Updated: 7:49 PM A former TN State Trooper has been arrested on sexual assault charges.

Updated: 4:47 PM A jury has found two Roane County brothers liable for more than $5 million in a shootout that killed a sheriff's deputy and his friend

Posted: 3:01 PM Bill would allow students to opt out of activities

Posted: 8:59 AM A proposal to amend the state constitution to require the popular election of Supreme Court justices is likely dead this session.

Posted: 8:57 AM A measure to crack down on domestic violence is headed for a vote on the Senate floor.

Updated: 2:13 PM Forensic experts testified about DNA evidence during the second week of a federal trial involving several defendants accused of using a young Somali female for forced prostitution.

Posted: 7:52 AM A fire has destroyed a Middle Tennessee funeral home, forcing workers to remove tarpaulin-covered bodies as the flames advanced.

Posted: 6:16 AM Workers are looking underground for unexploded munitions in the woods at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.

Updated: 2:13 PM A man and woman from Tennessee have been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for driving a 15-year-old girl they met through Facebook to Illinois to engage in prostitution.

Posted: 12:55 PM Governor Bill Haslam has signed into law legislation sponsored by Senator Doug Overbey (R-Maryville) and Representative Ryan Haynes (R-Knoxville) to help detect serious heart defects in newborns before they cause permanent harm to the child or death.

Updated: 1:31 PM The United States has been at war for more than 10 years; in that time nearly 50,000 American troops have fought only to return wounded. But one retired marine is walking to remind people of wounded warriors.

Posted: 11:12 AM The Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs is moving its Cookeville field office to the state Department of Labor's Career Center, the third location where the two offices have been merged.

Posted: 10:40 AM A 14-year-old runaway from South Carolina is being held by Tennessee authorities after police were shot at and a police cruiser was rammed during a chase.

Posted: 9:14 AM Interior restoration work has been completed at The Hermitage in Nashville, the home of President Andrew Jackson.

Posted: 6:18 AM The life of a mutt that's been on doggy death row for more than a year has been spared by a judge following an outcry from animal lovers and the acceptance of a last-ditch proposal to keep the dog alive.

Posted: 5:21 AM The head of Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant is speaking out against a bill pending in the Tennessee General Assembly to strip businesses of the right to ban firearms on company property.

Posted: 12:24 PM Two of the Tennessee Aquarium's beluga sturgeon, brought to the United States from the former Soviet Union in 1976, have died.

Posted: 12:21 PM The state is pulling inmates from the overcrowded and de-certified Coffee County Jail.

Posted: 10:30 AM An explosion that killed a worker at a Memphis oil refinery is the subject of a multimillion-dollar wrongful death and injury lawsuit.

Posted: 10:29 AM A Kingsport soup kitchen has lost an entire freezer full of meat thanks to a thrown circuit breaker. But local churches are stepping in to make sure that the hungry don't go without.

Posted: 10:28 AM A Bluff City pastor and television evangelist is scheduled to appear in Sullivan County court on allegations that she allowed her diabetic husband and 92-year-old mother to live in filth.

Posted: 10:27 AM Student loan debt at East Tennessee State University reached record levels.

Posted: 10:26 AM As the disappearance of Marlena Childress from her Union City home reaches its 25th anniversary, the lead investigator says he thinks about her every day.

Posted: 10:20 AM The national director for the Office of Head Start will visit Nashville to discuss early childhood education.

Posted: 10:19 AM The U.S. Coast Guard will begin hearing testimony Monday in Paducah on the collapse of a Tennessee River bridge in western Kentucky.