Posted: 4:06 AM The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is stressing life jacket use as the boating season revs up.

Posted: 9:03 PM One man takes things a little too far when a door-to-door salesman came knocking.

Posted: 8:59 PM Gov. Bill Haslam has signed the state's more than $31 billion annual spending plan.

Posted: 5:35 PM The House voted 63-27 to adopt the budget proposal agreed to in a rare conference committee following disagreements over local projects. The Senate passed it 31-2 shortly afterward with little debate.

Updated: 10:10 AM Evelyn Johnson nicknamed "Mama Bird" was laid to rest in Jefferson Memorial Gardens. She lived to be 102 years old and was honored in true aviator style.

Posted: 3:24 PM Police said one Clarksville homeowner took it too far when he answered his door to an alarm salesman while holding a shotgun and then fired it so the guy would get off his property.

Posted: 3:17 PM The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the grants Wednesday, saying Tennessee will receive $4.3 million to use in establishing Affordable Health Care Insurance Exchanges

Posted: 11:45 AM There was initial concern that someone might have been inside because homeless people sometimes took shelter in the building, but firefighters found no indication anyone was there.

Posted: 11:41 AM A New York private equity firm plans to buy ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Inc., described by industry experts as the largest independent iron foundry in the world.

Posted: 11:33 AM The number is three times as many teachers who were fired for any reason last school year, when principals recommended about 60 terminations.

Posted: 8:16 AM Up to 150 Memphis City Schools teachers could be fired over performance issues.

Updated: 11:26 AM Japan is bestowing national decorations on Sen. Lamar Alexander and a Vanderbilt University professor.

Posted: 6:39 AM Four Alabama men have been fined in federal court after stealing cultural artifacts from Tennessee Valley Authority reservoir property.

Posted: 5:01 AM Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades.

Updated: 11:46 AM The free event on June 16 lasts an hour and begins at 11 a.m. CDT. It will be in the library auditorium, just west of the state Capitol in Nashville.

Posted: 7:53 PM Records detail George Zimmerman's medical injuries

Updated: 3:58 AM A proposal to crack down on the tattooing of minors was signed into law by Gov. Bill Haslam

Posted: 5:30 PM The first redesigned Nissan Altima is rolling off the production line in Smyrna, where the best-selling mid-size sedan has been produced for the last 20 years.

Posted: 12:39 PM The first-term council member could still face some political fallout from his Feb. 16 arrest at a city hotel during an undercover Metro Police prostitution sting.

Posted: 12:36 PM Agero, which takes calls for roadside assistance, announced Monday the company would place an $8.2 million center in the city, beginning business on Oct. 29.

Posted: 9:53 AM State election officials have reprimanded the Davidson County election coordinator for failing to open polls on one day during early voting.

Posted: 9:50 AM Police have released the name of the former college basketball player who was fatally shot at a house party in Buffalo last weekend.

Posted: 7:46 AM A state highway crew has cleared a small rockslide in the Ocoee River gorge.

Posted: 4:13 AM Youths involved in 4-H programs in Tennessee and Mississippi will train county officials on how to use social media.

Posted: 4:10 AM Lipscomb University in Nashville is offering scholarships to incoming freshmen who have earned top awards in Scouting programs.