Cop fatally shot in Georgia; suspect on the loose
EASTMAN, Ga. (CBS News) - Authorities say a police officer in a small, central Georgia city has been shot and killed by a suspect who remains on the loose.
2 fires caused by oily rags hit east Tennessee town in month
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - An east Tennessee community is urging the proper storage and disposal of oil-soaked rags following the fourth fire involving spontaneous combustion in the past four years.
Tennessee officials give new details in sex trafficking case
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a man accused of selling a 12-year-old girl from Texas for sex took the girl to Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville for a month before his arrest.
Georgia fugitive, his 3 missing children found in Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) - Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a Georgia kidnapping fugitive.
Another blow for VW owners: millions at risk for key hack
(CBS News) - Volkswagen owners may have another headache on their hands: a security vulnerability that allows hackers to wirelessly unlock millions of cars.
Police respond to reported shooting at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS News) - Police in North Carolina have responded to reports of a shooting at a busy mall in an affluent area of Raleigh, according to CBS affiliate WNCN.
Bonnaroo docket day nets 277 criminal cases
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - Coffee County judicial officials' first ever Bonnaroo docket day has resulted in 277 criminal cases stemming from the four-day music and arts festival.
Counting fireworks injuries a struggle in Georgia, elsewhere
ATLANTA (AP) - Most fireworks became legal in Georgia in 2015 but state officials can't say whether the number of injuries has changed - echoing a nationwide pattern in which experts believe fireworks injuries go underreported.
Report: Ferris wheel that dropped girls had worn out rivets
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A fair ride operator has received permission to renew running its rides at Tennessee fairs - other than a Ferris wheel that dropped three girls to the ground.
Iconic Nashville studios to open their doors to tourists
tour companies in the past used personal relationships to occasionally get access to recording studios, but there's never been a formal offering.
Q&A: Obama's transgender directive to schools goes to court
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama are all part of the lawsuit
2 Tennessee men accused of sexual relationship with 15 year old student
The two men are a teacher and a former school board member
Woman charged with infant's death in Gadsden crash
St. George admitted to investigators that she had used crack cocaine and consumed alcohol before driving.
Deputies: 40 arrested in child-sex sting in east Georgia
"Some offenders had to be wrestled…..some had to be chased, but in the end all the offenders ended up in the Effingham County Jail."
Police: 3 people fall from Ferris wheel in Tennessee
One girl suffers head injuries, 2 others alert and talking
Police: Father charged in fatal shooting of 11-year-old girl
He first said she was shot on the way home from her first day of school
Authorities search for man who fell from boat on Lake Lanier
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a missing man who fell out of a boat on Lake Lanier.
Mother of twins killed in hot car: "They didn't deserve to die that way"
ATLANTA (CBS46) - The mother of twin girls who died of heat-related illness after authorities said their father left them in a hot car said she just wants to hold her children again.
UPDATE: James Miller of TBI's Top 10 taken into custody
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has a new addition to the agency’s “Top 10 Most Wanted” list.
Suspect in execution-style murder of Ga. teens makes bizarre court appearance
Roswell, Ga. (CBS News) -- The suspect accused of fatally shooting two teenagers found behind a suburban Atlanta grocery store has appeared before a judge for the first time, his legs and hands shaking.
Proposed Alabama beer rule prompts privacy concerns
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's alcohol regulators want to know who is buying beer from one of the state's craft breweries and taking it home to drink.
Man stabbed at World's Longest Yard Sale
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Crossville Police say a man selling a car at the US Hwy 127 Yard sale was stabbed in the chest.
ConAgra salmonella case nearing end a decade after outbreak
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - ConAgra Foods appears close to settling a federal criminal case stemming from a salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds of Americans who ate tainted Peter Pan peanut butter nearly a decade ago.
Georgia plant employee dies after striking neck with saw
FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - An official says the death of an employee at a Georgia waste water treatment plant was an accident.