Tennessee News

Dairy executive Scottie Mayfield has hired on political consultant Tommie Hopper for his challenge of incumbent U.S. Representative.

The program is intended to assure that children and individuals with disabilities, who rely on free and reduced-price meals during the school year, have access to nutritious meals during the summer.

Dorothy Reeder says she's 'hurt' by the decision to not file charges in her husband's death.

The Tennesseean, Nashville's daily newspaper, has this story in its February 7 issue, telling readers that on Friday, February 3, a U.S. District Court Judge struck down the law on how new and minor parties get on the ballot.

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A Tennessee man charged with murder and driving under the influence pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday after his car flipped on Interstate 71 near the Watterson Expressway late Sunday fatally injuring his passenger.

One of the great benefits of my avocation as a food writer of some local repute is that I am... A man police suspect of stealing a dead man's identity is captured on surveillance video.

TBI Director Mark Gwyn told the House Finance Committee on Monday that his agency has done without its 'confidential fund' since it was cut from the budget in 2009.

Paul Burns, left, pastor of Priest Lake Presbyterian Church in Antioch, surveys storm damage to the sanctuary in February 2011.

Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC has been named the most prolific trial law firm in Tennessee for 2011, according to The Tennessee Jury Verdict Reporter.

Newport, TN -- Tennessee transportation officials say westbound Interstate 40 traffic near the North Carolina state line will remain constricted to one lane for at least another month.

Proposals to change the retirement system for public employees in Tennessee stalled Monday in the Legislature when a joint panel of lawmakers decided they need more study.

Playing for time in the GOP presidential race, Newt Gingrich is employing a variety of tactics in an effort to revive a candidacy that seems headed for a sustained period of bad news.

People Helping People Together began improving targeted neighborhoods in 2008 using seed money from First Farmers & Merchants Bank, the Tennessee Diocese of the Episcopal Church, Maury Hills Church and private donations.

Jury selection is beginning in the trial of 2 men charged with serving as contract killers in a drug ring accused of operating in Tennessee and several other states.

This is Tennessee's annual Earthquake Awareness Week, which will include the second annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut drill Tuesday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The First Amendment guarantees that public school students have the right to free speech.

There will be at least eight contestants from the Chattanooga area competing at Miss Tennessee this year.

Most of the action at the state Capitol last week was in committees, but the full Senate took a very important step: It added Cocke County to the 2009 state law that allows 'micro-distilleries,' the modern term for moonshine stills, in Tennessee.

The first signs that HOPE scholarship changes made last year are hurting some Georgia students and colleges are starting to crop up just as Tennessee considers imposing even tougher academic requirements of its own.