LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A former prison nurse in Kentucky has been sentenced to a year behind bars for smuggling tobacco into the prison in exchange for payments from inmates. The U.S. attorney's office says U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam's office says he has appointed J. Ross Dyer to the western section of the Court of Criminal Appeals. In a statement Thursday, Haslam said Dyer's appointment will require confirmation by the General Assembly.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former state Rep. Randy Stamps has been named executive director of the Tennessee State Employees Association. Stamps had served as the group's lobbyists before being selected to replace interim Executive Director LaTanya McAdo. Stamps was a…
BURGIN, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials say the reopening of the Kennedy Mill Bridge over Herrington Lake in central Kentucky has been delayed until April 8. The bridge had been set to reopen on April 1, but The…
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three contestants are left to vie for the last "American Idol" crown. Trent Harmon, of Amory, Mississippi; Dalton Rapattoni of Dallas; and La'Porsha Renae of McComb, Mississippi, were announced Thursday as the contenders. MacKenzie Bourg of…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi legislative leaders are considering raising sales tax rates from 7 percent to 9 percent as part of plan to increase road and bridge funding. But they indicated they might remove the sales tax from groceries.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi lawmaker is paying for kicking in the bottom section of a mahogany door at the state Capitol. Democratic Rep. Jarvis Dortch of Raymond says he gave a $2,474 check to the House Management Committee…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that Kentucky cannot bar a corporation from contributing to political campaigns while no such restrictions apply to other organizations like labor unions. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove on Thursday…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A spokesman says Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant will review a bill that would let government workers and private businesspeople cite religious beliefs to deny services to gay or lesbian couples. The final version of the bill…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky lawmaker was denied access to a news conference where Gov. Matt Bevin and top human services officials talked about problems with the state's new public benefits system. Democratic Rep. Johnny Bell of Glasgow was…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has ordered immediate 4.5 percent cuts in state funding to all public colleges and universities. The order comes as state lawmakers are locked in a stalemate over a two-year state spending plan.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge has overturned Mississippi's ban on allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan, in a preliminary injunction issued Thursday, ruled for the couples who had sued, saying the ban is…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - An elementary school student in Bowling Green has died after being struck by a car. Bowling Green Police Department spokesman Ronnie Ward tells media outlets that a vehicle struck 10-year-old Giselle Arias Wednesday evening. When…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Ruby Tuesday server is suing the restaurant chain, claiming she is required to do excessive untipped side work, in a federal lawsuit she hopes will become a class action involving thousands of workers nationwide. The…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The mayor's office says a Memphis police officer who was cleared of criminal charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man has retired. In a statement released Thursday, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland's office said Officer…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee woman says her fiance was shot in the back by an officer as he was surrendering a rifle to her during a confrontation with police - and then again in the chest as he…
WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) - Two people have accused a Kentucky health provider and several pharmacies of taking part in billing the federal government inflated prices for prescription drugs. The Lexington Herald Leader reports that attorneys representing pharmacist William R. Hall…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A bill to have state lawmakers fill U.S. Senate vacancies has been defeated. Under a proposed amendment to the bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee lawmakers would have been called into…
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP) - Officials found an infant dolphin dead along the shoreline in Pass Christian, marking the eighth baby mammal to wash ashore in the past week. The director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Dr. Moby…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Five defendants who say a former state trooper violated their civil rights will split $235,000. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the two sides spent more than seven hours Tuesday hammering out the settlement with the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A consultant has concluded that juvenile detention became more dangerous in the months after the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County transferred the operations of its juvenile detention facility to the Shelby County Sheriff last…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $618 million contract modification to fund the construction of a new guided-missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy. The Sun Herald reports the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is the fourth…
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A needle exchange program in Covington has moved another step closer to reality. Media outlets report that Kenton County Fiscal Court on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan for a mobile unit in the city. The Northern…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say a woman blew heroin on a Lexington police officer in an effort to tamper with drug evidence. Police spokeswoman Brenna Angel tells the Lexington Herald-Leader that the officer was driving 35-year-old Anjanette Halcomb to…
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - The charges against a former TV meteorologist accused of growing marijuana will be sent to a grand jury for possible indictment. The Mayfield Messenger reports 32-year-old Victoria "Tori" Shaw Smoyer and her husband, 35-year-old Tyler Smoyer,…
PELAHATCHIE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a child has died after being hit by a vehicle outside of Jackson. Multiple media outlets report the incident happened Wednesday night in Pelahatchie. Pelahatchie Chief of Police Glenda Shoemaker says the child, who…
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) - A fire at the lodge at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in eastern Kentucky has shut the building down for a few days. State officials say no one was hurt and sprinklers contained the Tuesday night…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is releasing his plan for road construction in Tennessee on Thursday. The governor tells reporters that the plan will identify the specific projects that will be funded in the next three years.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors say a Memphis man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for assaulting, raping and robbing several women during a five-year period. The Shelby County district attorney's office said Wednesday that 44-year-old Marion Walker…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee State University students and others will visit houses in two Nashville neighborhoods this week to encourage fire safety. The university says its students, American Red Cross volunteers and representatives from the state fire marshal's office…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky National Guard plans to host its first annual Memorial Day event in Frankfort. A statement from the Kentucky National Guard Memorial Fund says the event will be held at 2 p.m. on May 30…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky lawmakers have still not reached an agreement on how to spend more than $65 billion in public money over the next two years. House and Senate leaders met for hours on Wednesday in a series…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Five Smith County voters sued in federal court Wednesday, asking a judge to overturn a decision by the Mississippi House of Representatives to award a disputed seat to Republican Mark Tullos. The five voters say the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Senate is debating a bill that could hamper same-sex couples' access to marriage licenses or wedding services. House Bill 1523 would let circuit clerks cite their own religious beliefs to deny marriage licenses to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that he remains opposed to a renewed effort to make the Holy Bible the official state book of Tennessee. Haslam initially voiced opposition to the measure before it was derailed…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The board of Jackson's city-run airport says it will go as far as necessary to fight a bill that would give suburbs and the state some control over the airport. If the Senate passes the bill,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Six people from Tennessee and Kentucky are among the 61 prisoners who had their sentences commuted by President Barack Obama. All six whose sentences were commuted Wednesday were drug dealers who were sentenced to serve anywhere…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Longtime TennCare Director Darin Gordon, who spearheaded Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's unsuccessful Insure Tennessee proposal, is stepping down after 20 years in state government. Haslam announced Gordon's retirement at a press conference at the state Capitol…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Tennessee-based cancer charities labeled "shams" by the Federal Trade Commission have settled a massive fraud case, along with their president, by agreeing to a $75.8 million judgment and the dissolution of the businesses. The joint…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An audit of the state Department of Human Services by the Comptroller has called into question management and spending in the children's food program. Media outlets report most of the spending questioned in Tuesday's audit involved…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican Senate President Robert Stivers says lawmakers are making progress toward an agreement on how to spend more than $65 billion in public money over the next two years. House and Senate leaders met Wednesday morning…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the vehicular homicide of two 11-year-old boys. Media outlets report that 27-year-old Sparkel Hastings pleaded guilty in February to reckless vehicular homicide, reckless aggravated…
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The National Weather Service says three tornadoes touched down in western Kentucky's Christian County over the weekend when a severe storm passed through the area. The Kentucky New Era cited the National Weather Service in Paducah…
JUNCTION CITY, Ky. (AP) - Authorities executed a search warrant and dug up several spots of a Lincoln County property in connection with the case of a woman who disappeared in 1992. Boyle County Sheriff Marty Elliott tells news outlets…
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - Authorities in Kentucky are investigating a case of vandalism at an African-American heritage center as a hate crime. London City Police Captain Darrel Kilburn tells news outlets that someone spray-painted a sign outside the Laurel County…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - A 63-year-old Kingsport man has died after being hospitalized following a fight with teenage neighbors that was recorded on video earlier this month. The Kingsport Times-News reports that Marion Guy died Monday, 17 days after the…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 41-year-old Florida man has admitted using a cellphone in Mississippi to set up a drug deal in New York. The Sun Herald reports Jose Rosado, of Orlando, pleaded guilty to using a phone July 10,…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A Texas man and a Mississippi woman have pleaded not guilty in a federal case involving meth found in a spare tire in a vehicle at a Mississippi motel. The Sun Herald reports 38-year-old Mark Anthony…
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A northern Kentucky mother has pleaded guilty to supplying her daughter with the heroin that she fatally overdosed on while in jail last year. The Kentucky Enquirer reports that Kimberly Mullins on Tuesday pleaded guilty in…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Pascagoula police are investigation a double stabbing at the Pine Tree Apartments in which one man died. Police Lt. Doug Adams tells The Sun Herald detectives are working to determine how the two men are connected…
