KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a man listed in a database as an Aryan Nations gang member shot an officer and is on the run. Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch tells news outlets the man opened fire…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Senate Republicans are proposing a modest tax cut that would allow more taxpayers to take the maximum standard deduction on their state income taxes. Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh said Thursday that it is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell has filed legislation to pursue TennCare work requirements for able-bodied adults without young children. In a news release Thursday, the Nashville Republican thanked President Donald Trump's administration for announcing a path…
PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee (WDEF) - How far will the "Dixie" purge go? The company that puts on her Dixie Stampede dinners this week announced they are dropping the "Dixie" from the shows in Pigeon Forge, Myrtle Beach and Branson. The…
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (WDEF) - Toyota-Mazda officials make it official. They have chosen to build a new auto plant at a site in Huntsville, Alabama. It will build 300,000 Toyota Corollas and a new small SUV from Mazda (a Chattanooga Volkswagen…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Lawyers for a woman who fatally shot a man who had picked her up for sex when she was 16 say it's unconstitutional to keep her in prison until she's 67. The Tennessean reports Cyntoia Brown's…
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) - A person briefed on the decision says Japanese automakers Toyota and Mazda have picked Alabama as the site of a new $1.6 billion joint-venture manufacturing plant. The plant will employ about…
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Singer and songwriter Denise LaSalle, whose hit "Trapped by a Thing Called Love" topped the R&B charts in 1971, has died. She was 78. Musician and producer Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell, a close family friend of LaSalle's,…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court has ruled that Tennessee won't have to recount votes for a state constitutional amendment passed in 2014 that allows tougher abortion restrictions. A 6th U.S. Circuit Court…
ATLANTA (AP) - A stalled proposal to impose new rules and limits on how Georgia colleges handle sexual violence cases is getting a new chance in the state legislature. The state Senate voted without debate Tuesday to move House Bill…
MCCAYSVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) - The city of McCaysville remains on a boil water advisory, even though the deep freeze is over. The city issued the advisory and asked customers to conserve water last Friday because of frozen pipes. Now they…
NASHVILLE (AP) 4:30 p.m. President Donald Trump is hailing the Republican tax overhaul law during a pitch to rural America at a meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Trump notes in Nashville, Tennessee, that he's the first president to…
President Trump has arrived in Nashville to speak to the American Farm Bureau Federation's 99th Annual Convention.
ATLANTA (AP) - Prosecutors say a Georgia man tried to pay someone cash and basketball tickets to kill his ex-wife. The U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta said Monday in an email that a grand jury indicted 29-year-old Michael McEarchern of…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers return to Montgomery on Tuesday to begin the 2018 legislative session that comes at the start of an election year.
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia state lawmaker has proposed hate crime legislation, saying it's time for the state to impose harsher penalties on people convicted of crimes motivated by hate.
ATLANTA (CBS News) -- A film company faces a citation and fine after a stuntman for "The Walking Dead" fell to his death last year during filming on the hit show's Georgia set, federal authorities said Friday.
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - Federal authorities say Customs and Border Protection agents at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport have seized two boxes of bottles described as containing ink and valued at $90 each but really were filled with liquid methamphetamine worth nearly $300,000.
ROCKWOOD, Tennessee (WVLT) - Roger Sharp is always willing to help his customers. He's also willing to help thieves know when they've done wrong. "We have zero tolerance for shop lifting." WATCH AS A YOUNG MAN WALKS INTO THIS IGA…
GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - A fire has destroyed the home of a woman who accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct. Authorities say, however, that there is no indication the blaze had anything to do with the allegations.…
CENTRE, Alabama (WDEF) - A two vehicle collision killed a Berry College student Friday morning in northeast Alabama. It happened on the causeway going over Lake Weiss between Centre and Cedar Bluff. A pickup and a car hit head-on before…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee health officials say three children have died from the flu. Department of Health spokesman Bill Christian told media that two deaths were recorded in East Tennessee and one was recorded in Middle Tennessee. He says…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials say the heat is back on for almost the entire Tennessee prison that lost its main heating source on New Year's Day. Tennessee Department of Correction spokeswoman Alison Randgaard said Thursday morning all of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a teenage girl has been charged with fatally shooting a Tennessee man. Nashville police say in a statement that the 16-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday night and charged with criminal homicide in the Nov.…