Tennessee

A transportation official says repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span.

The Knox County district attorney has announced that the police officer who shot and killed a student in a Tennessee high school will not face criminal charges.

Tennessee House lawmakers have passed a bill that would put public schools at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms or locker rooms that don’t reflect their gender at birth.

Pressure is mounting on authorities to release police body camera video of a shooting at a Knoxville, Tennessee, school that left a student dead and a police officer wounded.

A Tennessee woman says she called police about a physical fight involving her daughter and the girl’s boyfriend before he was fatally shot by officers in a high school bathroom

Police responded to reports of a possible gunman at Austin-East Magnet High in Knoxville, Tennessee, Monday afternoon.

Authorities say a Tennessee police officer wounded during a confrontation with a student inside a high school bathroom was not shot by the student’s gun.

A student opened fire on officers responding to a report of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday, and police shot back, authorities said. The student was later pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting wounded an officer and comes as the community reels from off-campus gun violence that has left three other students dead this year. Police…

Authorities say a suspect in the shooting of five people in Tennessee fired shots at U.S. marshals who went to a Nashville hotel to arrest him before he was found dead inside a room

Authorities in Tennessee on Monday confirmed three more deaths related to flooding that inundated parts of the state over the weekend, bringing the total to at least seven, NBC News reports.

Heavy rain across Tennessee has flooded homes and roads, prompting officials to carry out numerous rescues

A string of deadly tornadoes roared through Alabama on Thursday, toppling trees, demolishing homes and knocking out power to thousands, part of a broad swath of violent weather sweeping across the Deep South. At least five fatalities and an unknown number of injuries were reported.

 A wave of storms is pounding the Deep South, leaving a trail of splintered trees and damaged buildings

A Tennessee panel has voted to remove the state Capitol’s bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader.

Nashville officials are seeking a $2.25 million settlement with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Nashville police officer from behind during a 2018 foot chase

Parton said that “given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”

Dolly Parton is asking Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill that would erect a statue of her on the Capitol grounds in Nashville

A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Nashville business Friday night after a robbery “prank” for a YouTube channel went wrong, according to police. When officers got to Urban Air in the city’s Hermitage neighborhood about 9:20 p.m., they learned Timothy Wilks, 20, and a friend approached a group of people, including David Starnes Jr.,…

A confused deer broke into a mattress store in Johnson City, Tenn.

Elvis Presley’s Graceland is now offering real-time online tours for fans around the world, including those who can’t make it to the tourist attraction during the coronavirus pandemic