Updated: 2:48 PM Clarence Mumford Sr. pleaded guilty in February to leading a 15-year scheme that helped teachers cheat on qualification exams. The passing scores were then used to help people get jobs in public schools.
Posted: 5:47 AM Emergency crews searched for about two hours Saturday before suspending the search and starting again Sunday morning.
Updated: 1:55 PM A Nashville judge ordered the files released on Friday after a group of media organizations, led by the Tennessean and including the Associated Press, sued to get access to them.
Posted: 5:39 AM Authorities are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of at least one person in Dickson County.
Posted: 5:37 AM Two new retirement and assisted living communities have opened recently in West Tennessee and at least three more are planned.
Posted: 12:51 PM Jackson police say they will pursue charges against a 9-year-old girl accused of lying about being abducted.
Posted: 11:18 AM Three relatives of Memphis teenager who was shot to death are facing assault charges for threatening the people they thought had shot the boy.
Posted: 11:15 AM Three men convicted of illegally selling guns were sentenced in federal court in Chattanooga on Thursday.
Posted: 11:11 AM A Virginia man is facing felony charges after being accused of phoning in two bomb threats to the Lee County Courthouse in order to avoid going to court.
Posted: 5:51 AM The Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs says it has formed a committee to look for sites for a new veteran's cemetery in the Upper Cumberland region.
Posted: 5:49 AM State Finance Commissioner Mark Emkes says overall April revenues were $160.9 million more than the state budgeted.
Posted: 5:46 AM Davidson County's Election Commission has ousted its elections administrator after a state report found errors in the commission's handling of last year's elections.
Posted: 5:43 AM A portion of state route 25 in Carthage is closed in both directions after an early morning rockslide.
Posted: 3:46 AM The state's attorney general has opined that legislation requiring anyone recording images of animal abuse to submit unedited footage or photos to law enforcement within 48 hours is constitutionally suspect.
Posted: 12:50 PM Bill Moser's Wednesday resignation came a day after the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts said it will not support a proposal to partially lift the group's long-standing exclusion of gays.
Posted: 10:40 AM John Esposito, president and CEO of Warner Music Nashville, said Pearl-Cohn is the first school in the nation to house a student-run label affiliated with a major record label.
Posted: 6:05 AM The Republican governor is expected to speak at the Wilson County Rotary Club breakfast at the Lebanon Golf and Country Club.
Posted: 5:53 AM The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to the late James M. Buchanan is coming to Middle Tennessee State University.
Posted: 5:51 AM The Tennessee State Library and Archives is hosting a workshop to help individuals gather and record information for family history.
Posted: 5:45 AM The accident happened Wednesday downtown in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 near the Interstate 24 junction and has tied up traffic for hours. Police had to shut down multiple lanes of traffic to investigate.
Updated: 5:40 AM Clarksville police are investigating an attempted child abduction case after an 11-year-old boy told authorities that a man tried to pull him into a minivan on Wednesday.
Updated: 11:27 PM The state Department of Education has rolled out a new package of incentives to help bring the best teachers to Tennessee's worst schools.
Posted: 1:21 PM A former McKenzie police chief is accused of stealing city property, including a tractor and two street sweepers.
Updated: 1:22 PM The Department of Children's Services is reviewing its actions after a 17-year-old boy the agency was supervising gunned down a fellow high school student.
Posted: 6:27 AM Federal prosecutors say a Memphis man who claims he is a sovereign citizen has pleaded guilty to illegally taking possession of government-owned housing properties.
