Downloads in the state's Regional E-book and Audio Download System (READS) increased 77 percent in the past year.

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation is offering free radon test kits through next Monday.

Columbia Police Chief Tim Potts says he hopes four new Segway i2 patrollers will allow officers to cover more ground more quickly in crime-prone areas.

Nearly a quarter of a million people in Tennessee live with mental illness and while not all mentally ill patients are violent, some do end up in trouble. Now, a new pilot project in Knox County will help families get help for their loved ones.

A Republican running for state Senate denies involvement in the anonymous mailing that revealed a 1987 request for an order of protection against his foe.

On Thursday morning, THP Sgt. Brad Lund spotted Benson lying in a shallow hole behind a parking lot, where he apparently slept overnight.

Strong thunderstorms are dumping torrential rain in Tennessee and flash flooding is occurring.

Former Senate Majority Leader and heart surgeon Bill Frist is calling on states to get going on their health insurance exchanges.

The 1862 Civil War raid by Confederate Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest in Murfreesboro will be commemorated this weekend in the city.

State prison officials will award a $250,000 grant Friday in Nashville to the Big Brothers Big Sisters Amachi initiative.

Health care officials say a new clinical simulation center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis will be an important tool.

A California woman has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after she and another woman were found in West Tennessee with more than 140 dogs and one cat in two vehicles.

A grand jury in Nashville will hear charges against a man accused of killing and decapitating another man.

A federal judge is expressing frustration at the slow pace leading to the trial of a former corrections officer charged with fatally shooting two Henning postal workers during a robbery.

Construction supervisor David Salimi said a codes inspector visited the site near Murfreesboro on Thursday morning but that it will take about two more weeks of work to be ready.

The CEO of the City of Memphis Credit Union says crime and isolation are reasons why it moved out of Raleigh, a large but struggling Memphis neighborhood.

Authorities said the man was 57 years old and he was alone in the home when the fire broke out. His name wasn't immediately released. Investigators are looking for the cause of the fire.

Led by losses in the education field, more than 15,000 government jobs were cut last month, erasing the gains made by the private sector.

A Tennessee House of Representatives candidate lists his address as a renovated barn-style building which has never received an occupancy permit.

Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared Thursday for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their newly built mosque, overruling a county judge's order.

A preliminary hearing is Thursday in Nashville for a suspect accused of killing a man and then decapitating him.

A former corrections officer charged with fatally shooting two Henning postal workers during a robbery is scheduled to appear in federal court.

State officials are warning about a scam in which perpetrators offer to arrange payments of consumers' utility bills.

A Bradley County grand jury has indicted the mother of two young boys who died of hyperthermia last month.

Aerospace Testing Alliance, the contractor, employs 1,850. ATA general manager Steve Pearson says it is too early to know if layoffs will be needed later this year.