NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The new gift is one of several Parton has made to the center over the years, including a…
By DEEPA BHARATH and PETER SMITH Associated Press ANAHEIM, California (AP) - Bart Barber, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is vowing to expedite sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He spoke a day…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Like most performers, country music artist Sophia Scott is pumped to be back on stage again. Her new EP "One of These Days" just came out June 2. She spent…
ROME, Ga. (AP) - A runaway dump truck struck and killed two men in northwest Georgia on Tuesday, leaving two others with serious injuries. Local news outlets report the brakes failed on a dump truck that was carrying asphalt for…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The Tennessee Department of Education has released the 2021-22 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) state-level test results. And the administration says they like what they see. The TCAP test are used to show how the state…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Tennessee executions are on hold while the state fixes their quality control issues with lethal injections. And now an expert says that could be a long time coming. So the execution of Chattanooga's Harold Wayne Nichols…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- CMA Fest wrapped up in Nashville Sunday night. Most of the country artists News 12 spoke to at the event have a connection to the Tennessee Valley - like Hannah…
TENNESSEE (WDEF) - The TWRA is reminding everyone that fishing is free on Saturday. Tennessee is suspending their license requirements, and the fee that goes with it, for a Free Fishing Day. They encourage everyone to take a kid out…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee officials say former Alabama quarterback Jay Barker has entered what Tennessee prosecutors called a “best interest” plea to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment after an arrest in January on a felony domestic violence charge.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- Grab those cowboy hats and boots - CMA Fest is back! The annual country music festival and fundraiser had to be canceled the last two years, because of the pandemic.…
UPDATE: Brother of 32 year old Robert Tyler White says he was depressed and suicidal. White was the man who got into a fight with a School Resource Officer outside an elementary school in Gadsden where children were reporting for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Fishing without a license in Tennessee will be allowed for one day during the state’s upcoming free fishing day. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says anyone may fish for free without a license in Tennessee’s public…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - tnAchieves is re-imagining their mentoring program for students to deal with the new realities of college life. Basically, fewer people are going to college since the pandemic... down 9%. The tnAchieves program offers university scholarships and…
JACKSON, Tennessee (WDEF) - Tennessee state troopers say they confiscated 44 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl in one traffic stop on Monday. But they had to work for it. A trooper pulled over a flatbed truck pulling a trailer on…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say one child died and three others were in critical condition following a fire that destroyed a home in East Tennessee. The Knoxville Fire Department told news outlets that crews responded Monday afternoon to a…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - The National Park Service says a fence topped with barbed wire is being added to a 155-foot high bridge over a scenic Tennessee valley in an effort to prevent people from jumping off. Officials said in…
UNDATED (AP) - Lawyers have revealed a potential defense for an Alabama prisoner who walked out of jail with a corrections official, prompting an intensive manhunt. Attorneys for Casey White argue he was in the “care and custody” of jail…
Gov. Executive Order By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Lee has announced he does not support restricting firearms or strengthening gun control laws in response to recent mass shootings in Tennessee and around the country.…
ABINGDON, VA (FOOD CITY) - Food City has issued the following recall notice on infant formula in one of their stores: Earlier this year, Abbott initiated an infant formula recall, including Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare powdered infant formula. …
SCOTTSBORO, Alabama (WDEF) - Law Enforcement officials in our area are on the lookout for a man who escaped from a prison in Southern Alabama. 48 year old Johnny Lewis Payne got away from the Elba Community Based Facility early…
By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's top elections official appeared Thursday before a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the…
FALL CREEK FALLS, Tennessee (WDEF) - Dunlap Fire Department members helped with the rescue of a juvenile who jumped from the top of a waterfall. It happened at Fall Creek Falls State Park. Officials say the juvenile jumped (or…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The CMA Fest is prohibiting Confederate flag imagery at its four-day country music festival. The Country Music Association said in a statement to The Tennessean that the decision to enact the policy this year was based on…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - Sticker shock was originally scheduled to return to Georgia gas pumps on Wednesday, June 1st. That's when the state gas tax suspension was supposed to end when it was passed at the end of the Georgia…