MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it proceed with this week's scheduled execution of a 67-year-old inmate whose lawyers say can no longer remember his crime. The Alabama attorney general's office told justices…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Nashville say an officer was injured after his patrol car was struck by a vehicle whose driver was charged with drunken driving.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - People killed by gunfire in Alabama have increased 22 percent within a seven-year period.
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A $23 million funding proposal could expand pre-K programs in Alabama.
ATLANTA (WDEF) - The ringleader of a credit card theft ring was sentenced today in Atlanta. Prosecutors says Quentin Pickett and his co-conspirators stole credit cards from the secured baggage loading area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and from a private…
Locations in Knoxville and Lenoir City
Pike Road is outside of Montgomery
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to make medical marijuana legal in Tennessee, but only in oil-based products. Sen. Steve Dickerson of Nashville and Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby announced the bill's filing Thursday amid wide…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A prisons official says three executions are scheduled this year in Tennessee, which would be the first since 2009. Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor on Thursday confirmed James Hawkins, Billy…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Alexa Conference is going on right now in Chattanooga. Dozens are gathering at the Chattanooga Library downtown to discuss how voice technology being used across the world. The goal is to give developers the training needed to…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on videos posted by a University of Alabama student containing racial slurs (all times local): 5:50 p.m. A former University of Alabama student is apologizing for posting videos using a racial slur. Harley Barber…
MANCHESTER, Tennessee (WDEF) - Fire more District Attorney Generals have filed lawsuits involving the opiod crisis in Tennessee. They represent counties in the middle part of the state. Their targets are both the companies that make the drugs and the…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) Snow is falling this morning in the Nashville area, stretching to Murfreesboro. West Tennessee has snow and travel advisories. East Tennessee is still clear. ___ ATLANTA (AP) - The Latest on wintry weather in the Deep…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Thousands of people have celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with song and dance at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The holiday weekend was a special father and son trip for Alan Williams…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBS News) -- Police say a man went on a shooting spree in North Nashville, killing two young sisters and then carjacked and killed an elderly man. The suspected gunman's stepmother, girls' mother, suffered non-lifethreatening wound, police said.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Fire officials say a 104-year-old woman has died in a house fire in Tennessee.
HARTVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Police in Ohio are investigating what happened to a woman who went with her husband to see Elvis Presley's Graceland.
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a man who allegedly shot at a police officer been captured in Blount County.
JACKSON, Tennessee (WDEF) There were dozens of crashes today in Tennessee's ice and snow from the Mississippi River to the Cumberland Plateau. But the worst seems to have happened near Jackson on I-40. Several tractor trailers crashed around noon in…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's family and the Sons of Confederate Veterans are challenging last month's removal of Confederate statues from Memphis parks. According to The Commercial Appeal , the petition with the Tennessee Historical Commission…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville airport official says no one was injured when a United Airlines flight went off the taxiway before takeoff. Nashville International Airport spokeswoman Shannon Sumrall says passengers were de-boarded from United Airlines flight 4696 after…
Parents want clear backpacks after gun incident at Georgia school
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…