GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information about the shooting of a bald eagle in western Kentucky. Officials say the federally protected bird was shot sometime around Christmas in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A perennial proposal to get rid of Tennessee's requirement to obtain state-issued permit to carry handguns in public has failed in a Senate committee. The bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Mark Green of Clarksville failed on…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Attorney in Louisville says a former officer manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling $800,000 from the company where she worked. A release from U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - NBC's Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw returns to Oxford, Mississippi, to deliver the 163rd Ole Miss commencement address. Brokaw, the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: "Today," ''Nightly News" and "Meet the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A national magazine has given Metro Louisville a Top 10 ranking in economic development and job creation. A statement from Mayor Greg Fischer says Louisville placed seventh in Site Selection Magazine's list of top tier metro…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - An Ingalls Shipbuilding employee has been found dead in his vehicle. Pascagoula Police Sgt. Doug Adams tells WLOX-TV it appears the victim got off work Monday, got in his truck and looks like he had a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee was stabbed to death in an attack in Israel. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos writes in a letter to students, faculty and staff that American student Taylor Force…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Police arrested a customer of a Family Dollar store after they say she fired a weapon following an argument with another shopper. The Sun Herald reports that Gulfport police arrested 40-year-old Tamika Nicole Guy on Sunday…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed an inmate death lawsuit against the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The Johnson City Press reports a judge ruled Monday that Stewart Peppers' parents failed to present concrete evidence and facts supporting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Protesters are congregating at the legislative office complex to voice their opposition to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to outsource the operation of more state buildings. The demonstrators unfurled banners, chanted and sang in the hallways…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's on-again, off-again gas tax hike could return this year. Maybe. The governor spent much of last fall traveling across the state to draw attention to the state's transportation funding needs, but said…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed an inmate death lawsuit against the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The Johnson City Press reports a judge ruled Monday that Stewart Peppers' parents failed to present concrete evidence and facts supporting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The warden of a new Tennessee prison is being sent to lead a privately run Nashville jail. The Tennessean reports private-prison company Corrections Corporation of America sent Warden Todd Thomas from Hartsville's Trousdale-Turner Correctional Facility to…
IRVINE, Ky. (AP) - Estill County officials say all tests so far have shown the air and water to be safe around a local landfill where low-level nuclear waste was illegally dumped last year. Judge-Executive Wallace Taylor told WKYT-TV on…
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An 18-year-old woman who admitted to being uncooperative during their investigation into the shooting death of a Kentucky state trooper will not have to serve any time in prison. News outlets report that Ambrea Shanks of…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - The company that will be providing air service between Tupelo and Nashville has picked a name and plans to reveal more details of that service later this month. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Corporate Flight…
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) - A tractor trailer carrying several hundred beehives rolled over in an area just outside of Mt. Juliet in Wilson County. Media outlets report that the crash happened Monday afternoon in a rural area about three…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Students in Jefferson County Public Schools were physically held down or confined to a room more than 4,400 times last school year - but the school district only correctly reported 174 of those instances to the…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The former Hattiesburg American building in downtown Hattiesburg may soon have a new purpose and new tenants - if city officials can find the money to get on board with a renovation project. During Monday's meeting…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Anyone entering a Harrison County Board of Supervisors meeting will be required to pass through a metal detector, one of a series of steps the Harrison County Sheriff's Department is taking to better secure the courthouses.…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Huntington Ingalls Industries' 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha, spent four days in the Gulf of Mexico last week with Ingalls' test and trials team operating the ship and performing more than 200…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Jackson County supervisors have voted to keep flying the state flag on county property and at county buildings. Monday's vote was 4-1. In a resolution, they referred to a previous statewide vote 2001 to keep the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Graceland Auctions says it is planning an auction of authenticated Muhammad Ali memorabilia later this year. The Memphis-based auction house says the auction of items associated with the 74-year-old former boxing champion will take place this…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - State Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt wants to know how Kentuckians define school success. So he's planning a series of town hall meetings starting next week to gather comments. The suggestions will be used by state education…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Highway Patrol is accepting applications for its first class of cadets made up of people with law enforcement training and experience. The lateral class will be made up of graduates from law enforcement training…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi holds its presidential and congressional primaries Tuesday, and the state will award 40 Republican and 41 Democratic delegates. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and voters must have a driver's license or another…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - The fate of the last legislative chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats is in the hands of a few thousand Kentucky voters in four House districts scattered throughout the state. Those voters will choose…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The state of Kentucky is asking residents to donate a portion of their tax returns to help feed the hungry. Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles asked taxpayers to check a box on their income tax return…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state House has passed a bill to create a $50 fine for driving slow in the fast lane on major highways in Tennessee. The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Dan Howell of Bradley County would…
LAUREL, Miss. (AP) - A teenager is dead, and another is in custody after a fatal shooting in Jasper County. WDAM-TV reports authorities were called to the suspect's mobile home in the Moss Community after a 911 call came in…
KILN, Miss. (AP) - The family of a missing Stone County man is offering a $10,000 reward for any information on his whereabouts or the arrest of anyone involved in his disappearance. The Sun Herald reports that state Sen. Sean…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Toddlers would have to ride in rear-facing car seats for an additional year under a bill passed by both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly. Democratic Rep. John Ray Clemmons of Nashville said the measure brings…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi has three congressional primaries Tuesday - two Republican and one Democratic. In the northern 1st District, Republican U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly of Tupelo is challenged by Paul Clover of Olive Branch. Kelly won a June…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Hamilton County Board of Education has voted against buying out Superintendent Rick Smith's contract, leaving the embattled official at the helm. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that five of the board's nine members voted…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - House Speaker Greg Stumbo renewed his push Monday to amend Kentucky's Constitution to give local voters the option of temporarily raising sales taxes to pay for big-ticket construction projects. After seeing the proposal die a year…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House of Representatives has decided to kill two bills by not taking them up for debate. House Bill 738 would have required Attorney General Jim Hood to get approval from an oversight commission before…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama lawmaker wants convicted sex offenders to pay for their own surgical castration. Steve Hurst, a Republican from Munford, Ala., has introduced a bill that would require sex offenders older than 21 to pay for…
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) - Rankin County authorities say the body of a missing woman has been found in the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Sheriff Bryan Bailey says 78-year-old Hattie L. Moore was reported missing about 8 p.m. Sunday from her daughter's…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating an altercation between an apparel store customer and a suspected shoplifter that led to a shot being fired in a mall parking lot. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said officers responded to a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A fatal school bus crash in Knoxville has inspired Tennessee lawmakers to seek tougher penalties for drivers using electronic devices. Investigators last year found that one driver had been reading a text message just before his…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has ordered all state flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Nancy Reagan. The former first lady and wife of President Ronald Reagan died Sunday of congestive heart failure. She was…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Four special elections in Kentucky could control the fate of the state House of Representatives and the $650 million state spending cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. Voters in four Kentucky House districts will elect…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi guard Stefan Moody won the Howell Trophy and Mississippi State guard Victoria Vivians won the Gillom Trophy on Monday at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The Howell is given to the state's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Tennessee residents are suing the nation's largest diesel retailer over holds placed on their credit cards when they swiped at the pump, but an industry representative says the banks are really to blame. The lawsuits…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were scheduled to appear in Mississippi before its presidential primaries, but the state has received relatively little attention this campaign season. Trump was scheduled to speak Monday evening in the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi has received relatively little attention from presidential candidates ahead of its primaries, with campaigns focusing time and resources in several other states. Republican front-runner Donald Trump was scheduled to campaign in the Jackson suburb of…
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - The Daily Independent newspaper and the Paramount Arts Center have partnered to bring the U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers' Chorus to Ashland next month. The Daily Independent reports the free concert is scheduled for April…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Developers of the former Eola Hotel building are expected to appear before the Natchez Board of Aldermen on Tuesday. Interim City Planner Riccardo Giani and the Natchez Planning Commission denied renovation plans for the first floor…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating what led police to shoot at a suspect while responding to a domestic violence call in Murfreesboro. TBI spokesman Josh DeVine tells media that at least one…
