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…
By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention administrator is resigning after weeks of internal division over how best to handle an investigation into the denomination’s response to sexual abuse reports. Ronnie Floyd, president…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A newly filed lawsuit says the federal government is funding organizations that illegally discriminate against potential LGBTQ foster parents seeking to care for unaccompanied refugee children. According to the 29-page complaint…
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A second person has been killed by an exploding air bag inflator made by a Tennessee company that has been under investigation by a federal agency for more than six years…
Postal workers returned to their jobs Wednesday after the shooting of a supervisor and manager by a letter carrier inside a sorting facility in Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a man has been fatally shot by police in Tennessee when officers were executing a search warrant. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the Knoxville Police Department Special Operations Squad arrived at the home…
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say two Postal Service workers have been fatally shot at a postal facility in Memphis, the third high-profile shooting in west Tennessee in recent weeks. A third postal employee was…
ALAMO, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say a man accused of gunning down a Georgia police officer during his first shift with the department ambushed him in retaliation for the officer’s arrest of an associate hours earlier. The Georgia Bureau of…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has extended through the end of the October a COVID-19 state of emergency that relaxes some health care regulations to help hospitals with coronavirus patients.
A stalled weather front drenched Alabama, leaving high water that covered roads, swamped a Piggly Wiggly, unleashed sewage and forced water rescues. A child's death was blamed on the floods.
Investing in real estate in middle Tennessee continues to grow... but what about owning a town? The small town of Water Valley is for sale in Maury County, Tennessee.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee unveiled the state’s next standard license plate chosen by Tennesseans through a statewide vote.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with News 12 about a wide range of topics including the infrastructure bill, masking in schools, and the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Supporters of Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp are fighting back against Donald Trump and their own party leaders, angered by a rally last month in which the former president again attacked the state's chief executive.
Crews have begun working on two projects in the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area along the border of Tennessee and Kentucky.
A former NASCAR driver was killed Saturday in a shooting in Georgia that also wounded a woman.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The top two leaders of Tennessee’s General Assembly say they are working to address legislation regarding COVID-19 topics during the upcoming legislative session that will be held later this month. However, despite the declarations from House…
A teenage boy was shot and critically wounded Thursday at a school in Memphis, Tennessee, and police detained a second boy believed to be the shooter.
By BRUCE SCHREINER and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press STANTON, Tenn. (AP) — Lesa Tard expects to serve up more hot wings and cheeseburgers when the clean energy revolution comes to Stanton with Ford's plans to build a factory to produce…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The state of Tennessee is charging a couple from the North Carolina mountains with using their health care program. The Office of Inspector General accuses Laura and Alex Pickelsimer of using a Tennessee address to apply for…