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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A U. S. Supreme Court ruling gives police greater powers when entering your home without a search warrant.

Monroe County authorities have confirmed a shooting victim has been picked up emergency air unit.

A study released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found that law enforcement officials want better state laws and training to find and stop human sex trafficking in Tennessee.

Someone obviously not bothered by heights has painted two large faces high on a silo at a former General Mills plant in Johnson City.

A police officer has been arrested on two counts of assault after allegedly hitting another man and pushing a woman to the ground while off-duty, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced.

Allen Wayne Brock was being sought by the Middlesboro (Kentucky) Police Dept. and was located with the help of several tips from the public, according to the Middlesboro Police Dept.

Federal and state arson investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire and explosion at a Nashville ammunition store that killed the shop's owner.

Clarksville Police spokesman Jim Knoll says a masked man entered a residence late Sunday and there was an exchange of gunfire. A person who was a guest in the home was wounded and left with the invader.

A Knox County man whose son and girlfriend were killed in a violent home invasion has testified the suspect he fatally shot smiled at him.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is probing the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a West Tennessee mobile home.