NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state Senate has passed a resolution directing Tennessee's attorney general to mount a legal challenge to the federal refugee resettlement program. The chamber voted 27-5 on Monday to pass the resolution despite Republican Gov. Bill Haslam…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The federal government is offering about 45 million acres for oil and gas leases in the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico at sales on March 23. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says the Central…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police in New Orleans say they have issued a warrant for a third suspect - and they are trying to identify a fourth suspect - in the beating of a pizza delivery man on Bourbon Street.…
ATLANTA (AP) - Anyone licensed to carry a gun in Georgia could carry concealed handguns on public college campuses under a bill passed Monday by the Georgia House. Athletic facilities and student housing, including sorority and fraternity houses, would be…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The state Legislature has confirmed the appointment of Medina native Roger A. Page to fill a vacancy on the Tennessee Supreme…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have released the names of three people killed in a head-on collision in Knoxville. Local media outlets report the Tennessee Highway Patrol says 43-year-old Herman Maldonado of Sevierville, 72-year-old Margaret Bowles of Seymour and 38-year-old…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce says it will pay for billboards and newspaper ads to raise awareness about Kentucky's public pension debt. Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Dave Adkisson said Kentucky's $36 billion public pension debt…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Board of Regents system has plans to create a task force that will research campus safety and security. The Commercial Appeal reports that TBR acting chancellor David Gregory told board members Thursday about his…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - January revenue of $100.5 million for Mississippi's 12 Gulf Coast casinos is $13 million higher than the $87.3 million posted in January of last year. That is a 15 percent increase. In a report on the…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's governor says he's still working with legislative leaders on a bill exempting opponents of same-sex marriage from government penalty for declining to serve gay couples. Gov. Nathan Deal indicated that changes to the bill are coming…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A new Michigan law eliminates the classification of "policewomen" from use by state police. Gov. Rick Snyder recently signed a bill modernizing existing law by removing the title from the state police list of ranks and…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Officials say Kentucky's first pollinator protection plan seeks to reduce the state's honeybee losses. The plan outlines best management practices for beekeepers, landowners, government agencies and pesticides applicators to help slow the rapid die-off of honeybees…
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - Henderson Fiscal Court has selected Bruce Todd to serve as interim judge-executive following the recent death of Judge-Executive Hugh McCormick. The Gleaner reports Todd was chosen to fill the position on Saturday. Todd will serve until…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a man has been arrested on charges in the hit-and-run death of a woman in Memphis. Shelby County Jail records show 49-year-old Walter Williams was being held Sunday on charges that include vehicular homicide,…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - When Texas' conservative Legislature passed a law requiring public universities to allow concealed guns on campus, it also gave the state's private institutions of higher learning the chance to follow suit. None has so far. More…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The director of Missouri's public defenders is warning that the state's chronically underfunded system for representing poor people has become a "house of cards" that could face a federal lawsuit if it's not improved. The…
LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Highway Patrol reports that a head-on crash between a sports car and a mid-sized car has killed both drivers - a 44-year-old Louisiana woman and a 22-year-old Mississippi woman. Cpl. Benjamin Seibert tells The…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are set to vote on a bill permitting guns on state college campuses. The House Rules committee has scheduled Rep. Rick Jasperse's proposal for a floor vote on Monday. Jasperse, a Republican from Jasper, has…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police are investigating a fatal shooting at a Jackson strip club. The Jackson Police Department said in a news release that officers responded to the Black Diamond Club on Saturday regarding reports of gunfire. Police say…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - The Spring Tupelo Furniture Market starts Thursday, but some transactions have already started as buyers and sellers gather for the 29th consecutive year. Kevin Seddon, president of the Tupelo Furniture Market, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A naked man has been arrested at Nashville International Airport - and airport officials say he is a repeat offender. Airport spokeswoman Shannon Summerall tells local media that the man was arrested Sunday evening. Other identifying…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against St. Dominic Hospital and two doctors who treated the late Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (SHOW'-kway Lu-MOOM'-bah). The Clarion-Ledger reports at 9 a.m. on Feb. 25, 2014 Lumumba checked…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials are teaming with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a renewed effort to combat trafficking of SNAP benefits. SNAP is the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. SNAP trafficking refers…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Two conferences in Bowling Green this week will attract dairy experts from around the country. They will give presentations on dairy production, management, economics, and stockmanship as part of the Kentucky Dairy Partners Conference and Young…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's automotive industry produced more vehicles and increased its employment in 2015. The Kentucky Automotive Industry Association says the state maintained its status as the nation's third-largest producer of cars and light trucks. The group says…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - A tilted oak on Lover's Lane has won a reprieve from the Ocean Springs Board of Aldermen. Fire Chief Jeff Ponson says it's in the way of fire trucks. He wants it down. The board…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A regional school for handicapped children will close after this school year because only two districts are using it. The McDougal Center has been in Tupelo for more than 40 years, and once served nine districts…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Majority Leader Damon Thayer's ex-fiancee has alleged in a lawsuit that he threatened to use his political power against her. The Georgetown News-Graphic reported Saturday that the allegations are part of lawsuits Thayer and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jury selection begins Monday in the trial involving sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews, who filed a $75 million lawsuit against the franchise owner and manager of a luxury hotel and a man who admitted making…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - It wasn't your usual foot chase. Oxford police caught a homeless emu, with help from some barbed wire. The Lafayette County Sheriff's Department had been getting calls about a loose emu for days. Each time they…
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (AP) - A toddler's death is under investigation in central Kentucky. Mercer County Coroner Sonny Ransdell says a 22-month-old girl was pronounced dead at Haggin B. Memorial Hospital on Thursday. Ransdell says the body was sent to the…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Clarksville are looking for two men posing as police officers and pulling over are motorists. Clarksville police say in a news release that the department received at least three reports from people claiming they…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The mother of a man who shot four Mississippi state troopers and was killed by police says police, who spent six hours negotiating with her son, refused to let her talk to him. Katherine Hudson of…
FULTON, Miss. (AP) - Fulton Police Chief Reggie Johnson says a woman reported missing earlier this month may have been missing much longer than that. Johnson tells WCBI-TV that nobody has seen Deborah Evans-Bell since New Year's Day. She was…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A man wanted in the October slayings of two Florida men has been captured in East Tennessee. Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal says in a news release that 21-year-old Joshua Daniel Brown was captured last…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Four men accused of kidnapping a man from his home in Alabama then taking him to Tennessee to kill him in 2012 have been indicted again. Local news media report that Robert Eugene Davis, Jamie Ladae…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - An Alvaton man has been arrested on more than a dozen charges after leading Kentucky State Police on a pursuit that resulted in collisions with two other vehicles. State Police say in a news release…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A new online tool can help Kentucky drug addicts find treatment. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports information on 130 Kentucky providers can be found on the website http://GetHelpLex.org . The website takes visitors through questions to help…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee first lady Crissy Haslam and the state's health commissioner are headlining events to celebrate the success of a statewide initiative to reduce sleep-related deaths among infants. State health officials say Tennessee has had a 25…
IUKA, Mississippi (AP) - The Latest on a standoff in northeastern Mississippi that ended with gunfire that killed the suspect and a law enforcement agent, and the wounding of three others (all times local). 12:25 p.m. Authorities say the gunfight…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Rutherford County jail administrator has been fired in the wake of two recent inmate suicides earlier this year. The Daily News Journal (http://on.dnj.com/1PNkmpS) reports that Rutherford County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lisa Marchesoni confirmed that Maj.…
DALLAS (AP) - A lock of John Lennon's hair that was snipped as he prepared for a film role has sold for $35,000. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Saturday that the 4-inch lock of hair was purchased by Paul Fraser, a…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Authorities in Hancock County say 13 people have been arrested in a weekend roundup of drug suspects. And several others were being sought. Officials say some of the suspects named Friday already were behind…
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (AP) - Voters in the city of Harrodsburg in Mercer County will soon decide whether to expand alcohol sales to smaller restaurants and open the door to bars and retail package stores. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who escaped from a juvenile detention center in Blount County has been found dead. In a news release, Blount County Sheriff James Lee Berrong says the boy's body was found on…
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - There are 282 public libraries in the 95 Tennessee counties. This month all 282 received a new addition to their respective collections. The Keep Tennessee Beautiful Foundation recently donated copies of "Nancy and Sluggo Love Tennessee:…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - It all started with an unusual phone call. McCracken County Sheriff's Deputy Derick Pugh got the call about two weeks ago. It was from a man who owns a house in the 2400 block of Hovekamp…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A Rutherford County jail administrator has been fired in the wake of two recent inmate suicides earlier this year. The Daily News Journal reports that Rutherford County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lisa Marchesoni confirmed that Maj. Tommy…
MACON, Ga. (AP) - A bill proposed in the state Senate could decrease focus on standardized testing in Georgia. The Telegraph reports that the Senate Bill 364 would reduce the number of tests that Georgia students take from 32 to…
IUKA, Mississippi (AP) - Law enforcement authorities say one officer is dead and three are hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a standoff in northeastern Mississippi. Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain says the standoff ended in gunfire early Saturday…
