Posted: 12:58 PM Gov. Bill Haslam is asking the Dept. of Agriculture to give a secretarial designation of natural disaster to Hancock and Hawkins counties following April's freeze, his office announced on Thursday.
Posted: 12:41 PM State officials say they are monitoring 1 million pounds of scrap radioactive material after the Oak Ridge company that is storing it filed for bankruptcy.
Posted: 12:39 PM A little dog named Peanut is safe with his family after the Kingsport Live Saving Crew rescued him from a small cave.
Posted: 12:35 PM Construction is continuing on a new mosque outside of Murfreesboro as attorneys debate the import of a judge's ruling that voided approval of the site plan.
Posted: 12:33 PM A Memphis man serving a life term in the killing of his estranged wife's teenage daughter has been given 90 additional years in prison.
Posted: 9:55 AM An East Tennessee man has entered a guilty plea in the torture killing of his family's dog, telling the court he was abusing bath salts, alcohol, pain pills and heroin at the time.
Updated: 9:42 AM The trial of a former Memphis police homicide detective, charged with allegedly killing his wife two years ago as she sat at a computer in their DeSoto County home, is set to start next month.
Posted: 5:03 AM Nashville police will have their popular church safety seminar Thursday.
Posted: 5:01 AM Ode to Otha, an annual block party in Nashville that celebrates the life and music of blues legend Otha Turner, will be held Saturday.
Updated: 7:36 AM The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn., will honor the memory of a stray dog who befriended the site's founding elephant Tarra.
Posted: 4:18 AM It won't necessarily be cowboy hats on display at a trunk show Thursday in Nashville, the country music capital.
Posted: 4:15 AM A group called the Fan Freedom Project has asked for a state investigation into possible ticket scalping in Nashville.
Posted: 2:04 PM Health Department coordinator Heather Burton Reynolds said Wednesday that the virus was initially detected May 8 -- the earliest it has ever been found in the county.
Posted: 2:03 PM Grass-cutting crews can get back to work in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after retraining in the wake of a fatal mowing incident.
Posted: 2:00 PM City legislative boards in six suburban Memphis towns have given final approval to referendums on starting local school systems.
Posted: 1:58 PM Tennessee's health commissioner says obesity is a relapsing disease that should be fought like a drug addiction.
Posted: 1:39 PM Tennessee Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Jim Henry is on a statewide tour to promote awareness of people with disabilities.
Posted: 11:52 AM Ihsaan al-Amin, 61, was released on bond, pending his trial, which is set for August. He has also agreed to stop practicing medicine during his release.
Posted: 8:08 AM Dyersburg will extend walking and biking trails with a $97,000 federal grant.
Posted: 4:14 AM The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has launched a new microsite to commemorate the 75th anniversary of state parks.
Posted: 4:07 AM Veteran actor Bobby Clark will visit the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in Jackson on Wednesday.
Posted: 3:58 PM Wells Fargo says it has reached an agreement with Memphis and Shelby County on a discriminatory lending practices lawsuit filed against the bank.
Posted: 3:52 PM Randy Travis has filed a countersuit against his ex-wife claiming she's been divulging confidential information about the country music singer that was calculated to damage his reputation and career.
Posted: 3:48 PM The non-profit group is called "Rescue U",a team of volunteers mostly made up of college students from around the county who help, education and spruce up humane societies that are in desperate need.
Posted: 3:01 PM A 2-year-old child from Union County has died at a Memphis hospital from injuries suffered in a traffic accident on May 18.
