Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" has died.

The roommate of a Middle Tennessee State University basketball player will be sentenced Tuesday for stabbing the athlete to death.

A commander says Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee is vital to the overall Air Force mission.

A national publication ranks Tennessee No. 1 in automotive manufacturing strength for the third straight year.

Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.

The mayor of a sleepy Alaska town is feline fine. The part-Manx cat clawed his way onto the political scene of Talkeetna, Alaska, through a write-in campaign.

After 21 years of people climbing over it and salt air from the ocean eating away it, Chain Reaction is in danger of falling down.

Hours into their lawn-chair balloon flight, two men made a hard landing after they were hit by hail and snow as thunderstorms swept into central Oregon. But their back-yard aircraft floated away.

A Texas man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago recovered the vehicle in California after spotting it on eBay, authorities said Sunday.

Local bands and musicians will come together to support Chris Armstrong's family. He died of a heart attack July 1, leaving behind his wife and two daughters.

The National Park Service has indefinitely postponed a temporary trail closure in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

Tennessee will begin taking bids this week for a chance to participate in the state's fourth annual managed elk hunt.

Chick-fil-A is giving away a free meal today to anyone coming into one of their restaurants dressed as a cow . It's Cow Appreciation Day!

Olympic officials tell The Associated Press that Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to the games for the first time at the London Olympics.

Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion.

Biologists fear a war for survival between the aggressive Asian carp newcomers and native species important to people who catch fish for a living or fun.

Bob Dylan and historians at PBS are in a dispute over the whereabouts of an electric guitar that the singer plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Actress Kristin Chenoweth was injured on the set of the CBS drama "The Good Wife" and taken by ambulance to a hospital, her publicist and the show's producer said.

A startup company can continue to send live TV programming to iPhones and other mobile devices in the city despite objections from major broadcasters.

A yoga instructor, Alice Van Ness, said she got fired after she glared at a Facebook employee who texted during a class in June.

Vice President Joe Biden is offering a rebuttal of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before the nation's largest civil rights organization.

It's a common tactic for pornography producers: They sue unknown "John Does" who illegally download movies, then go to Internet providers to learn their true identities and collect.

A freight train derailment and explosion in Columbus, Ohio, has authorities evacuating a mile-wide area of the city as they try to contain the blaze and determine what's burning.

They're young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars' worth of medical insurance.

Getting older doesn't just mean a risk for physical ailments like heart disease and bum knees: A new report finds as many as 1 in 5 seniors has a mental health or substance abuse problem.