KNOXVILLE (WVLT) - Lenoir City Police Department confirms an officer was involved in a shooting early Sunday morning. LCPD Chief Don White says an officer responded to a possible DUI on Highway 321 near Interstate 75 at around 1 a.m.…
ELBERTON, Ga. (WSB-TV) — Police in northeast Georgia are investigating a quadruple shooting that has left a man and a child dead. Elberton police in Elbert County said a man killed his girlfriend's child, shot the girlfriend, shot another adult and…
WARNING: This story contains video that may not be suitable for all viewers MEMPHIS (WHNT) - A video surfaced online Friday that has consumers shaking their heads and worried over their breakfasts. A man recorded himself urinating over a production…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (News Channel 5) - With Easter just around the corner, pet stores across the country have usually reported increases in people buying rabbits as pets, but several Mid-State animal rescue groups said in most cases it's a bad…
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA (CBS46) - A 6-year-old boy was shot at a party in Gwinnett County Saturday night. Around 6:18 p.m., Gwinnett County police officers responded to call about a person shot on Cannonball Court in unincorporated Lawrenceville. The victim, a 6-year-old…
ATLANTA (CBS46) - A patient who may have Lassa fever has arrived at Emory University Hospital’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, according to officials with Emory. Emory released the following statement: "Our patient arrived early Saturday morning and is being treated in the Serious Communicable…
NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Police say a 12-year-old boy has accidentally shot himself to death inside a suburban Atlanta home. Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Deon Washington tells local news media that the boy was playing with the gun before…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (News Channel 5) - A 16-year-old has been charged after he was found carrying a loaded gun at school. Authorities said school resource officers acted on a tip Friday at Maplewood High School. They discovered a freshman was…
JOHNSON CITY (WSBV-TV) - Police in Johnson City, Tennessee, are investigating a call involving underage children being served alcohol. Johnson City Police Chief Mark Sirois said that officers arrived at a nearby Applebee's restaurant Thursday around 5 p.m. A parent told…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Officials say that a campaign to promote tourism in the state of Tennessee has generated more than $73 million in new state and local tax revenue. A newly released state Department of Tourism Development report says…
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - A prison in southern Alabama is on lockdown after violence erupted at the facility late Friday. A prison spokesman says two prison officials were stabbed, but their injuries were not life-threatening. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state of Alabama is seeking execution dates for three death row inmates after carrying out its first lethal injection in more than two years. The attorney general's office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set…
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (WSB-TV) - A DeKalb County father shot and killed an intruder who burst into his home on Friday afternoon. The man was at home with his 4-year-old son at their home on Farrington Ridge Circle when he heard…
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a pregnant inmate has been recaptured after she escaped during a doctor's visit in Alabama. Calhoun County Chief Deputy Matthew Wade tells multiple news outlets that 24-year-old Alexandria Brooke Hamilton escaped Friday morning. Hamilton…
ATLANTA (AP) - Licensed gun owners who are 21 and older would be able to carry concealed weapons on public college campuses in Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal signs a bill headed to his desk. The proposal cleared the state…
TRI-CITIES (WJHL)- Right now the majority of inmates in Sullivan, Carter, and Greene County jails are repeat offenders. In most cases in Tennessee offenders get out years before serving their full sentence, and many land right back behind bars. A…
GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - An Etowah County grand jury has cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in a deadly shooting that happened in January. The district attorney's office in Gadsden announced Friday that grand jurors decided against any charging Rainbow…
NASHVILLE -- Senate Speaker Bo Watson (R-Hixson) expressed his support today for legislation giving teachers and principals the choice to include or exclude student's TNReady results from faculty evaluations. "I’m as frustrated and aggravated as everyone else,” said Sen. Watson. "We need…
Christa Gail Pike was convicted of torturing and killing another teenage girl at a Jobs Corps program in Knoxville in 1995
Updating three issues today before lawmakers
House reconsiders the bill they already passed that could force 12 year olds back into the seats
After banning ride sharing services in the past, airport officials moving toward allowing them beginning July 1st
Investigators call it a domestic situation
Three other girls were found safe.