Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson don't get together as much as they'd like. When they do, something amazing usually happens.

A Hamilton County grand jury chose not to indict a grandfather after his 2-year-old grandson accidentally shot himself with the man's pistol.

Cracker Barrel plans to begin selling its some of its products in grocery stores.

Skeptics of a proposal to allow wine to be sold in Tennessee supermarkets and convenience stores say any change in law should be deferred for several years to give liquor store owners time to adjust to the new competition.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of a blaze that resulted in the death of an 87-year-old Johnson City woman.

Tullahoma Police have charged a woman with forcing her teenage daughter to have sex with her boyfriend in exchange for drugs.

Searchers have recovered the body of a young boy from a creek where he, his father and his sister disappeared eight days earlier.

Freshman state Rep. Jeremy Durham has filed a House bill seeking to block Tennessee from expanding Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul.

A longtime Memphis educator is scheduled to appear before a federal judge on charges that he led a three-state organization that helped teachers cheat on qualification tests.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is holding a town hall meeting in Chattanooga with state Rep. Eric Watson to discuss human trafficking in Tennessee.

The state has identified nine more cases of children who died during the past two years while in the care of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services.

Police said the incident occurred shortly before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in a convenience store parking lot. A caller to 911 said three men were talking about robbing someone.

Kristin Irizarry of Clarksville was found dead in Cumberland City on Oct. 14. An autopsy showed prescription narcotics in her system.

Officials from the state and local law enforcement officials will hold a news conference on Thursday to announce enforcement efforts to address the increase in traffic fatalities.

Under current rules, every lawmaker receives $173 each day to offset meals and lodging while they are participating in legislative proceedings, regardless of whether they spend the night at a hotel.

In a news release, the university said it was now lending iPad2 tablets on a first-come basis for three days per checkout.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is declaring in a state of emergency for mountain counties affected by a landslide triggered by heavy rains earlier this month.

The company said it plans to open the chain's 11,000th store before the year's end and the company's 75th anniversary in 2014.

Council Member Myron Lowery has submitted a proposal to add the name of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells to Forrest Park. But Lowery was in Washington, D.C., and the committee took no action.

Fire department spokesman Bruce Garner said the firefighters avoided electrocution by jumping from the engine, rather than stepping from it, so it did not create a circuit ground.

The 33-acre array has a capacity to produce more than 13 gigawatt hours of electricity per year. That's the equivalent of the amount of energy used by 1,200 homes in the Chattanooga area each year.

A Decatur County woman has been charged with injuring her 10-month-old daughter, who doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center say has severe compression and spinal injuries.

Responding officers found a large amount of copper tubing stashed in the woods at about the same time a call about a prowler came from someone else in the neighborhood.

Authorities in White House say the driver of a pickup truck died when he struck an antique shop and severed a gas line.

Hensley said he sent investigation results into allegations against Butler to District Attorney Tony Clark's office for determination about whether criminal charges are warranted.