NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state House Transportation Committee has voted to kill a bill seeking to require toddlers to ride in rear-facing car seats until age 2. Democratic Rep. John Ray Clemmons of Nashville said his bill would update…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Senate has voted to prohibit abortion clinics from locating near public schools. Senators approved the bill Tuesday on a 27-6 vote, sending it to the House. Republican Sen. Paul Sanford is sponsoring the bill…
PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala. (AP) - A northwest Alabama woman and her boyfriend are jailed following the death of the woman's 1-year-old daughter. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Hailey Rose Renfroe of Phil Campbell is charged with aggravated child…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The House Education Administration and Planning Committee voted today to send a controversial Bill that would force Transgender students to use sex-matching bathrooms to summer study. The Tennessee General Assembly Fiscal Review Committee stated that should this…
Dalton, GA (WDEF) - The Dalton Police Department is hoping a member of the public can identify a woman who stole a wallet that a customer accidentally left behind at a Food City grocery store. The incident happened shortly after…
Lawmakers work out budget deal that will give state employees a raise.
TWRA announces new hunting access to WMA opened last fall
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Nashville CBS affiliate WTVF reports that a plan carrying two teenagers from Nashville to Wichita crashed on a Kansas golf course when the engine died. A 17-year-old named Christian Dell was piloting the plane and 18-year-old…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - A police report says between 30 and 50 teenagers were involved in a fight that left an Augusta youth stabbed to death. The Augusta Chronicle reports that 18-year-old Demajhey Bell died Sunday morning at Augusta University Medical…
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - A high school teacher from north Alabama is charged with having sexual relations with two students. Decatur police say 42-year-old Carrie Cabri Witt faces two counts of being a school employee engaging in sex with a…
TALLASSEE, Ala. (WHNT) – Police in central Alabama are asking for the public’s help to find Kiara Nicole Neal. Kiara is a 14-year-old black female. The Tallassee Police Department says the teenager was last seen in the Montgomery area on…
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The president of an Atlanta-area college says an explosion that seriously injured a food worker could be linked to a buildup of gases in a sewer line. A statement from Georgia Gwinnett College President Stas Preczewski…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Many Tennessee farmers who participated in the state's return to industrial hemp farming are not going to try to grow the highly regulated seed again. In 2015, the state had about 50 farmers sign up to…
SPRINGVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama prison officials are investigating an inmate stabbing at the St. Clair Correctional Facility northeast of Birmingham. Department spokesman Bob Horton says an inmate was stabbed during a fight in a housing unit Saturday afternoon at…
Claims in lawsuit are "just false"
Family had just checked in to Knight's Inn last night
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Police say 39 arrests were made during the St. Patrick's annual festival in Savannah, the coastal city's largest celebration of the year. Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Eunicia Baker said in an email Sunday that police…
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) - Police say a teenage mother has been located after a newborn was left outside a dental office in suburban Atlanta. Henry County police Capt. Joey Smith tells local news media that the infant boy was found…
KNOXVILLE (WVLT) - Sara Bullock talks and grins like any other one year old. The only only difference is she was born without parts of her brain. "It's a lot of holding, a lot of one-on-one with her," said Sara's dad, Jeremy…
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - A coroner in northwest Alabama says the body of a second missing fisherman has been recovered from the Tennessee River. Colbert County Coroner Carlton Utley tells local media the body of 26-year-old Jeremiah Sanders was found…
ATLANTA - Mindful of Atlanta's bid to host the Super Bowl, Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Friday he opposes a so-called "religious freedom" bill approved by the Georgia Legislature that protects opponents of same-sex marriage amid concerns it could lead…
MEMPHIS (WVLT/WREG) - A man has been arrested after he allegedly attacked a family member with a two-pronged meat fork. Carlos Brown was arrested late Friday night and charged with aggravated assault. Officers were called to Methodist North Hospital around 9…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say a worker has died while working on a construction project in Shelby County. Mickey Keaton, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, said the construction worker died Saturday at the site where a…
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an Alabama attorney and occasional fill-in judge has been arrested on child porn charges. Local news media reports that 52-year-old Vincent Smith is charged with four counts of possession of child pornography. Smith was…