Posted: 5:46 PM GM is adding about 500 jobs to make the engine, which will initially power the redesigned Chevrolet Malibu sedan. The same power plant will eventually be used in a variety of General Motors vehicles.
Posted: 5:44 PM City officials in Dayton say they are concerned about an increasing number of motorized wheelchairs on roadways. In one case, a person using one was injured when a wheelchair was struck in the city's downtown area.
Posted: 5:34 PM The county sheriff's office issued the alert Wednesday morning after 16-year-old Courtney Hawkins' car was found in the parking lot of Jackson County High School
Posted: 5:30 PM The NRA poured more than $86,000 into the Maggart race, claiming she was instrumental in blocking legislation to guarantee employees the right to store weapons in vehicles parked at work.
Updated: 5:53 PM On Friday, Liesa Hill obtained an order of protection against her physician husband, saying she saw him slip something into her coffee.
Posted: 5:21 PM Estine Boyce told police after the July 25 funeral that pieces 25-year-old Jerrika Boyce was wearing matched jewelry stolen from her home a month earlier.
Posted: 5:18 PM One person is dead after a car crashed into a natural gas line in Summertown. Authorities evacuated about 100 people in a three-mile area around the flaming gas line.
Posted: 5:15 PM State Sen. Eric Stewart wants to have three debates with Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais before the Nov. 6 general election.
Posted: 5:01 PM Funeral services are set Wednesday for an Air Force airman from Tennessee who died in his dorm at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma last month.
Updated: 9:21 AM Two men are in the Monroe County jail after a shooting last night.
Updated: 11:50 AM The Tennessee Department of Transportation said the sinkhole that shut down one southbound lane of Interstate 75 in Anderson County is fixed.
Updated: 9:22 AM Claire Donahue returned to East Tennessee Tuesday night and Local 8 News was the first news station to talk to the gold medalist after she stepped off the plane.
Posted: 5:13 PM Building Codes Director David Jones in Rutherford County said Tuesday that he issued a temporary occupancy permit to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro after inspectors approved the building.
Posted: 4:29 PM The brother of John Ford says the former state senator from Memphis soon will be released from federal prison after serving four years in the Tennessee Waltz extortion case.
Posted: 3:07 PM Republican Beth Harwell won't have to worry about a renewed challenge from the man she defeated to become the first female House speaker in state history.
Updated: 4:30 PM A Tennessee walking horse group that has opposed new federal rules to stop the practice known as soring says they have received notice of decertification by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Updated: 1:42 PM State Election Coordinator Mark Goins says there wouldn't be enough time to hold another Senate primary after the state Democratic Party disavowed the winner of last week's nomination contest.
Posted: 1:37 PM The county commission has sued in federal court to block the Aug. 2 vote by six Shelby County municipalities, where residents decided to create their own school districts and avoid the merger.
Posted: 1:32 PM At different times, unofficial vote counts had the margin as 15 and 40 votes out of about 16,000 cast in Bradley and Hamilton counties.
Posted: 1:30 PM Millington officials are moving to wash their hands of a recent annexation attempt. They say votes from the Lucy community probably cost the city a tax referendum to fund municipal schools.
Posted: 1:27 PM Delegates to the meeting of the predominantly African-American church group will discuss empowering voting as well as religious issues.
Updated: 1:41 PM When officers saw the two pieces of PVC pipe under the driver's seat, they called in the Shelby County bomb squad. The pipes were later found to contain dynamite.
Posted: 1:18 PM There is no indication when public school classes will begin in Sumner County, despite an additional $2.2 million appropriation by the County Commission.
Posted: 1:15 PM A Mississippi county is challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to group the county with Memphis on ozone levels.
