MONROE, La. (AP) - A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that President Joe Biden cannot require teachers in the Head Start early education program to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision hands a victory to 24 states that had sued…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andrew Franklin Alexander, a Nashville music publisher and son of former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, has died. An obituary from his family says Alexander was 52 when he died on Friday after a short undisclosed illness.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Rhodes College in Memphis is among those schools altering its spring schedule after a resurgence of COVID-19. According to an announcement on its website, the college will begin classes remotely before moving to in-person classes on…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Planned Parenthood building has been destroyed by an early morning fire. Knoxville Assistant Fire Chief Brent Seymour tells the Knoxville News Sentinel that crews were called about 6:40 a.m. on Friday after heavy smoke…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has received its first shipments of oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 as new cases surge in the state. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for two pills, and the…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say one person has died and another has been injured in a helicopter crash in rural eastern Tennessee. WBIR-TV reports the crash happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday. The Sevier County Sheriff's Office was alerted to…
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Investigators say a Georgia woman wanted in a fatal shooting has been arrested near Nashville, Tennessee. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 29-year-old Alyssa Danielle Wild of East Dublin, Georgia was pulled over on Monday in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The downtown Nashville street where a bomb went off on Christmas morning 2020 is set to reopen to traffic and pedestrians Monday morning, though it won’t soon be back to normal. WPLN reports that Second Avenue…
ENGLEWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in eastern Tennessee are searching for a man wanted for murder in northwest Georgia. McMinn County sheriff’s deputies say they spotted and briefly chased Brandon Neil Wiseman on Sunday in Englewood. Wiseman is wanted…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a Tennessee boy was fatally shot early Christmas morning. News outlets cited police in reporting the 12-year-old boy was among three people killed in two separate shootings in Memphis on Saturday. Memphis police tweeted…
