NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A state record-setting $93 million-plus was spent in the open U.S. Senate contest in Tennessee that Marsha Blackburn won last month. According to federal campaign finance reports due Thursday, Blackburn's campaign spent about $16 million throughout…
BLUE RIDGE, Georgia (WDEF) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announces two more arrests for a murder in Fannin County this week. Investigators had already charged a pair of 15 year olds with the shooting. Now they have arrested 15…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a woman and her baby fell 20 feet (6 meters) into a storm drain and were underground for more than 30 minutes. Clarksville police tell news outlets the two were rescued Thursday…
ATLANTA (AP) - Customers at two suburban Atlanta Walmart stores received a holiday surprise when they found out actor Tyler Perry had paid for their layaway items. Perry, who intended the gift to be anonymous, confirmed the move in a…
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) - The Latest on the shooting of a police officer southeast of Atlanta (all times local): 4 p.m. Authorities say a single gunshot critically wounded a police officer and killed another man as the two struggled after…
We also include an account of the original, graphic murder.
Accused of killing a man in Morgantown in Fannin County.
ATLANTA (WDEF) - Two republicans easily won runoffs on Tuesday in Georgia. Both races were very close in November. But both Brad Raffensperger and Chuck Eaton won the cabinet level races with around 54% of the vote. Raffensperger will take…
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee official says a man stranded for three days on a mountain after crashing an all-terrain vehicle has been rescued after setting a fire to draw rescuers to his location. Walden Creek Fire Chief Tim…
As Chattanooga debates scooters on bike paths, a driver on the streets of Nashville gets plowed over.
CROSSVILLE, Alabama (WDEF) - Austin Dell Gilbert has been charged with a fatal stabbing on Sand Mountain Sunday. It happened around 2 PM on Highway 68 in Crossville. Investigators say the 27 year old got into a fight with 42…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An ambulance has crashed on a Tennessee highway, killing a medic and a patient.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on Kid Rock's comments and the Nashville Christmas Parade (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Kid Rock's profane comments on live TV have gotten him booted from leading the Nashville Christmas Parade. Instead, the parade…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The Tennessee Historical Commission has added a church in Whitwell to the National Register of Historic Places. Whitwell Presbyterian Church was built around 1892, though people still argue over the exact date. It still has a small congregation…
Deal collapses that would have let a private company finish the nuclear reactors that TVA began to build 40 years ago.
Entertainer is grand marshal of Nashville Christmas parade.
Middle Tennessee chief accused of making illegal requests from the Criminal Justice Portal System over several months.
DADE COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - The Dade County Sheriff is reopening cold case to confirm possible local connection to convicted serial killer, Samuel Little. The Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross says he found out Thursday from a Nashville news station.…
The booming casino business in Tunica, MS has hit hard times.
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If David Earl Miller dies in Tennessee's electric chair next week for the 1981 murder of Lee Standifer, the slain Knoxville woman's mother won't be there to witness it. In a…
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on the shooting of an Alabama man by a police officer at a mall. (all times local): 5:25 p.m. The mother of a young black man killed by a police officer in an Alabama…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a knife-wielding woman shot by a Tennessee police officer has died. Authorities say Knoxville police officer James Gadd shot 49-year-old Sierra McCouley out of fear for his life Monday afternoon. Gadd was not wounded.…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - A former attorney faces wire and tax fraud charges from a fantasy football lottery scheme. Prosecutors says 53 year old Timothy Cobb of Atlanta promised investors he would set up the fantasy league through the Georgia…
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A second Tennessee prisoner is requesting to die in the electric chair rather than by lethal injection. Lawyers for David Earl Miller have argued that Tennessee's midazolam-based, three-drug injection method causes…