Posted: 3:49 PM The TBI said by understanding the characteristics surrounding school crime and its offenders and victims, policy makers, law enforcement, and the public can better understand how to combat crime at these institutions.

Updated: 4:47 PM Knoxville police plan to hit the interstates in full force this Memorial Day weekend.

Updated: 7:48 PM Authorities rounded up nearly a dozen more suspects just a day after arresting more than forty people on charges ranging from drug trafficking and illegal gambling to stealing property and included two former public officials.

Posted: 10:37 AM A Tennessee missionary charged with helping a woman get her child out of the United States as part of a high-profile lesbian custody case in Vermont says he's not guilty.

Updated: 9:48 AM Advocates of sentencing reform say California is an example of what could happen if states don't adopt alternative programs for those convicted of drug offenses and non-violent crimes.

Posted: 9:25 AM A Tennessee man who has taught for years in southeastern Kentucky has been charged with being drunk at school.

Updated: 4:35 AM At least 40 people, including a former University of Tennessee police officer, were arrested following a multi-agency investigation into drug-related corruption in Union County.

Updated: 6:54 PM FBI report says Knoxville is safer than it was two years ago. Violent crimes were down by more than 4% from 2009-2010. Other crimes, like car thefts and burglaries, were up.

Posted: 1:08 PM A Franklin businessman who bilked millions from investors in a Ponzi scheme will spend the next six years in a federal prison and pay millions in restitution.

Updated: 1:28 PM A Jackson man has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2009 kidnapping and murder of a Chester County woman who was abducted while shopping.

Posted: 10:00 AM John Thomas White had been charged with second-degree murder, vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident in the 2009 dragging death of 27-year-old Marie Oliver.

Posted: 9:13 AM The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population to relieve severe overcrowding that has exposed inmates to increased violence, disease and death.

Posted: 9:04 AM Crime levels fell across the board last year, extending a multi-year downward trend with a 5.5 percent drop in the number of violent crimes in 2010 and a 2.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes.

Updated: 5:38 PM Firefighters reportedly discovered evidence of a meth lab in South Knoxville home after responding to reports a person with thermal burns.

Posted: 10:59 AM The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped 5.5 percent last year compared to 2009 and the number of property crimes went down 2.8 percent, the FBI announced Monday.

Posted: 10:37 AM The estate of a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist who was found burned in an Indiana field in 2009 is suing financial institutions over money missing from his accounts.

Posted: 9:39 AM Authorities say 30-year-old Armetta Foster of Sanford, Fla., died at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga on Saturday after crashing the police cruiser on Interstate 75 in Cleveland, Tenn.

Posted: 4:31 PM The woman, who officials say is about 45 year-old, was apparently shot and left in the roadway at intersection of Highway 370 and Little Bull Run Rd., authorities said.

Updated: 4:01 PM A Knoxville couple has been charged with theft of over $60,000 in state grant money for a biodiesel plant in Morgan County that investigators say was spent for personal use.

Posted: 1:32 PM Authorities on Tuesday charged Sherwood Middle seventh-grade teacher Arlen Wilburn with statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl, The Associated Press reported.

Updated: 11:17 PM Tuesday, May 24th, is a painful day for one East Tennessee family. It's been seven years since they found Bob Kilgore stabbed to death in his Chapman Highway business. His killer is still on the loose.

Updated: 3:42 PM A federal grand jury in East Tennessee has indicted 23 people in a drug trafficking case that prosecutors say also reached into southwest Virginia, Michigan and Florida.

Posted: 3:33 PM Emails from the Drug Enforcement Administration show that some of the states scrambling to import a lethal injection sedative in scarce supply failed to properly register the shipments with the agency.

Posted: 10:52 AM Defense attorneys in Davidson County have begun using video conferencing to meet with clients who are sometimes held in prisons hours from Nashville.

Updated: 11:54 PM TBI study finds 85% of the counties in Tennessee have had at least one report of human trafficking in the last two years. Many don't even realize this is an issue in the United States, let alone in our back yard