BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A new distillery being built in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country has taken a big step toward the day when whiskey starts flowing. The Bardstown Bourbon Co. had its 50-foot-tall still installed Thursday. The stainless…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a Hendersonville attorney has been sentenced to more than 2 ½ years in prison for his role in a real estate closing scheme. Officials with the office of U.S. Attorney David Rivera said…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - An inmate has been sentenced for his role in a deadly riot at an Adams County prison in 2012. U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis' office said in a statement that 39-year-old Hiasom Ali was sentenced Tuesday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville International Airport is adding a second parking lot for people waiting on cell phone calls from arriving travelers. The airport says construction starts Monday, and motorists exiting from Interstate 40 east should be aware of…
CAVE CITY, Ky. (AP) - A former amusement park in south-central Kentucky will be sold at auction on April 20. Media report a handful of potential buyers inspected the site of the former Guntown Mountain tourist attraction in Cave City…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A man already jailed in connection with a double-killing in March has now been named by Jackson police as a suspect in a February death. The victim in the February case was 85-year-old James Hankins. Jackson…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker are scheduled to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for gun maker Beretta's new manufacturing and research facility in suburban Nashville. Tennessee prevailed in luring the Italian gun maker from…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis police have identified an off-duty officer who was involved in a fatal shooting this week. Police said he is 36-year-old Marshall Smith, who has been with the department since June 8, 2009. He remains relieved…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Shelby County Schools is being given one more year to use the roughly $11 million left in a gift awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2009 to help the cash-strapped district bolster teacher…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three Democrats are demanding that a Republican state lawmaker be disciplined after she distributed a video on Muslims that the General Assembly's legal offices have said is so inflammatory that it could be viewed as religious…
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Nera White, one of the first female players inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. She was 80 years old. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame issued a release Thursday confirming White's death.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Chinese-born U.S. nuclear engineer has been accused of recruiting a team of U.S.-based experts to help a state-controlled Chinese nuclear energy company build reactors there. Szuhsiung Ho, also known as Allen Ho, had dual citizenship…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed a bill to make the Holy Bible the official state book of Tennessee. The bill had narrowly passed both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly after sponsors said the legislation…
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Ani DiFranco and Cyndi Lauper are the latest musicians to protest a North Carolina state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community. DiFranco said in a statement Thursday that she canceled her appearance at…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Proposals that critics say limit the rights of LGBT people are part of a backlash across the historically conservative South against the U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized gay marriage. Those proposals are finding opponents,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A small plane crash that killed four members of a Kansas family while narrowly missing a Nashville, Tennessee, YMCA during peak afternoon hours was caused by the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed after an engine lost…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Metro Nashville Public Schools has joined Shelby County officials in calling for the Achievement School District to discontinue takeovers of struggling schools. The Tennessean reports the Metro School Board approved a resolution on Tuesday seeking a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Legislation that would put new restrictions on the transfer of fetal remains from an abortion is close to getting to the governor. The House on Thursday passed the Fetal Remains Act. The Senate already passed the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Metro Nashville Police have announced they are implementing changes in an East Nashville public housing development after two officers were attacked there. Police Chief Steve Anderson announced Wednesday that the officers were attacked in a less…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers have approved a nearly $35 billion annual spending plan for the budget year beginning July 1, sending the measure to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's desk. While hot button topics like social issues and guns…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville City Council members have decided to allow smoked-meat food trucks within the city limits, as long as they are at least 100 feet away from homes. News outlets report that the council's decision resolved one…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Nearly two dozen Kentucky artists are represented in this year's Governor's Derby Exhibit, which is now on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort. The exhibit is coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council and is open…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Heavy rainfall last month and more in April has resulted in extraordinarily high water levels and backwater flooding in the Mississippi south Delta. As a result, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has decided…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Brown-Forman Corp. says its new Kentucky distillery will span bourbon production. The company says its Old Forester bourbon will be distilled, aged and bottled at the distillery in downtown Louisville. Barrels to age the whiskey also…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a former bank employee has admitted to embezzling more than $130,000 in a fraudulent loan scheme. Officials say 47-year-old Sheila Burns, of Waverly, pleaded guilty this week to one count of embezzling funds…
LELAND, Miss. (AP) - The Leland Board of Aldermen has agreed to equip the city's police officers with body cameras. The Delta Democrat-Times reports that the board voted unanimously on Tuesday approved the use of police body cameras. The Leland…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Churchill Downs says the country trio Lady Antebellum will sing the national anthem at the 142nd Kentucky Derby. The performance will be broadcast live from the Kentucky Derby Winner's Circle at the Louisville, Kentucky, racetrack right…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Titans have agreed to trade the top overall pick in this month's NFL draft to the Los Angeles Rams. The Titans announced the deal Thursday morning. Tennessee swaps the No. 1 pick to the…
BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi woman has been arrested after officials say she tried to smuggle tobacco and drugs into a jail using a Bible. Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar tells media outlets in a statement Wednesday that 51-year-old…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lawmakers are planning to vote Thursday on the state's nearly $35 billion spending plan for the budget year beginning July 1. While hot button topics like social issues and guns tend to draw much attention…
OKOLONA, Miss. (AP) - A man accused of dragging his dog by the neck behind his pickup truck won't serve any jail time. Media outlets report Chickasaw County Sheriff Jim Myers says 70-year-old Willie Davis entered a no-contest plea Wednesday.…
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) - Two people have been killed and another seriously wounded during a shooting in Dickson County. Authorities have not yet released the names of the victims of the Tuesday morning shooting in Charlotte. Dickson County Sheriff Jeff…
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Greenville has joined with several partners for a project aimed at revitalizing the Washington County city located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. The city, developer Bill Boykin, Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, U.S. Bancorp…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge has delayed Thursday's sentencing of a former prison phone consultant who pleaded guilty to bribing former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps. Sam Waggoner was scheduled for sentencing Thursday. But Nick Bain, his defense…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's legislative leaders have agreed to a two-year operating budget that will pay the community college tuition for all Kentucky high school graduates while spending more than $1 billion on the state's public pension debt. House…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton will be the keynote speaker at a Bowling Green conference for women veterans. Hampton, an Air Force veteran, will speak at the Western Kentucky Women Veterans Regional Conference on April 30…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Records of Tennessee Supreme Court cases that were previously only available by visiting Nashville can now be requested online. The Tennessee State Library and Archives said the new online ordering system allows researchers to order cases…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A major hospital chain is settling a long-running tax dispute with the state of Florida. Records show HCA Holdings, the parent company of the Nashville-based HCA, signed an agreement with Florida officials in late March to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Several country music artists and songwriters have condemned proposed laws critics say discriminate against LGBT people. But anyone looking for reaction from the record labels and production companies on Nashville's Music Row has heard only the…
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 35 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making. The annual event is June 21. Performances - from classical to punk rock - will be…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia has joined 32 other states in urging federal health officials to let methadone clinics bypass a patient's permission in order to submit dispensing data to prescription drug monitoring databases. The letter from a coalition…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A proposal to add an amendment to the state constitution that would give the Tennessee Legislature full discretion to determine the funding and eligibility of public schools has failed. The joint resolution sponsored by Sen. Delores…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Canadian pilot who died when he crashed a small plane at the Nashville International Airport three years ago was legally drunk and obsessed with a Nashville celebrity. That's according to a National Transportation Safety Board…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Knox County district attorney's office opposes notifying anyone before arrests are made in an investigation. Phone records show Knoxville police called Tennessee football coach Butch Jones during a rape investigation involving former Volunteers A.J. Johnson…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - South Korean tiremaker Hankook is moving its North American headquarters to Nashville. Company and state officials announced in a ceremony at the state Capitol on Wednesday that 200 jobs will move to downtown Nashville, which is…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A published report says the assistant principal at Fort Campbell High School has been reassigned after the district superintendent met with the garrison commander at the Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The Leaf-Chronicle reports it…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Legislature is honoring the family of a fallen Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics officer and three state troopers whom Gov. Phil Bryant awarded the Medal of Valor. Forty-four-year-old Lee Tart was killed in late February…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man is facing child porn charges after asking a sheriff's deputy to fix his computer. The Daily News reports 63-year-old William Breece Dudley was indicted on four counts of possession of child pornography.…
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A Hardin County Schools official says the driver of a bus that crashed into a home with 50 children on board appeared to have a seizure. HCS Community Relations Specialist John Wright tells the News-Enterprise that…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Three people arrested during an investigation of an alleged meth supplier's plan to attend spring break in Mississippi have been denied bond. The Sun Herald reports 36-year-old Tosh Humphrey, of Slidell, Louisiana, and 40-year-old Roy Tatum,…
