Bill Haslam News

By MONA NAIR 6 News Reporter CAMP CREEK It's been two years since a deadly tornado hit the Camp Creek community in Greene County.

Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law last week a bill that allows distilleries to sell the alcohol they produce on premises and limits the ability of local governments to regulate the growing industry.

Prince Edward will announce the winner of a prestigious service award from a charity associated with the British royal family in a ceremony Thursday at the governor's mansion.

VONORE - Gov. Bill Haslam signed legislation in Monroe County today to reduce the state portion of the sales tax on groceries from 5.25 percent to 5 percent.

A man who police said was traveling 70 miles per hour on a side street in St. Elmo when he wrecked and killed one of his close friends was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison.

Terry Lee Releford, who police were seeking in the the murder of his pregnant wife on Lovell Road on Sunday, has taken his own life.

The Monroe County, Loudon County, Etowah and Athens Area Chambers of Commerce are sponsoring the first East Tennessee Great Region Summit to be held at Hiwassee College this Thursday, May 23.

Tennessee's congressmen are facing pressure from both camps on legislation that would grant states the power to collect sales taxes for online purchases, Knoxville News Sentinel reports.

Gov. Bill Haslam will administer the oath of office Tuesday to the state's newest Court of Appeals judge, Thomas R. Frierson II.

Gov. Bill Haslam will administer the oath of office Tuesday to the state's newest Court of Appeals judge, Thomas R. Frierson II.

Gov. Bill Haslam will administer the oath of office Tuesday to the state's newest Court of Appeals judge, Thomas R. Frierson II.

Some of the Legislature's top leaders were among more than 50 candidates who failed to report 181 political contributions totaling $145,875 when the Registry of Election Finance conducted an annual "crosscheck" review mandated by a current state law.

In vetoing the "Ag Gag" bill last week, Gov. Bill Haslam said it appeared to repeal parts of the Tennessee Shield Law.

Things haven't been go ing all that well for Gov. Bill Haslam 's administration lately on the media attention front, so maybe it was understandable that he expressed irritation last week when asked about ties to an East Tennessee developer who benefited from recently passed legislation.

So-called "ag gag" laws unconstitutionally target farm whistleblowers. Two recent decisions have dealt a serious blow to these laws.

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development has tapped Gwyn Fisher to be the Greater Memphis regional director of economic and community development.

The last time anyone in Holly Bobo's family saw her the 21-year-old nursing student was walking into the woods behind their Darden, Tennessee home with a man wearing camouflage.

At the Memphis Education Association, Union president Keith Williams said he is unnerved by the thought of guns on a school campus.

On a chilly evening in January 2012, Gov. Bill Haslam took the dais in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

It is possible teachers could be packing heat in some Mid-South school districts after Governor Bill Haslam signed a new school security bill into law Thursday.