NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say law officers have fatally shot a man walking on a major interstate in Nashville during a confrontation that shut down a bustling travel corridor for a time. Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron…
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman. That's according to minutes from the McMinn County School…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have passed their state House map, finishing the final task in their once-a-decade state legislative and congressional redistricting work. The Senate voted Wednesday to send the House plan to Republican Gov. Bill…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Gov. Bill Lee is addressing the fill review of education funding in the state. Lee stated: “Since last fall, thousands of Tennesseans have engaged with us to share how public school funding can better serve our students,…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two men have died in separate shootings involving Tennessee law enforcement officers. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says one man died early Wednesday in Shelby County and the other died Tuesday across the state…
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A statewide campaign to encourage more Tennesseans to become poll workers has launched. Secretary of State Tre Hargett launched "Be an Election Hero. Become a Poll Worker"…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jury selection is set to get underway in the murder trial of a man who killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in April 2018 with an assault-style rifle. Police have said 32-year-old Travis Reinking…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers have completed rapid passage of a new U.S. House map that splits booming, Democratic-tilted Nashville and its Black voters three ways. The map now goes to Gov. Bill Lee to sign off on…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A news release says $28.5 million in Community Development Block Grants is being dispersed across the state. The grants, recently approved by Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe, will go…
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy has been found dead with a gunshot wound inside her burning home. The Robertson County Sheriff’s Office says a colleague went to check on 22-year-old Deputy Savanna Puckett after she missed her…
