TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Plagued by a shortage of stadium workers and complaints about long concession lines at home football games during the pandemic, the University of Alabama has contracted with an online app. The school is also making other…
Tennessee officials will hold eight town hall events as part of a new review of the state's K-12 education funding formula.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee system has increased the amount a family can earn and still have a student qualify for a UT Promise scholarship. UT Promise is a last-dollar scholarship that guarantees free tuition and fees…
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - The University of Tennessee System will make more families eligible for the UT Promise scholarships. During a Trustee committee meeting on Thursday, they announced their plans to raise the qualifying income level from $50,000 to $60,000.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nashville’s Metro Council has approved implementing new regulations for the city’s numerous entertainment vehicles that often loudly cruise down lower Broadway. The Tennessean reports that the council voted 33-3 on Tuesday on an ordinance that establishes a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for setting fires at four churches. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that 28-year-old Alan Douglas Fox of Nashville admitted during the plea…
An Alabama man who avoided execution in February is scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman taken at gunpoint from an ATM location and shot in a cemetery.
Tennessee labor officials say they are unable to reject a federal rule designed to protect health care workers from COVID-19 despite receiving stern instructions earlier this week from Republican lawmakers to do so.
Before they go trick or treating, make sure the child has a good dinner, a healthy dinner.
A man killed a woman and then died during a shootout with police at an apartment building in Atlanta's midtown neighborhood early Wednesday, police said.
Mike Durant, best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and held prisoner in the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident, is joining the U.S. Senate race in Alabama.
Authorities say a Tennessee man has died after falling off a boat while fishing on a lake.
A 6-month old infant was killed by a dog attack in Sevier County.
BIG SANDY, Tennessee (WDEF) - TBI agents attempted to arrest a man for the murder of his own son last year in West Tennessee. But it wasn't easy. The case began last November with the death of 27 year old…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says a proposed ballot initiative to require that the attorney general be confirmed by state lawmakers after the current process of selection by the state Supreme Court would make the position…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee is poised to spend approximately $900 million of its tax revenues on incentives, infrastructure projects and more under an agreement with Ford Motor Co. The sweeping spending…
Hundreds of people were ordered to report for jury duty Monday in Georgia for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors to hear the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their neighborhood.
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) - Officials say one person was fatally shot and seven others were wounded at Grambling State University in the second deadly shooting at the Louisiana school within four days. The university says the shooting happened around 1…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election. Abrams says what happens in the most watched…
ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia newspaper reports that government regulators have no idea how many of the state's 34,000 elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks are overdue for inspections. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the problem is in a decade-old…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to reinstate a professor who was acquitted of federal charges that had accused him of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants, a…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil suffered broken ribs after falling off the stage at a concert Friday in Tennessee, his guitarist told the crowd in a video circulated widely on social media. In video footage…
ATLANTA (AP) — One of the world’s largest elevator towers will soon be opened to test elevators of the future as well as current ones high above the Atlanta suburbs. TK Elevators' 420-foot (128 meters) tower is set to become…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Power Co. customers will likely pay another $224 million a year for the first of two nuclear reactors near Augusta. The company says it amounts to another $4 each month for every residential customer. The unit…