MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis officials have come under scrutiny after the suspension of the rollout of about 2,000 body cameras that police say were expected to be in use by October. News outlets report Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials say they won't fight a federal court ruling that supports a tax incentive for a religious theme park featuring a 510-foot long Noah's Ark. A spokeswoman for Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin says Tuesday…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knox County officials have declared Jan. 24 as "Zaevion Dobson Day" in honor of a high school football player who died while shielding his friends from gunfire. Multiple news outlets…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's unemployment rate jumped in December as the economy didn't generate enough jobs to absorb more people looking for work. The jobless rate rose to 6.4 percent from 6 percent in November, as the increasing number…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - R. Clayton McWhorter, a businessman and philanthropist who helped pioneer health care in Nashville, has died at the age of 82. Courtney Hise with Mount Olivet Funeral Home in Nashville said McWhorter died Saturday. According to…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Paper company Verso Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, though the company says the move will have virtually no impact on its daily business. Memphis-based Verso said Tuesday the bankruptcy filing is intended to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam says it will be difficult for state Rep. Jeremy Durham to be an effective lawmaker after GOP leaders called for him to resign his seat amid sexual harassment allegations. While Haslam did…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Court of Appeals has determined that Nashville's former director of schools legally suspended an agreement with a union in 2011. The Tennessean reports that an opinion filed Dec. 21 by Court of Appeals Judge…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - There have been two departures from Governor Matt Bevin's administration: John Rittenhouse from the Kentucky Department of Parks and Arnita Gadson from the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission. Media outlets report Rittenhouse submitted his resignation on Friday,…
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - The Columbus Municipal School District board of Trustees has evaluated its performance, setting goals that include emphasizing better meeting decorum and promoting greater involvement from the public. The Commercial Dispatch reports the purpose of the Saturday…
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - Vicksburg officials are looking for volunteers to participate in the city's 15th annual downtown Mardi Gras Parade. The Vicksburg Post reports that all area clubs, churches, organizations, schools, drill teams and businesses are invited to take…
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - Voters in a western Kentucky county are deciding whether to allow packaged alcohol sales. The Paducah Sun reports that Graves County residents are voting today in a local option election. The election comes about two months…
WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) - A former Louisville Metro police officer has pleaded guilty to beating his wife last winter as she drove home from a Super Bowl party. News outlets report Clark County Circuit Judge Andrew Adams sentenced Jonathan Osborne…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded nearly $100,000 in grants to 25 projects at schools and educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama. The grants, which were requested by the organizations, will be used for projects associated with…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Court records show a Mississippi woman was under the influence of prescription drugs when she swerved into another lane and hit a pickup truck head-on, killing a 4-year-old Louisiana boy and seriously injuring four others. The…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Hundreds of employees at Stennis Space Center are hoping to keep their jobs after the contract to support the operations and maintenance of Stennis Space Center changes Feb. 1. The Sun Herald reports layoff…
SHANNON, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a Lee County man accused of molesting two girls has been charged. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports 33-year-old Bennie Hill of Shannon was arrested Friday. He's charged with two counts of child molestation.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police have identified the second of two women who were fatally shot in Jackson over the weekend. Local media outlets report that Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart says 29-year-old Stephanie D. Mejia was killed Sunday. Twentey-three-year-old…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A Fort Campbell spokesman says Gander Memorial Park is set for expansion. Bob Jenkins told The Leaf-Chronicle that the memorial is undergoing renovations that will enlarge the park and allow easier access for visitors. The…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a post office worker has been arrested on charges that he punched his supervisor and hit her with a chair. Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee said Shelby County sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Richard Martin…
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a 7-year-old boy has died after being shot by another child inside a parked car in Crossville. The Crossville Police Department said in a news release that four children were left alone inside a…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Farm Bureau says retail food prices across the state were down again at the end of 2015. The Farm Bureau says its Marketbasket Survey showed that during the final quarter of 2015, the average…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Republican state Rep. Rick Womick, who once accused Gov. Bill Haslam of "treason" to the GOP, is announcing plans to retire this year. The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro reports that Womick said he wants to…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant will give details of his 2016 legislative agenda during his annual State of the State address. The Republican governor is scheduled to speak to a joint session of the House and Senate…
The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and…
The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say two men have been sentenced to prison for defrauding the Memphis VA Medical Center of more than $1 million. The U.S. attorney's office said Monday that Andre Reddix and Ronnie White pleaded guilty…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Subpoenas are being issued to a superintendent and principal to testify in a hearing for three officials at a Tennessee high school facing charges of failing to report child sex abuse involving basketball players. Melydia Clewell,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The chairwoman of the Tennessee Democratic Party is calling on House Republican leaders to resign over their handling of Rep. Jeremy Durham and sexual harassment at the Tennessee General Assembly. Mary Mancini at a press conference…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Pearl River County officials say they're still investigating a shootout over a $25 service charge that left a gun shop owner and his 17-year-old son dead. Another man and his son were left injured after the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Republican Mark Tullos of Raleigh was sworn in to the Mississippi House on Friday in a small ceremony that was not announced to the public. Tullos says Monday that "there was nothing sinister about it." The…
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The closure of a Sprint customer care facility in Sullivan County is expected to impact 444 jobs. The Kingsport Times News reports Sprint announced Friday the facility will close Feb. 5. Company spokeswoman Roni Singleton said…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican Gov. Matt Bevin says Kentucky's two-year state spending plan must go beyond break even, calling for the state to generate more money to fix the multi-billion shortfalls that threaten to collapse its public retirement systems.…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police say former NFL quarterback Vince Young has been arrested on charges of drunken driving in Austin, Texas. Travis County jail records show that the 32-young former Texas star was booked shortly after midnight Monday on…
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) - The mayor of Corinth says he wants to give citizens the option to decide whether to tax themselves to improve the city's infrastructure. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin is urging the…
INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (AP) - An Independence man has been arrested in connection with a New Year's Eve crash that killed a husband and wife. Local news outlets report Independence police arrested 58-year-old Mark Huffman Friday on two counts of murder.…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - The sheriff's department in Scott County is investigating its first slaying in three years. Scott County Sheriff Tony Hampton tells local media outlets that 24-year-old Jeremiah O. Washington of Memphis, Tennessee, was found shot behind a…
BELHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a Belhaven University baseball player died in a one-car wreck early Sunday morning. Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Brandon Fortenberry tells local media outlets 21-year-old Devin McCann was southbound on I-55 just north of Brookhaven…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The trial of a Hattiesburg man charged in a 2014 shooting death begins Tuesday. Ray Allen Thompson is accused of the April 27 shooting death of 38-year-old Oliver Griffin at Hattiesburg apartment complex. The Hattiesburg American…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Police are investigating the fatal shootings of two women in Jackson. Local media outlets report the shooting happened Sunday night. Authorities say 23-year-old Janis N. Evans and an unidentified woman were pronounced dead at the scene.…
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Nicholasville-Jessamine County has become the fourth community in Kentucky to adopt a needle-exchange program. Media outlets report the Jessamine Fiscal Court voted 4-2 last week for the program, which will allow addicts to anonymously exchange used…
SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) - Investigators in Pulaski County are trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a farmhouse and killed two people. Pulaski County Public Safety Director Tiger Robinson tells local media outlets that the fire occurred Sunday…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the 2014 death of his wife at a western Lexington motel. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports 39-year-old Michael Wayne Crowe was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty…
VERONA, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a kidnapping in Verona. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Marcus Benton was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service. He's charged with armed robbery,…
D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Police have discovered remains that are believed to be those of a Biloxi woman reported missing in a car in a wooded area in D'Iberville. Local media outlets report the body was found Saturday. Biloxi police…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to close coal ash storage facilities at its coal-fired power plants and is asking for the public to comment. A draft environmental impact statement is available online and looks at…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An institute at the University of Louisville is receiving $2.5 million to help bring health care to rural and medically underserved areas in Kentucky. The grant to the Institute for Sustainable Health and Optimal Aging comes…
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - The Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge has opportunities for volunteers at the park. The park is offering an information session for anyone interested in volunteering. The session will be at 10 a.m.…
MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) - McComb police say a man accused of robbing a convenience store told investigators that people he knew had robbed him of the stolen cigarettes and cash. Detective Shannon Sullivan says an investigator recognized 27-year-old Wallace Tompson…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Barge and railroad spokesmen say their customers see a big impact from a series of accidents in which barges hit the railroad bridge at Vicksburg. The Coast Guard is investigating five such accidents that occurred over…
