The plea bargain was approved Wednesday, allowing 28-year-old John Bradley Wiser to plead guilty in the beating and strangulation death of his wife Shannon Wiser in front of her two young sons.

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted the former city finance director of Winchester with a variety of charges after money was stolen.

A city police report stated officers arrested 18-year-old Cody Scott Smith after a woman's purse was grabbed from her shopping cart at Rugged Warehouse.

A plea agreement under which Jarvis Payne pleaded guilty to second-degree murder brought him a 15-year sentence pronounced by Shelby County Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward on Tuesday.

A former Clinton police officer, who was previously indicted on a charge of statutory rape, faces an additional count of Possession of a Scheduled Drug.

Three men have been arrested in connection with a recent string of robberies and burglaries, the Knoxville Police Dept. announced on Tuesday.

The Knox Co. Sheriff's Office is looking for the man who robbed an east Knox County convenience store shortly after nine o'clock on Monday night.

The Knoxville Police Dept. has identified a suspect in the shooting in Western Heights early Monday morning.

Two people were killed when an oncoming car crossed the center-line and collided with their SUV head-on last Saturday, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Hospital officials confirmed that one of the men shot in the South Clinton Pawn Shop early Monday afternoon has died. Larry Snellings, 58, had been shot at close range during a struggle over a shotgun, Clinton police said.

Two cousins charged in the torture slaying of a Chattanooga pastor have blamed each other and are asking a judge for separate trials, but the prosecutor says one trial is enough.

An audit of the Johnson Co. Mayor's Office finds more than $40,000 worth of solid waste transfer station fees were misappropriated, according to the state Comptroller's Office.

Knoxville Police Officers are trying to track down the man who robbed a fast-food establishment at gunpoint on Sunday.

Deputies with the Union Co. Sheriff's Office captured the last two suspects they believe were involved in the break in at Luttrell Elementary School in late October.

Investigators from the Knoxville Police Dept. trying to put the pieces together after a homeless man was shot to death in Western Heights early Monday morning.

With the number of gang-related homicides increasing in Chattanooga, city officials have decided to take a different approach to the violence.

A Hancock Co. woman is facing two counts of TennCare Fraud for allegedly selling prescription drugs partially paid for through the program, the Office of the Inspector General announced on Friday.

A Tennessee judge is allowing a woman charged with smothering her newborn twins in September to remain free on $250,000 bond despite a positive test for drug use.

The Tennessee Department of Correction says an inmate briefly escaped from a minimum security prison in Nashville, but has been captured.

Cecil Randall Jordan was wanted by the Idaho Dept. of Corrections for a parole conviction that stemmed from the attempted strangulation of a former girlfriend in 2005.

Deputies in Whitley County were told to keep an eye out for Bob Crawford, 54, of Tennessee, but what they didn't know they'd find in his burgundy van was more than 20 gallons of illegal alcohol.

A warning from Knoxville Police, a group of people are going around town trying to sell magazine subscriptions.

In February 2010, Mark Foster walked into Inskip Elementary and shot Elisa Luna and Amy Brace. Thursday Foster spoke on his own behalf, during his sentencing hearing.

An electrician charged with falsifying inspection records at an unfinished nuclear reactor in Tennessee has been sentenced to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.

The Union Co. Sheriff's Office arrested two more people in connection with the break in at Luttrell Elementary School late last month - and a department spokesperson says they aren't done yet.