NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Association Awards will open this year's show with a tribute to the late country queen Loretta Lynn, who died this month at the age of 90. FILE - Loretta Lynn…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans' proposed domed stadium would seat approximately 60,000 people and cover 1.7 million square feet under renderings released Tuesday. The renderings follow last week's announcement that the Titans had reached an agreement with the Nashville mayor…
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — A man was injured when a black bear went into his cabin in the Smoky Mountains and charged at him, officials said. The man found the bear when he went into the kitchen of the rental…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee lawmaker who was expelled in 2016 is facing charges in a Nashville car crash of driving under the influence, possessing drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest. An arrest affidavit says former Republican Rep. Jeremy…
SOMERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man whose violent arrest for alleged traffic violations is under investigation by state police says he was stopped because he was a young Black man driving a nice car. Brandon Calloway spoke with an…
Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today. It's a prime example of the way germs shape us over time, scientists…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leslie Jordan, the Emmy-winning actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story,” has died. He was 67. [caption id="attachment_1225886"…
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College (THE CONVERSATION) This year Diwali, a popular festival for Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs, will be celebrated on Oct. 24, the Amavasya, or new moon day, of the month of Kartik in the traditional Indian lunar…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin. Another former officer waived his right to a jury trial, setting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency has been named to a national post. TEMA Director Patrick Sheehan is the new president of the National Emergency Management Association for a term of one year. The…
Before he began tearing the roof off arenas as lead singer of hard rock icon AC/DC, Brian Johnson was fixing roofs. FILE - Brian Johnson of AC/DC performs with the Foo Fighters at "Vax Live: The…
By Teresa M. Walker - AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andrew Adams r eturned an interception 76 yards for the first pick-6 of his career, and the Tennessee Titans never trailed in beating the Indianapolis Colts 19-10…
By Jim Vertuno - AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78.…
By Alicia Davidson - The Daily Memphian undefined MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis and Memphis International Airport will co-host an exhibit depicting the civil rights movement in Fayette…
By Jake Coyle - AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros.' "Black Adam" opened with an estimated $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Dwayne Johnson his biggest box-office weekend as a leading man and launching the…
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — The FBI says a person was taken into custody following what authorities described as a "barricade situation" at a U.S. Army base outside the nation's capital. The FBI said in a statement Sunday that a…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) — A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday, officials said. In a statement, Washington County Schools Superintendent Jerry Boyd said the diver jumped…
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry's latest move is one for the books. The NBA superstar is launching a graphic novel series, "Stephen Curry Presents!: Sports Superheroes," in partnership with Penguin Workshop. The first of four planned installments will focus…
By Adrian Sainz - Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee business owner who scaled a wall outside the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to four years in prison after he was convicted of five charges connected to the…
By Kimberlee Kreusi - Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different…
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who released a swarm of bees on sheriff's deputies as they tried to serve an eviction notice is facing multiple assault and battery charges, authorities said. Rorie S. Woods, 55, pleaded not guilty…
By Al Lesar - Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This day in Princeton Fant's career at Tennessee was a long time coming. The 6-foot-2, 245-pound redshirt senior came to Rocky Top as a running back with a strong arm.…
By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S.…
By Travis Loller - Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It was a crisp fall day when biologist Bernie Kuhajda drove to a nondescript trickle of water running through a Middle Tennessee cow pasture to try to keep a small,…
NEW YORK (AP) — Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of the three singing Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, has died at age 85. Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A memorial service at the Grand Ole Opry in honor of Loretta Lynn will be carried live and commercial-free on CMT. Performers for the Oct. 30 celebration include Brandi Carlile, Crystal Gayle, Darius Rucker, George Strait,…
LONDON (AP) - A computer hacker who stole unreleased songs from British pop star Ed Sheeran and American rap artist Lil Uzi Vert has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Adrian Kwiatkowski, of Ipswich in southern England, hacked the…
SUMMERFIELD, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl caused a stir at a north Florida middle school this week when she handed out more than $10,000 that officials say she stole from her grandmother's safe. Marion County deputies responded to Lake…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees of Chattanooga's Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School blasted a prayer meeting over the school's exterior loudspeaker during the night, although district officials said it was an accident. An unidentified neighbor who could hear the praying…
By Caroline Eggers, WPLN-FM- undefined NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms. To respond to this risk, climate scientists, engineers…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court late Friday issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay while it…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has been sentenced to serve four months behind bars. He was convicted of defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The 68-year-old was…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. …
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A convicted felon who was released from prison after giving key trial testimony about the slaying of Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo plans to change his plea to guilty on weapons charges filed shortly after he…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week ahead of another expected rate increase by the Federal Reserve when it meets early next month. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville social club owner on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a campaign finance scheme that also involves a Tennessee state senator's failed 2016 congressional campaign. Joshua Smith, left, leaves federal court with…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man testified Tuesday that he saw an acquaintance shoot his friend and business partner, unprovoked, outside his Tennessee home in a killing that authorities said sparked a daylong crime rampage that paralyzed Memphis. Marcus Cash…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed. Putin didn’t immediately spell out the steps that would be taken under martial law but said his order was effective…
NEW YORK (AP) — A new study finds that some people really are “mosquito magnets” and it probably has to do with the way they smell. FILE - This 2006 file photo provided by the Centers…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is promising that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion…
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — A small plane crashed Tuesday on a road in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, killing one person, authorities said. In this photo released by the Brentwood, Tennessee Police Department, the wreckage of…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A pickup truck struck two University of Mississippi students in a parking lot in downtown Oxford, killing one of them and injuring the other, police said. Photos of the suspects shared by…
NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar General is facing another $1.68 million in fines after government safety inspectors found violations at four of the chain's stores in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, the federal regulators announced Monday. During inspections in April 2022,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department has begun accepting applications for President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation — a plan that makes 43 million Americans eligible for at least some debt forgiveness. President Joe Biden…
(AP) -- The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after being booted off Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts. The acquisition of Parler would give West, legally known as Ye,…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones have struck Ukraine’s capital, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. The attack sent people scurrying for shelter and came a week after Russia unleashed its most…
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Residents of Stockton, California, were able to rest easier following the weekend arrest of a man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings over a period of three months…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference has fined Tennessee $100,000 for a wild, field-storming celebration after a win over Alabama. Meanwhile, the school has turned to fans to help pay for new goalposts. Tennessee fans…
BERLIN (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's strategy through 2026. The initiative…
