Tennessee News

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.

Last week, Tennessee State Sen. Andy Berke and Rep. Mike McDonald filed a bill with the Tennessee Legislature to ban surface mining on the Sewanee coal seam, the most toxic coal seam east of the Mississippi River.

When Jeffery H. Moran goes to work each day, he swipes his security badge, passes into an airtight chamber, opens a bomb-proof door and enters a lab full of deadly toxins.

Lebanon Health and Rehabilitation Center was cited for serious medication errors in a November inspection report.

DOVER, Tenn. - February 1862 was a time of fire and ice in a small Tennessee town on the Cumberland River near the Kentucky border.

Jay McClellan of Beech Construction loosens and removes two pieces of wood on the stage, demonstrating how the floorboards will be removed, at the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday.

Library of Congress Wagons like these in Atlanta were the favored form of transportation for Federal generals to bring their armies into East Tennessee.

The Tennessee track & field teams were in the Big Apple Friday, but Trinidad & Tobago natives Annie Alexander and Jamol James felt right at home, delivering UT its best finishes of the day at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.

A Bradley County woman is charged with TennCare fraud involving "doctor shopping," a crime involving the use TennCare benefits to go to multiple doctors in a short time period in order to obtain controlled substances.

A The newly redrawn district includes over 66,000 voters, with over 40,000 located in Clarksville/Montgomery County.

The Democrat noted that Republicans had changed his Middle Tennessee district, but he said he felt he could have won the redrawn district.

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration has fired two top officials at the Department of Environment and Conservation, while a third has announced his retirement.