MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama will stop giving the ACT Aspire test to students. The state Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday not to renew the contract with the company. Superintendent Michael Sentance said there were "several issues" with the…
ATLANTA (AP) - Mayor Kasim Reed says MARTA will take over operations of Atlanta Streetcar. Reed tells WXIA-TV that the streetcar system is being absorbed into the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority as part of a $2.6 billion expansion. Reed…
Forecasts and social media posts from the Gulf Coast
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A semitractor-trailer hauling sulfuric acid has crashed in Tennessee prompting evacuations of businesses in the Hendersonville area. Media outlets report officials say the semitrailer carrying more than 3,100 gallons of sulfuric acid and about 100 gallons…
MIAMI (AP) - The Latest on tropical weather. (all times local): 8:25 a.m. Forecasters say the Alabama and Mississippi coasts could be inundated with as much as 15 inches of rain from a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.…
Either Republican Karen Handel will claim a seat that's been in her party's hands since 1979 or Democrat Jon Ossoff will manage an upset that will rattle Washington ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Two deputies are hurt near Manchester, Tennessee, after a reported shooting at a county courthouse. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Twitter, two Coffee County deputies were injured in the shooting this afternoon at the Coffee County…
HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama mayor is offering to take Confederate-related monuments recently disassembled in New Orleans. Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail wrote to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, asking him to consider donating the monuments for display in Veterans…
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) - Dozens of domesticated rabbits at a forest preserve in Georgia have been captured. WSB-TV reports volunteers with the Georgia House Rabbit Society were at the Big Trees Forest Preserve on Sunday after capturing 24 rabbits the…
The trail will include a stop in Chattanooga.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a man fatally shot a former girlfriend outside her Nashville home before killing himself.
YULEE, Fla. (AP) - A Georgia woman died after falling from a Jeep Wrangler in Florida.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An independent commission appointed after the settlement of a Title IX lawsuit last year issued recommendations on Saturday for how the University of Tennessee's campuses can improve Title IX compliance.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is moving its back-to-school sales tax holiday to July.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A federal audit says Alabama misreported graduation rates by including students who earned an alternative diploma.
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The man credited by law enforcement with holding two Georgia prison escapees at gunpoint says he's no hero.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) — The state veterinarian is advising dog owners to monitor their pets due to reports of canine influenza in Tennessee. The UT College of Veterinary Medicine recently confirmed detection of canine influenza (CI) in four dogs in…
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - Three bodies have been found dead in a Tennessee home, in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide. News outlets report that Oak Ridge Police Chief Jim Akagi says officers conducting a welfare check Thursday…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is getting a $100,000 federal grant to encourage school districts to buy fresh local fruits and vegetables. The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries said Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will support…
Two escaped inmates from Georgia are captured in Tennessee.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has voted to raise the state mark-up on liquor to get about $8.2 million for prosecutors and state courts. The three-member board on Wednesday unanimously approved the increase. The state…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man has been convicted of the rape of his girlfriend's daughter and sentenced to life in prison. Media reports 38-year-old Bobby Birks was convicted Wednesday afternoon. Birks swore to the jury that he was…
"we are expanding, not shrinking, our effort to find these individuals."
the driver is charged with vehicular homicide and failure to maintain lane