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A bill in the Tennessee legislature could give the state's new procurement officer broad discretion to award contracts without competitive bidding, a change that critics say would upend decades of practice.

Two Tennessee men were contract killers who kidnapped and murdered those who threatened a drug ring that imported cocaine from Mexico to be sold on the streets of U.S. cities, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

According to Chief Meteorologist Todd Howell, the biggest area of concern is in southern and western East Tennessee, including the Chattanooga area and parts of Monroe, McMinn, and southern Roane counties.

A winter weather advisory posted by the National Weather Service cautions about collecting snow and sleet possible across West Tennessee Monday afternoon and evening.

At the beginning of Amy Franklin-Willis' first novel, suicide looks like the only option for Ezekiel "Zeke" Cooper, its 42-year-old hero.

Bills are presently under consideration in Nashville that would establish standards for state recognition of Native American Indian tribes in Tennessee.

On Feb. 13, 1862, one of the 10 most costly Civil War battles began in earnest. It was a battle for Fort Donelson, a Confederate earthworks fortress rising about 100 feet above the western shore of the Cumberland River in extreme north and western Tennessee.

Metropolitan Nashville police say they have arrested a suspect in an alleged rape at the Vanderbilt University campus as well as three other attacks against women in the city.

The idea was among four discussed Saturday during a meeting about the group's future.

Radnor Yard , a photograph by Edward Bodnar, on view in the Tennessee Art League's Premiere Gallery through March 2. / Ed Bodnar Edward Bodnar's city scenes have an air of mystery, an element of film noir to them.

The sponsor of legislation that seeks to strengthen a Tennessee law prohibiting the tattooing of minors says the measure would also help fight gang activity.

You might have thought it was all over after the 2005 decision by the US district court of Middle Pennsylvania , which ruled in the case of the Dover Area schools that teaching intelligent design is unconstitutional.

As a child of the '80s, I admit to feeling more than a little nostalgia for big hair, leg warmers... Imagine my surprise as I pulled up to Kelly and Dean Wegner's Brentwood home and saw a dinosaur in... The Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk's Office estimates that some $40 million to $50 million in court fines are assessed each year.

Baby Cheyenne in the NICU, where she spent her first 110 days. Cheyenne was 12.5 inches long when she was born prematurely at 27 weeks.

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Lawmakers have tried before to guarantee that workers can keep firearms in their cars at work.

Planned Parenthood has covered those costs in the past with $150,000 in state grants aimed at preventing HIV and syphilis.

A new mobile vet center will allow behavioral health counselors to treat veterans living in rural and medically underserved communities all around Middle Tennessee.

A British man, who owned a company that sold weapons to the U.S. Department of Defense is attempting to stall his extradition to America to face weapons smuggling charges by filing hundreds of pages of paperwork containing statements like "I deny that I am a person," and other language consistent with members of the sovereign citizen movement.

Nashville, TN - Our office learned today that we are not receiving some e-mails from the citizens of District 67.A We were recently notified by some constituents that some of their emails were going unanswered.