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…
Heart problem discovered during stress test.
Rep. Karen Camper replaces Craig Fitzhugh who ran unsuccessfully for Governor.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - New University of Tennessee system interim president Randy Boyd has outlined his priorities. In a news release Monday, the university said Boyd plans to launch a search soon for the new chancellor of the flagship Knoxville…
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say a man has been found dead in a park near downtown Macon with a stab wound in his back. Bibb County deputies said homeless people who camp at the park found the body Saturday…
ATLANTA (AP) - A nonprofit group and three Georgia voters are challenging the results of the lieutenant governor's election. The Coalition for Good Governance, in a lawsuit filed Friday, alleges that an accurate result in the Nov. 6 election can't…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three of country singer Glen Campbell's children have dropped their fight to contest the validity of two wills that exclude them from any inheritance. The Tennessean reported the siblings agreed on Monday to dismiss their complaint.…
She wanted to stop a bear hunt by kidnapping the hunter's dog.
By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Jimmie Allen has made history as the first black artist to have his debut single reach No. 1 on country radio, and it happened in the same week Kane Brown,…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A woman has been accused of interfering with a legal bear hunt in Tennessee by catching and stealing a hunting dog.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a man was fatally shot after attacking his wife and father-in-law with a knife.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A new federal lawsuit is challenging Alabama's practice of suspending the driving licenses of people who can't pay traffic tickets. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Montgomery says the practice violates the Fourteenth Amendment…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials are being warned Tennessee will see modest revenue growth for both this current fiscal year and in the next after seeing a boom in economic activity. In presentations made to the State Funding Board…
MIAMI (AP) - Two children of a 52-year-old Alabama woman who died on a cruise from Florida to Aruba say she was nervous about taking the trip.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller faces a Tuesday afternoon deadline to inform prison officials whether he wants to be executed by lethal injection or electrocution.
ATLANTA (AP) - Police in Georgia say a 14-year-old girl has been fatally shot at an apartment complex.
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia governor-elect Brian Kemp has unveiled a transition team that includes former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to begin building out his administration. The incoming Republican made the announcement just three days after his…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Trump administration's top environmental official for the Southeast has resigned after being indicted on state ethics charges. Environmental Protection Agency Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson told agency employees that Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler accepted Trey…
MCMINNVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The TBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Warren County on Monday morning. Deputies were told that a suspect for a crime in another county was in their area. They spotted the vehicle and gave…
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a Tennessee man suspected in the rape of a 16-month-old boy has been arrested in Alabama.
ATLANTA (AP) - College enrollment is booming in Georgia, even as it declines nationwide.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say an officer has suffered a serious head injury from an unprovoked attack as he directed game-day traffic near the University of Tennessee.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An Episcopal diocese in Tennessee has elected its first female bishop. The Commercial Appeal reports the Rev. Phoebe Roaf will become the first woman and first African-American to lead the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. She…
Wildwood, GA (WDEF) - Dade County Deputies were dispatched to Interstate 24 at Exit 169 in Wildwood on Saturday for a multiple vehicle accident with injuries. Officers arrived on scene and found that a Roll-back Tow Truck, hauling 2 vehicles,…