(AP) -- Around 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census, and four other U.S. states had significant undercounts of their populations which could short-change them of federal funding in the current decade. That's…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s highest court has ruled that Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher program does not violate the state’s constitution. FILE - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delivers his State of the State address…
LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four members of the Tennessee National Guard have been honored for a lifesaving medical evacuation in the Smokies. According to a news release, the guardsmen responded last June after a 17-year-old girl was attacked by a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials with the Tennessee Democratic Party say they will host three gubernatorial debates ahead of the upcoming August primary election. According to a news release, Democratic candidates Jason Martin, Carnita Atwater and JB Smiley Jr. will…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer has pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. This photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fall of Mariupol appears at hand as Ukraine is moving to abandon a sprawling steel plant where its soldiers had held out under relentless bombardment for months, which would make it the biggest city to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind law requiring businesses to post special signs if they allow transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger on…
BUFFALO (AP) — President Joe Biden has traveled to Buffalo, New York, declaring that “evil will not win” in America. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis and the late country singer Keith Whitley will join the Country Music Hall of Fame. The 86-year-old Lewis, nicknamed “The Killer," is one of only a handful…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray points…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol has completed its mission. Ukrainian serviceman Anton pets a cat in…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say the white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket taunted law enforcement online last month and showed up in Buffalo in March. [caption id="attachment_1104019"…
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak. FILE - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., from left, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and…
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a gunman in a deadly attack at a California church was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate for Taiwanese people. Crime scene tape is stretched across the exterior of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from parents and politicians, President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday is expected to announce an agreement to reopen the largest domestic manufacturing plant of infant formula and to ease import rules to allow supplies in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is offering formula manufacturers and retailers transportation and logistics support to ease the nationwide shortage of baby formula. This comes as the administration works to bring the largest domestic plant back on line after…
MIAMI (AP) — One of the three people on a small plane was killed when it crashed onto a bridge near Miami this weekend. The aircraft lost power Saturday shortly after takeoff, coming down on the bridge and striking an…
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been killed and four others have been critically wounded in a shooting at a Southern California church. The Orange County Sheriff's Department says a suspect has been detained and a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Twelve Tennessee State Parks are joining the American Canoe Association to offer low-cost kayaking instruction next week as part of National Safe Boating Week. ACA Tennessee estimates there are approximately 1 million people regularly paddling Tennessee…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island dog whose inspiring story of going from shelter dog to life-saving police K-9 became the subject of a recent Netflix movie has been euthanized. State Police said Sunday K-9 Ruby was put down…
DOLNI MORAVA, Czech Republic (AP) — A pedestrian suspension bridge that is the longest such construction in the world has opened at a mountain resort in the Czech Republic. Sky Bridge 721 is located in the northeastern part of the…
(CBS Newspath)— AW! This baby spotted fanaloka is one of the newest residents at the Nashville Zoo in Tennessee. The zoo says they welcomed the male pup on April 29 and that he…
By: Carolyn Thompson and Michael Balsamo BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday that federal agents interviewed the parents of the white 18-year-old accused of shooting and killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears says she has lost a baby early in her pregnancy. Spears announced the loss on Instagram Saturday in a joint post with her partner, Sam Asghari. The pop superstar said in April that she…
By Carolyn Thompson, Michael Balsamo, and Dave Collins BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)— Authorities say a gunman opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and that officials are investigating it as a “hate crime and racially motived…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers later this month because they've refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” has died. He was 79. His publicist Ron Hofmann said Friday that Ward died Sunday.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education says high school students from three Tennessee cities have been named Presidential Scholars. Greta Li of University School of Nashville, Shawn X. Meng of White Station High School in Memphis and…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Most folks pick up their potting soil from a local nursery or a big box store. A group of scientists has found success using soil from an out-of-this-world source: the moon. For the first time,…
UNDATED (AP) - It's hard to tell which is the most surprising part of this story: that a 19-year-old Florida woman has a “bucket list” - or that her bucket list included getting arrested. Officials with the Monroe County Sheriff's…
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) By: Julie Watson — A baby giraffe was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with an unusual disorder that caused her front limb to bend the wrong way. Ara…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Newly released records show at two least two people connected to a planned Tennessee execution that was abruptly put on hold April 21 knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient has been sentenced to three years of probation. RaDonda Vaught reacts to victim impact statements during her sentencing in Nashville, Tenn., on…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian and British officials say Russia suffered heavy losses when Ukrainian forces destroyed the pontoon bridge enemy troops were using to try to cross a river. In this handout photo provided by…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Americans have bet more than $125 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the four years since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it. [caption id="attachment_1095130"…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nurses have traveled from around the country to protest outside the courthouse where a former Tennessee nurse will be sentenced for causing the death of a patient. RaDonda Vaught was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Top Republican leaders in Tennessee say they don’t have plans to ban contraceptives as they await a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case will be overturned. A…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers have unveiled the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly…
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires in the West is on a furious pace early this year. A firefighter works to put at a structure burning during a wildfire Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Laguna Niguel,…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. The University of Florida…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he leads the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. Biden told the second global…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic. It had held for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Ashley Judd encouraged people to seek help for their mental health after the loss of her mother, country star Naomi Judd. Ashley Judd, left, cries as she speaks while sister Wynonna Judd…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement. FILE -…
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's top prosecutor says the country plans to hold its first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier. A Ukrainian serviceman talks with a local resident after de-mining the residential area…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says he won’t seek another eight-year term as the state’s top legal counsel. FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2019 file photo, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who served 30 years of a life sentence for the fire that killed his girlfriend is now free. A judge vacated his murder conviction, declaring that 65-year-old Claude Garrett “has shown actual innocence.”…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation slowed in April after months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households. A customer pumps gas at an…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Marshals and sheriff’s deputies led an 11-day manhunt for an Alabama murder suspect and jailer who were heavily armed and preparing for a shootout when they were captured. Vandenburgh County Sheriff Dave…
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic U.S. record. That translates to roughly one overdose death every 5 minutes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released provisional…
