Posted: 6:06 AM The inmate at the center of a death row escape plot is expected back in court Thursday to fight a 2004 conviction for the attempted murder of another inmate on a maximum security cell block.
Posted: 6:04 AM A fundraiser has pulled in $150,000 for financial education for Tennessee elementary students.
Posted: 4:57 PM Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women.
Posted: 4:40 PM The House has passed a bill seeking to make it a crime to knowingly transport or release "wild-appearing swine" in Tennessee without proper documentation.
Posted: 4:38 PM A proposal that would allow parents to do a self-evaluation of how involved they are in a student's school performance is headed for a vote on the Senate floor.
Updated: 2:32 PM Whether the Bessie Smith Strut remains in downtown Chattanooga or is moved to the Riverbend site might be decided by who will be responsible for it.
Updated: 2:32 PM A proposal that seeks to encourage the practice of slaughtering horses in Tennessee has stalled in the Legislature.
Updated: 2:32 PM The House has approved Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to overhaul state civil service rules after agreeing to changes needed to bring the Tennessee State Employees Association on board.
Updated: 2:32 PM The Tennessee Court of the Judiciary issued a public reprimand against an Obion County judge for ordering the release of his son after an arrest for driving under the influence.
Updated: 2:32 PM The funeral for a district fire chief in Decatur County brought more than 1,000 mourners to pay their respects to the man who pushed other firefighters out of the way of a collapsing roof during a fire.
Updated: 2:32 PM Police in Nashville have charged a man in connection with a shooting death discovered because the victim's apartment door was open.
Posted: 6:34 PM The measure sponsored by Democratic Rep. Antonio Parkinson of Memphis was unanimously approved in the House Finance Committee on Tuesday. The companion bill is awaiting a vote by the full Senate.
Posted: 6:32 PM The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Glen Casada of Franklin was taken off notice in the House State and Local Government Committee on Tuesday without explanation.
Updated: 6:35 PM The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Glen Casada of Franklin was approved Tuesday on a voice vote in the House Education Committee.
Posted: 4:35 PM Sheriff Ricky Adam says 36-year-old Jason Cook of Chattanooga, Tenn., is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, leaving the scene of an accident, public drunkenness, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
Posted: 4:31 PM The young Somali woman is identified in court as Jane Doe No. 2. She cried on the witness stand Tuesday as she described the sexual acts she performed while in middle school and high school.
Posted: 12:38 PM Police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph tells The Commercial Appeal that a man shot a woman, then shot himself, shortly before 7 a.m. Monday outside the business in east Memphis.
Posted: 12:36 PM After years of declines in traffic fatalities, deaths in crashes are on the rise again. But state highway officials are hoping a federal demonstration project will reverse that trend.
Posted: 12:00 PM A House committee has killed a bill to require insurance companies to pay for oral chemotherapy treatments.
Posted: 11:01 AM The House has rushed four bills out of subcommittee to guarantee workers the right to store firearms in vehicles parked on company lots.
Posted: 10:54 AM A Metro Nashville Police officer who faces a weapons violation and a DUI charge has resigned from the department.
Posted: 10:51 AM As discussion continues about who should head the combining Memphis and Shelby County schools, the city schools chief has emerged as a candidate in North Carolina.
Posted: 9:12 AM Every day a colorful character swaggers up to a Collierville chicken restaurant and loudly announces his arrival -- with a crow.
Posted: 4:31 AM A professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Eye Institute to fund research on glaucoma.
