May 20, 2013
Posted: 5:35 AM - A Powerball ticket sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., matched all six numbers selected Saturday night for the estimated $590.5 million prize. It's the highest Powerball jackpot in history. Read More
Posted: 5:33 AM - The Chattanooga market will add hundreds of hotel rooms in the coming year, following four years of booming revenues for its hotel industry. Read More
Updated: 5:31 AM - While the saltiest of sea captains might not choose cardboard and duct tape as the ideal building materials for his ship, they certainly fit the bill for Jason Owens' physics students. Read More
Updated: 5:27 AM - Leaders of Nashville's convention center already are mapping out a possible future expansion of a center that spans six downtown blocks and sits on 19 acres. Read More
Posted: 05/19/13 - A program to help soldiers get loans to purchase homes has gotten a permanent extension. Read More
Updated: 05/19/13 - Maryville College professor Frances Henderson is making history at the East Tennessee school. Read More
Updated: 05/18/13 - A judge has sentenced a Clarksville woman convicted of assault for pouring hot oatmeal on her husband to diversion. Read More
The Blount County Sheriff's office is looking a man and woman found dead in their home. Read More
Deputies responding to reports of a robbery at a home in Seymour discover a possible meth lab early Monday morning, according to the Blount Co. Sheriff's Office. Read More
Union County officers discover more than 300 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Saturday morning. Read More
The Long Island college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer. Read More
A Department of Veterans Affairs accounting released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press shows a heavy financial and emotional cost involving vets from Iraq, Afghanistan and even back to Vietnam. Read More
The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor. Read More
Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Read More
The Long Island college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer. Read More
A Department of Veterans Affairs accounting released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press shows a heavy financial and emotional cost involving vets from Iraq, Afghanistan and even back to Vietnam. Read More
The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor. Read More
Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Read More
Thein Sein previously served in a repressive junta, and his meetings at the White House and Congress would have been all-but-impossible before he took the helm of a nominally civilian government in 2011. Read More
Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday. Read More
A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people on Monday, Iraqi officials said. Read More
The Russian government, however, has gotten state-controlled companies and tycoons to foot more than half of the bill, which now stands at $51 billion Read More
Posted: 8:46 AM - Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for "Red." She told the crowd: "You are the longest and best relationship I ever had." Read More
Posted: 8:40 AM - Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Read More
Posted: 9:07 AM - More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Read More
Posted: 9:05 AM - A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands. Read More
