SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Shia LaBeouf will spend the next year on probation after the "Transformers" actor pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction stemming from a public outburst in Georgia. LaBeouf appeared before a Recorder's Court judge Thursday…
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia teacher surrounded by controversy over students wearing "Make America Great Again" T-shirts has given her resignation to school officials. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Lyn Orletsky sent her resignation to the Cherokee County school board,…
SECTION, Alabama (WDEF) - A Sand Mountain woman was indicted on charges of possession and burglary. But her case got worse when officers served the papers. Jackson County Lt. Craig Holcomb delivered the indictments to the home of Katherine Michelle…
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - The National Rifle Association has launched a new insurance program for people who shoot someone. And it's stirring criticism from gun-control advocates who say it could foster more violence and give…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority has fired Rob Wigington as its president and CEO. The airport's board of commissioners voted unanimously to remove Wigington, citing a "a fiduciary duty to do what is best for the…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (WDEF) - Dolly Parton will assist with the ongoing relief efforts around the United States and its territories by making a contribution to the One America Appeal for Hurricane Relief to assist with immediate life sustaining needs…
Judge Angela Duncan told her "Don't come back." "I won't" said Payne.
he is experiencing "the cognitive symptoms that are associated with this type of Parkinson's."
CENTRE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a work-release inmate who left a job site in Alabama has been recaptured in Georgia. Al.com reports that 40-year-old Jimmy Wayne Blair Jr. walked away from a construction site about 10:30 a.m. Monday in…
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia lawmaker says Scrappy the Owl, the mascot at the university where five cheerleaders have been kneeling during the national anthem, had no business leading students in a march through campus to support the cheerleaders.…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The truck stop chain controlled by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has publicly distanced itself from former employees charged with defrauding customers. But court records show the board…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The iconic Grand Ole Opry House in Tennessee's capital city will undergo a $12 million expansion to add parking, larger retail space and an enhanced area for backstage tours. The Tennessean quotes Ryman Hospitality CEO Colin…
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - A group of Georgia cheerleaders say they'll take a knee in the stadium tunnel when the national anthem is played at Saturday's homecoming game since their university moved them off the field after an earlier demonstration.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee education officials believe nearly 10,000 assessment tests across the state were scored incorrectly. The Commercial Appeal reports that about 9,400 of the approximately 600,000 TNReady tests that were taken in the last school year were…
ATLANTA (AP) - The average gas price in Georgia has decreased more than 30 cents over the past month. AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins told WXIA-TV that, "Motorists have enjoyed a monthlong plunge at the pump after prices skyrocketed because of…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.
ATLANTA (AP) - A shiny orange fish living in a north Georgia river is being considered for federal protection as a rare species.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - While Federal Emergency Management Agency denials and reversals have roiled some communities following natural disasters, officials in Tennessee's capital have been unusually successful at winning their appeals.
ATLANTA (AP) - Police have charged an Atlanta woman with murder in the deaths of two of her sons, ages 1 and 2.
LYONS, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia soldier killed in an ambush in Africa has returned home to be laid to rest.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Historical Commission has denied a request from Memphis officials to remove a statue of a Confederate general from a city park.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Chicago-based company says it could save the University of Tennessee system $6.8 million on its facilities and maintenance costs.
ATLANTA (AP) - A new report shows that airports in large cities are gaining passengers - and smaller towns are losing them.
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (AP) - Deer season has opened in Georgia for hunters using bows and muzzle-loading guns.