Posted: 5:07 AM Plastics recycler The Highlands Group is putting a new facility in Elizabethton.

Posted: 5:05 AM Pet food company Mars Petcare is breaking ground on an $87 million regional innovation center in Williamson County.

Posted: 5:03 AM A former Jackson police officer has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiring with another officer to steal money from a shooting victim.

Posted: 2:58 PM In Hendersonville, 7-year-old Kaitlyn Stetzer spent almost a week in the hospital with what doctors believe was Rocky Mountain fever. Her parents never saw any indication of a tick bite.

Posted: 2:56 PM A survey performed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed declining dental visits in Tennessee and an increase in the number of people who have lost at least one permanent tooth.

Posted: 10:10 AM An intense thunderstorm not only rained out the Jackson Generals' Southern League game with the Mobile BayBears, it caused minor damage to the stadium.

Posted: 10:06 AM Police said Maples' police vehicle was the only car involved in the crash, which occurred just after 9:30 p.m. Maples was pronounced dead at 10:21 p.m. at Skyridge Medical Center.

Posted: 9:58 AM The K-9 officer set the dog on the fleeing suspect who was later taken to Metro General Hospital for treatment of a dog bite. His name wasn't immediately released.

Posted: 6:58 AM The Memphis VA Medical Center is participating in a seismic monitoring system that will help engineers to learn what happens to buildings during earthquakes so that they can build safer hospitals.

Posted: 6:55 AM he Complete College Act of 2010 changed the formula for how Tennessee's universities are funded, rewarding them for graduating students, not just enrolling them.

Posted: 6:53 AM U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper is hosting a free veterans workshop at the Tennessee National Guard Armory in Nashville.

Posted: 6:04 PM Search crews have found the body of a 16-year-old boy who went missing in the Tennessee River.

Posted: 11:10 AM Gov. Bill Haslam says it's "not easy" to strike a balance between efficiency and transparency in state government. Several times this year the Republican governor has favored closing information.

Posted: 9:22 AM Officials in Nashville are trying to improve how the city handles domestic violence cases.

Updated: 1:27 PM A manhunt is under way after the police chief in the small town of Friendship was shot at a Dollar General store.

Posted: 12:53 PM University of Tennessee archaeologists are discovering the unmarked graves of itinerant miners who died in the 1902 Fraterville mining disaster.

Posted: 11:44 AM Tennessee's oldest town has begun the monumental job of archiving its history.

Updated: 10:57 AM Knoxville Police are searching for suspects after an early morning shooting outside an East Knoxville nightclub .

Updated: 6:08 PM "Operation Grainger Strike" lead to 55 more drug indictments from the Grainger County Grand jury on Monday.

Updated: 9:09 PM A former McMinn County jail guard was indicted and charged with sexual contact with a woman inmate

Updated: 8:45 PM Mt. Juliet officials fired a city worker and accepted the resignations of four others accused of sending sexually explicit messages

Posted: 12:12 PM The call will go from "all aboard" to "bottoms up" at Johnson City's historic Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway terminal.

Posted: 12:10 PM The lakes are about 3 feet below summer pool. It means boaters are hitting stumps in places they have navigated with ease in the past. Area marinas are staying busy repairing torn up engines.

Posted: 12:08 PM Cumberland Gap Tunnel is back to four lanes after the completion of a $1.5 million repair project to replace the rocks under the concrete slab of the road.

Posted: 12:03 PM A former University of Tennessee resident assistant has been sentenced to three years in prison for hiding cameras in dormitory rooms.