ATLANTA (AP) - Half of all Georgia residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 _ a figure that still trails the national average. The state Department of Public Health announced the 50 percent milestone on Monday. Nationally, a little more…
A Tennessee state senator and a Nashville social club owner were indicted on charges that they violated campaign finance laws by illegally concealing the transfer of $91,000 during the Republican lawmaker’s 2016 failed congressional campaign.
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) - Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee has a new area supervisor. She is Leisa Cook, who has been deputy forest supervisor at the Malheur National Forest in Oregon. A news…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The deadline is approaching for people impacted by deadly, destructive flooding in Tennessee to apply for federal aid. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says homeowners and renters with uninsured damage or losses in Dickson, Hickman, Houston…
ATLANTA (AP) — Country musician Travis Tritt, who canceled shows at venues that required a COVID-19 vaccine or mask-wearing, sang the national anthem before Game 6 of the NL Championship Series on Saturday night. Wearing a Braves jersey, Tritt received…
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves know what happened last October and want to avoid a repeat. The Los Angeles Dodgers plan on an encore. Atlanta held 2-0 and 3-1 leads in the NL Championship Series before the Dodgers won…
CARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say police in Tennessee fatally shot a man while attempting to take him into custody after a pursuit on Interstate 75. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that officers attempted to stop…
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.
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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.