NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee State University history professor is working with Apple Inc. and a national technology center at the university to create an app highlighting some of the lesser known participants in the civil rights movement in…
GILT EDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man has died after his aluminum boat capsized on the Hatchie River in West Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says the body of 59-year-old Steven D. Campbell was found in…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed funding 20 additional Tennessee Highway Patrol officers for Shelby County to help fight crime in the Memphis area. In a news release Wednesday, Lee said his proposed budget for the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — State attorneys general have launched a nationwide investigation into TikTok and its possible harmful effects on young users’ mental health. It represents a widening of government scrutiny of the wildly popular video platform. The investigation was announced…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee says hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin March 21. Sen. Dick Durbin, the committee chairman, announced the hearing schedule on Wednesday as Jackson was holding her first meetings with…
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority have signed a new memorandum of understanding to work together on decarbonization technologies. High-voltage power lines carry electricity generated by the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted to demand that Russia stop its offensive in Ukraine and withdraw all troops, with nations from world powers to tiny island states condemning Moscow. The vote Wednesday was 141 to…
The Associated Press is fact-checking President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union speech as he grapples with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a stalled domestic agenda and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the claims we’ve examined: COVID-19 BIDEN: “Severe cases are…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden has vowed in his first State of the Union address to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still…
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled opening day. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by victims of a 2016 wildfire that swept through Great Smoky Mountains National Park into Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Judge J. Ronnie Greer ruled that the victims' claims didn't specify that…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation requiring U.S. House and Senate candidates to meet the same criteria imposed on state legislative candidates. Tennessee rules mandate that candidates be state residents for at least three years and…
By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won’t be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure. But it might be a step toward immersing younger tribal citizens in the language…
Governors and lawmakers in numerous U.S. states are seeking to add to the financial squeeze on Russia over its war against Ukraine. States were taking steps Monday to pull state pension and treasury funds out of investments in Russian-held entities…
(AP) -- Omicron is fading away, and so are Americans’ worries about COVID-19. Fewer Americans now say they’re concerned they’ll be infected compared with January following the rise and fall of the wildly contagious coronavirus variant. That's according to a…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A sailor accused of starting the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard will face a court martial for arson. The Navy said Friday that Ryan Mays will to be tried in military court on two…
(AP) ---Corporate partnerships keep falling for Phil Mickelson in the wake of his shocking comments about Saudi Arabia and his involvement in a proposed super league the Saudis are funding. The Desert Sun reports that Mickelson no longer will be…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear forces on high alert amid tensions with the West over his invasion of Ukraine. The order means Putin wants Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch and…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is severing ties with a research university it helped establish in Russia, citing the country’s “unacceptable” invasion of Ukraine. The Cambridge university said it notified the Skolkovo Institute of Science and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials plan to reinstall the fence around the U.S. Capitol that had stood for months after the January 2021 insurrection. This time it's for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. It comes as…
(AP) ---There's a glaring carve-out in President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia, and that's oil and natural gas, which will continue to flow freely to the rest of the world. That means that money will also keep flowing into Russia.…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — “Pawn Stars” celebrity Rick Harrison is being sued by his mother in a dispute over family assets and ownership of the Las Vegas business featured on the long-running reality TV show, according to court records. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests that the Biden administration recently made available to Americans still haven’t been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. That's according to administration…
BOSTON (AP) - A person interested in tigers might take out a book from a library or watch a documentary. But authorities in Massachusetts say a man has taken his interest in tigers to a dangerous level. State police say…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A forest pest that bedevils Maine residents and tourists with hairs that cause an itchy rash appears to be spreading due to warming temperatures. The brown-tail moth is a scourge in America’s most forested state, where…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Tennessee man who admitted bribing a Virginia sheriff to secure jail medical services contracts has been sentenced to three years in prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Gerard Boyle was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say 14 people were shot before dawn at a hookah parlor and that one man died and two people suffered critical injuries. Police Capt. Dori Koren says the shooting happened at about 3:15…
VIENNA (AP) — A tourist bus headed for the Austrian Alps crashed on a local highway in Upper Bavaria Saturday morning. Forty-three of the 61 people on board were injured, according to Bavarian police. Around 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities have seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis woman sentenced to prison for illegally registering to vote while on probation will get a new trial on that charge. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Mark Ward granted a motion for the new trial…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A $350 million package of additional U.S. military assistance to Ukraine announced Saturday includes “anti-armor, small arms and various munitions, body armor and related equipment,” according to John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary. Separately, a senior defense…
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Students at five historically Black colleges and universities will share $250,000 in scholarships from Dearborn, Michigan-based The Auto Club Group. The AAA Social Justice Innovator Scholarship will be offered to students pursuing careers in science, technology,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor has placed two relatives on leave after the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office found that he violated a policy against nepotism. According to news outlets, a report from the Comptroller’s Office said an investigation determined Hamilton…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's lead investigative agency is looking into a state prison inmate death that authorities are calling a homicide. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Susan Niland identified the deceased Riverbend Maximum Security Institution inmate as 40-year-old Bradley…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has introduced federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. In selecting Jackson,…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops are bearing down on Ukraine’s capital, with explosions and gunfire sounding in the city. The invasion of a democratic country has fueled…
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Political observers say Republican candidates are using transgender people as a classic “wedge issue” as 2022 campaigns heat up. An attack ad in the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania seeks to cast Mehmet Oz as a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Donor Services registered 107,000 new organ and tissue donors in Tennessee last year, surpassing its goal of adding 100,000 donors. The new registrations came during the nonprofit’s inaugural #BeTheGift Challenge, with individuals and organizations challenging…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled House has advanced legislation banning Memphis from requiring police officers to live in the county they patrol. The proposal was initially introduced as a statewide ban. However, the bill was tweaked on the House…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit backed by the Tennessee Democratic Party seeks to block new Republican-drawn redistricting maps for the state House and Senate. The challenge filed in Davidson County Chancery Court by three voters Wednesday argues they violated…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as “child abuse." Opponents say the directive by the two-term Republican is a first by any governor…
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- Tennessee lawmakers are mulling a proposal advocated by the governor to make Juneteenth a state holiday. On Tuesday, a Senate panel advanced the legislation backed by GOP Gov. Bill Lee. House lawmakers briefly stalled the bill hours later,…
WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — As almond trees start to bloom in California, so do beehive thefts that have become so prevalent that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="e3ae823abe7a0392448224697b44bb57a0c01469" vtitle="Beekeepers…
Despite advancements in blood screening technology, gay and bisexual men still face restrictions when donating blood. For decades, the U.S. and many other countries banned donations from gay and…
The U.S. Postal Service says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to placing orders for next-generation mail vehicles. That keeps the Postal Service on track for taking delivery of the first of the electric- and gas-powered delivery vehicles next…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are mulling a proposal advocated by the governor to make Juneteenth a state holiday. On Tuesday, a Senate panel advanced the legislation backed by GOP Gov. Bill Lee. House lawmakers briefly stalled the bill…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found guilty of federal hate crimes. A jury delivered its verdict Tuesday after several hours of deliberations. The jury found that father…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s social media app has launched as he seeks a new digital stage free of Big Tech limits on speech a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. His Truth…
MOSCOW (AP) — In a fast-moving political theater, Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved quickly to recognize the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in a show of defiance against the West amid fears of Russian invasion in Ukraine.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say a Nashville teenager was killed when a forklift he was operating at an equipment rental business overturned on top of him. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department says 15-year-old Jayden Dalton died Sunday.…
