Posted: 11:58 AM Seven people have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and other drugs in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee.

Posted: 11:56 AM Tennessee has named Dr. Karen Cline-Parhamovich, the current director of forensic pathology at East Tennessee State University's Quillen College of Medicine, as the state's new chief medical examiner.

Posted: 11:54 AM Two cousins charged in the beating and stabbing death of a Chattanooga pastor will be tried separately, with the first trial scheduled to start in November.

Posted: 4:14 AM Two special programs are this week at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

Posted: 4:10 AM Former Sens. Bill Frist and Tom Daschle and ex-Gov. Phil Bredesen will discuss information technology in health care at a conference Tuesday in Nashville.

Posted: 4:08 AM Paul Drexler of Brentwood and Gabriel Levy of Clarksville will represent Tennessee at the American Legion Boys Nation in Washington, D.C., July 20-27.

Posted: 5:19 PM Officials say the state plan to close down the Taft Youth Development Center and transfer juvenile offenders to other facilities is causing delays in assigning juveniles and creating a flow of children into local juvenile detention centers.

Posted: 5:17 PM The co-owner of a restaurant in Nashville was found dead inside the business's walk-in cooler and police believe he may have accidentally locked himself inside.

Posted: 5:15 PM A man has been convicted of murder in the shooting death of his roommate, a Sudanese refugee known as one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan.

Posted: 5:13 PM A federal judge has delayed sentencing a former Ohio wildlife official who helped a South Carolina game warden illegally obtain an Ohio deer license at a discount.

Posted: 12:12 PM Officials say the state plan to close down the Taft Youth Development Center and transfer juvenile offenders to other facilities is causing delays in assigning juveniles.

Posted: 12:02 PM Memphis firefighters say they're concerned that a realignment plan that includes decommissioning four ladder trucks and replacing them with two multi-functional trucks will threaten public safety.

Posted: 10:41 AM State elections officials have agreed to stop purging inactive voters from the rolls until after the November election.

Posted: 9:43 AM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding a groundbreaking ceremony to replace buildings at the Cheatham Dam destroyed by the May 2010 flood.

Posted: 8:40 AM Two defendants charged with tossing a large fan motor over an interstate overpass and hitting a bus full of Lee University students were sentenced to four years in prison each.

Posted: 8:19 AM Interviews are starting for some of the 18 people who are seeking to become the first executive director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, which oversees utilities in the state.

Posted: 8:14 AM A rollover crash in north central North Dakota over the weekend left two people dead.

Posted: 8:13 AM Two people were taken to the hospital after a tractor trailer exploded in Nashville close to the Rutherford County line.

Posted: 5:38 AM Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are to testify Monday in Murfreesboro at a Republican dominated Congressional field hearing.

Posted: 5:36 AM The Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center is recruiting 19 mental health clinicians and two support personnel for newly created positions.

Posted: 11:56 AM Memphis police say they have charged a 24-year-old man with murder in his father's slaying.

Posted: 10:26 AM Chattanooga State Community College plans to launch a pilot honors college that will allow some students to graduate with a bachelor's degree from a private school.

Posted: 10:23 AM It might be summer vacation for students in Tennessee, but some teachers are back at school.

Posted: 1:40 PM A judge in East Tennessee has refused to overturn a former Roman Catholic priest's convictions for raping an altar boy three decades ago.

Updated: 6:22 PM Dozens of golfers hit the course at Avalon Golf Club to support Knoxville's Hope Resource Center.