Updated: 11:01 AM The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday that all mailboxes along the route of the St. Jude Country Music Marathon will be blocked this weekend out of an abundance of caution.
Posted: 5:05 PM Some Chattanooga area residents may not be able to make 911 calls from their cell phones because of a malfunction with a Verizon cell tower.
Posted: 5:04 PM The estranged husband of a Memphis kindergarten teacher has been charged with second-degree murder in her death.
Posted: 1:14 PM The Madison County Sheriff's Office says a man has died while fishing from a boat. His body was recovered.
Posted: 1:11 PM Police say the 41-year-old bassist was speeding down Interstate 40 in his Cadillac CTS when he clipped the back of a pickup truck, causing a crash that killed the driver of the truck.
Posted: 12:59 PM Barnes' cousin -- 28-year-old Antonio Henry -- was earlier given 20 years in prison on his guilty plea to second-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery.
Posted: 12:57 PM Robertson County authorities have arrested three county school system administrators, charging them with failure to report sexual abuse.
Posted: 11:40 AM Tennessee's attorney general had argued that selling any part of the 101-piece collection would violate the wishes of painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who stipulated that the collection never be sold.
Posted: 11:28 AM Citing the seriousness and viciousness of the attack on the couple, Blankenship said there are no reasonable prospects for rehabilitating the boys.
Posted: 11:25 AM Memphis Police Department Col. Mike Ryall said the driver suddenly accelerated as the officers were checking the car for suspicious activity.
Posted: 5:28 AM TSU President Glenda Baskin Glover said in a statement that Jackson's message will be extremely powerful as the nation commemorates the anniversary of the historical event.
Posted: 5:20 AM Ken Paulson, former editor at USA Today and CEO of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the next dean of the College of Mass Communication at MTSU.
Posted: 12:00 PM Sponsors say the measure is aimed at preventing colleges from creating policies requiring student groups to open membership to all students and allow all members to seek leadership posts.
Posted: 11:55 AM The measure would eliminate a $107-per-night hotel payment for the 33 legislators who live within 50 miles of the state Capitol.
Posted: 11:53 AM The soldiers are members of the "Wings of Destiny" Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. The unit is part of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade.
Posted: 10:17 AM A park naming committee is looking over citizen suggestions for new names for three Memphis City Parks that were earlier stripped of their Confederate identities.
Posted: 10:15 AM Society President and CEO Wayne Pacelle called the legislative bill an attempt to prevent animal welfare groups and the media from exposing illegal cruelty against animals.
Posted: 5:46 AM Final completion on the $147 million project on the Murfreesboro campus is scheduled to be ready for faculty and staff to move in by the fall of 2014.
Posted: 5:45 AM The Shelby County sheriff's office has collected more than 5 tons of paper and nearly 300 pounds of prescription drugs at a shredding and disposal event.
Posted: 5:34 AM Flood warnings have been issued in Tennessee and Kentucky as the Mississippi River starts to slowly rise from northern floodwaters.
Posted: 5:32 AM A Tennessee woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that her teenage son was assaulted by a pro-abortion rights activist outside an Alabama clinic.
Updated: 10:12 AM A Maury County maintenance worker has been killed when a large lawnmower rolled over on him on a hill. Officials did not immediately release the maintenance worker's identity.
Updated: 7:42 PM From school children to climatologists, Earth Day is a celebration of our environment. But in East Tennessee it's more than just fretting over global warming or hugging a tree.
Posted: 2:04 PM A father and son are accused of tricking an elderly Shelbyville man out of more than $60,000 by pretending to be investment brokers.
