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Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law Monday legislation that lowers the taxes Tennesseans will pay on their groceries, Knoxville News Sentinel reports.

Effective Tuesday, May 21, MFRD will have a new Captain/Shift Training Officer. Driver Mike Keith has been promoted to the position.

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing on an elementary school.

Goodwill Career Solutions will host two job fairs in two days. Hundreds of jobs are coming to Middle Tennessee.

A Spring Hill pediatrician says she has some sympathy as the Tennessee Department of Children's Services tries to sort through claims about children's welfare.

Tennessee employers taking advantage of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program achieved a record high in potential federal income tax savings during the fiscal year that ended in September 2012, announced Burns Phillips, acting commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

Women's overall health in Tennessee improved to a grade of C, but there's still plenty of room for improvement, according to the Tennessee Women's Health Report Card.

Certainly by the dawn of the 18th century, the Rechaherian/Richohokan/Cherokee, who had for some time occupied the mountains of the North Carolina-East Tennessee border and the headwaters of the Savannah River, had spread to the Little Tennessee Valley and Tellico River.

Crews responded to a house fire in the Hermitage area late Monday morning. The fire was reported around 11 a.m. in the 400 block of Rolling Mill Road.

Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, star of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," reality TV show, and her colorful family are paying a visit to East Tennessee.

Lamar Alexander has an inventive way of fending off potential primary foes, one that could be a model for GOP incumbents running in 2014.

A Middle Tennessee AMBER Alert is being issued by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on the behalf of the Murfreesboro Police Department for 8 year-old Gabriel Swaney.

Work on safety improvements at the dangerous intersection of U.S. 11E and Bridge Burners Boulevard should begin later this year.

Improved weather conditions result in increased road construction. City Traffic Engineer Ram Balachandran warns of potential trouble spots between today and the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.

When does a musician finally hit upon his or her particular "sound"? For some, it bursts forth from their body fully formed; for others, it takes months or sometimes years of trial-and-error. For Mackenzie Scott, the singer- songwriter from Nashville who performs under the name Torres, the foundation and framework of her distinctive sound were ... (more)

Leaders of Nashville's convention center already are mapping out a possible future expansion of a center that spans six downtown blocks and sits on 19 acres.

A Knox County man is being charged for the murder of his brother, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released nationwide information on hospital charges for the 100 most common diagnosis groups for Medicare inpatients performed in hospitals.

Alice Mercer, Women's Fund Advisory Board Member and East Tennessee Foundation Board Chair; Mary Ellen Brewington, Women's Fund Advisory Board Chair;guest speaker Ali Wentworth; Paige Preston, Women's Fund Luncheon Chair; Christine Patterson Winter, Women's Fund Luncheon Co-Chair; and Mike McClamroch, East Tennessee Foundation President and CEO, at ... (more)

Officers were called to the home on Hazelwood Drive near Smyrna Middle School around 4:00 p.m. on a reported domestic disturbance.