By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee State University is hoping to make history after their marching band was nominated for a Grammy in the roots gospel category. The historically Black university's Aristocrat of Bands teamed up…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - A committee appointed by Tennessee lawmakers has come out with some recommendations to tackle juvenile crimes. Lawmakers appointed the Committee on Juvenile Justice last summer. They were looking for ways to deal with rising juvenile crimes…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville International Airport has opened its new 200,000-square-foot grand lobby, with two-dozen security screening lanes and new art displays. The first passengers passed through the lobby early Tuesday, using new CT scanners that produce a 3D…
GORDON COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation shared an update on their investigation of a shooting that involved an officer on Tuesday. They say the incident resulted in the death of a 51-year-old man named Billy Dewayne…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Senators grilled Ticketmaster Tuesday about its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets. Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee debated possible action, including making tickets non-transferable to…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Southeastern Grasslands Institute is developing a grasslands conservation plan for the Cumberland Plateau in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, thanks to a $495,000 federal grant. According to a news release from the institute at Austin…
CALHOUN, Georgia (WDEF) - The GBI will investigate an officer involved shooting overnight in north Georgia. It happened in the rural community of Sugar Valley in Gordon County around 1 AM. The Gordon County Sheriff says one of his deputies…
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - A wide receiver who recently transferred to Georgia from Mississippi State has been jailed in Athens on felony and misdemeanor charges. Clarke County jail records show that Rodarius “Rara” Thomas was booked early Monday on a…
DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- More than a dozen people have been arrested following a drug investigation, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said. They say the drug operation consisted of meth, heroin and fentanyl being transported to Dickson County…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for vandalism at a women’s health clinic in Nashville. The fire occurred at the Hope…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Police say an Alabama man involved in an investigation into the death of his wife fatally shot his two children before killing himself in Tennessee. The shooting occurred Thursday morning at a home in Murfreesboro. Police…
ATLANTA, Ga. (WDEF) -- LEGO lovers of all ages have an experience to look forward to this spring. A new LEGO Discovery Center is opening in Atlanta this March. The Atlanta LEGO Discovery Center will be the first to…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton plans to bring a variety of bills to the legislation this year. Among these are exemptions to…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Department of Correction has fired its top attorney and another employee following a scathing independent report on failures within the state’s lethal injection system. Documents obtained by the AP…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The nation's largest public utility has appointed an independent panel to look into power failures that spurred the decision to implement rolling blackouts during dangerously cold conditions late last year. The Tennessee Valley Authority said Thursday…
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out executions - a move that comes after a string of troubled lethal injections in the state…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nation were cheated out of a total of about $1.6 million by someone often pretending to be…
ATLANTA, Ga. (WDEF) -- Georgia residents should be aware of home repair fraud that may occur following damaging storms, Attorney General Chris Carr said in a press release. Some things to look out for are insurance scams, price gouging and…
ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say they killed a man who shot and injured a Georgia state trooper as law enforcement officers tried to clear protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center just outside Atlanta. Georgia Bureau…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDEF) -- Georgia House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was selected to sit on the House Homeland Security, and Oversight and Accountability Committees. She was selected by the House GOP Steering Committee. The decision will still need to be…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Knox County commissioners are proposing a new highway bypass around Knoxville. Knox County Commissioner Larsen Jay stated that the highway would help alleviate the continually increasing traffic in the area. The Commission of Knox County created…
SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will require parking tags beginning March 1st, the National Park Service announced on Tuesday. They say this will not…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A public memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley will be held next weekend at Graceland, the famed Memphis home of her father, Elvis Presley. A family representative says the memorial for Lisa Marie Presley will be…
UPDATE: The Gordon County Government released that the issue has been resolved. They say the gate is now shut. They say there is still a potential for minor flooding from the water that has been released. GORDON COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF)…