram tells The Courier-Journal it will be up to each Kentucky…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A suspicious package has been detonated after officials say it was found outside a federal building in Jackson. Officials tell media outlets that the package, which was found Thursday outside the McCoy Federal Building, posed no…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - State officials say unemployment rates increased in 65 of Kentucky's 120 counties between March 2015 and March 2016. The Kentucky Office of Employment Training said Thursday that jobless rates fell in 37 counties and remained the…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - East Tennessee State University has announced the formation of a new research center that will be focused on combating the prescription drug abuse epidemic in the region. News outlets report that the ETSU Center for…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport has been turned into a visit to nine National Park Service locations through artwork honoring the National Park Service Centennial. The space was unveiled Thursday. Great Smoky Mountains National park Superintendent Cassius…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Students at some eastern Kentucky schools will plant trees at a mine site next week in observance of Arbor Day. A statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says students from Millard, Elkhorn City, Dorton…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - A Williamson County judge has ruled against a group of eight Tennessee voters who support abortion rights. The case is a side note to a federal lawsuit, where the voters want to toss out a 2014…
NEW YORK (AP) - The choice to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is being praised for its symbolism. Many say it's a powerful change that a slave-owning president who forced Native Americans from their lands…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State lawmakers voted to send a message that they don't agree with the sexually open and progressive views of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion on the University of Tennessee campus. So the Legislature on Thursday…
As the Tennessee General Assembly works to adjourn for the year on Friday, here is a look at some of the winning and losing legislation from this year's session. WINNERS: TENNESSEE BUDGET: Tennessee's annual $34.9 billion spending plan for the…
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Wildfires continue to burn at each end of North Carolina. Officials say a fire in Brunswick County has burned about 1,600 acres. Firefighters said Wednesday afternoon the blaze was about 70 percent controlled. The North Carolina…
PHOENIX (AP) - Crossings along a roughly 4-mile stretch of track in metro Phoenix account for five of the top 15 U.S. road-railroad crossings with the most accidents in the past decade. The Federal Railroad Administration says many of the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Forward Ray Kasongo is leaving the Tennessee men's basketball team after one season. Tennessee coach Rick Barnes confirmed Thursday that Kasongo "is going to leave, and he's got some different options out there." Kasongo played 22…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State lawmakers got off to a quick start in January by dismissing a bill seeking to have Tennessee opt out of the U.S. Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling. Then things got complicated. The Legislature is expected…
CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) -- Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis. His publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Associated Press the music icon was found dead at his home Thursday in Chanhassen. The singer,…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Tennessee Volunteer and NFL star Albert Haynesworth is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy during a drive-by shooting at a Knoxville…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A fire has destroyed a two-story annex structure on the site of a torn-down historic hotel in the Elkmont area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The National Park Service said in a news release…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - The mayor of Ocean Springs has contacted Uber, and she told city aldermen the ride-hailing company wants to be in operation by July 1. Mayor Connie Moran says the company wants to have a party…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Ocean Springs aldermen have decided to stop issuing permits for short-term rentals under the new city law until they can agree on how opposition from neighbors can be resolved. The 13 homes issued permits since…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Clarksdale police corporal who was shot in the face two months ago has returned home. Media outlets report Derrick Couch was discharged from the hospital Wednesday. A police escort took him from the hospital to…
