The singer and comedian has a new album out, "One for the Road," a sitcom in the works and a backlog of recording ideas that could keep him busy for the next 50...

The Harlan Daily Enterprise reports that Jackson, a local author, is seeking to have the woman's body exhumed and her DNA entered into a national database with the hope of finding a...

Netflix distribution center, where a crew of just 18 sorts through the discs and staffs equipment to scan and stuff them into fresh red envelopes, address them and send them on to customers across...

A proposal to require new Metro employees to live in Davidson County is drawing fire, with critics saying it would shrink the city's recruiting pool, create confusion and take away simple...

, president of Heart of Texas Records, said the 83-year-old was admitted to the critical care unit of Summit Medical Center in Hermitage on Thursday.Pitcox said he had an accelerated heart rate and...

Mario Brown, 33, was jailed today on charges of criminal homicide and aggravated arson. In a news release, police said Brown set fire to a man inside a halfway house on 32nd Avenue...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Homeowners in Clarksville can breathe a bit easier: Their property taxes aren't going up.The City Council approved a $71 million budget Thursday night.The mayor said with the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis officials say the city's high crime rate is distorted by the methods used to report crime. The city often is listed as one of the most crime-ridden cities in various...

David Phelps PARIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man has been charged in a boating collision in Henry County that killed one woman and injured her daughter. Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew told WBBJ-TV in...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Just like human children, baby elephants need important antibodies and nutrients found in its mother's milk. With an elephant expected to be born soon at the Memphis Zoo, a...

summer league roster , headlined by 2009 draft selections Hasheem Thabeet, DeMarre Carroll and Sam Young along with Grizzlies veterans Darrell Arthur and Hamed Haddadi, which will compete in the 2009...

Ronnie Williams, president of the Chattanooga Area Veterans Council, says veterans don't want to go the way of Nashville and Knoxville national cemeteries, which are closed to new burials except if...

The boss, also known as President Barack Obama, has invited 25 Fort Campbell, Ky., soldiers and their families to join him for the White House Salute to the Military on...

CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (AP) -- Shirley Ann Billings of Church Hill talks on her cell phone, but not at a cost of more than $13,000.She reported to the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office that she'd received...

Letner, 20, who is stationed at the U.S. army base in Fort Hood, Texas, had attended his father's funeral in Knoxville and was due back Tuesday morning in Fort...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head - a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its shape. The 19-year-old college student simply needed a hero to visualize...

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Shelbyville Housing Authority has offered to give back to the city an underground flume system as part of an agreement signed 50 years...

The landfill is operated by Waste Management Inc. In a letter to property owners, the company said it is trying to identify the leak's source. A section of pipeline has already been shut...

The Nashville school on Thursday announced the appointment of Brett Sweet, 38, dean of administration and finance of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and...

Michael Chapman carried a package of medical scrubs underneath his arm Thursday at a health-care demonstration held across the street from U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper's...

In fact, if you're old enough, it's free.Several years ago, Metro Parks and Recreation began a program offering free greens fees at each of the area's seven courses on Wednesdays to golfers who were...

MEMPHIS, TN, July 03, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Remington College-Memphis Campus is now enrolling students for its new Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Diploma Program. The HVAC...

Memphis police say a man was robbed and shot to death while unloading groceries from his car. Officers said 46-year-old Glen Phillips was dead at the scene shortly after midnight Thursday outside...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Kids in one low-income, Clarksville neighborhood can walk to the pool at Edith Pettus Park. But if they want to actually swim, they must hitch a ride elsewhere.In many cases,...

Kauffman Foundation study that predicts the United States may be “on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom.” Over the past decade, Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 had the highest...

Chief legal officers remain “deeply skeptical” of their peers at corporate law firms and whether they are serious about changing the pricing and staffing models prevalent today, according...

from terminating a regional service agreement with a subsidiary of the Phoenix company. The subsidiary, Freedom Airlines, operates 22 50-seat aircraft as Delta Connection. Overall Mesa (NASDAQ:...

show its Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in May, increased 0.1 percent to 90.7 in April. That reading is 6.7 percent higher than in May 2008 when it...

Employers cut more jobs in the United States in June causing unemployment to rise to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May, the highest since August 1983. ...

Booking Photo: Huston Lloyd COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man accused in the 2006 murder of a prison nurse and her 4-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life without parole.Huston Lloyd of...

National Association of Realtors has awarded state and local associations with $17,250 to educate communities and agents on foreclosures. The group gave...

ESPN The Magazine ’s 7th annual “Ultimate Standings.” The feature ranks all 122 North American teams from the four major professional sports franchises based on criteria such as...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Metro Water rates officially increased at the beginning of the month to help fund improvements to storm drains and other equipment.Bellevue and Madison residents will not be...

Junior League building in Green Hills for $2 million, according to Southeast Venture, a real estate, architecture and design firm which brokered the deal. Clayton Cummings purchased the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court's ruling that Tennessee's lethal injection process is...

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) -- A youth choir from a Texas church the Southern Baptist Convention cut ties with because it didn't adhere to the denomination's stance on homosexuals has been told they...

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - For the third time this year, officials at financially ailing Lambuth University in Jackson told employees that they would not be paid on time. In a meeting on the campus...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Clarksville teenager was released from jail after she was charged along with her brother in the death of their father. During a hearing earlier this week, the bond for...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanoogans can get free bicycle valet service during the public fireworks display July 4 on the riverfront. The service will be provided by the Outdoor Chattanooga...

ATLANTA (AP) -- The federal government has approved the Tennessee Valley Authority's plan to dispose of millions of tons of spilled coal ash at a municipal landfill in one of Alabama's poorest...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world...

CHATTANOOGA — Tennessee has broken the 30-percent mark in its rates of adult obesity, joining three other states in which nearly one-third of the adult population is obese, according to a study...

"Memphis," the 1950s-set musical that had a pre-Broadway tryout this year at the 5th Avenue, is going to Broadway, opening at the Shubert Theatre on Sept. 23,...

Our fair city of Nashville, in all its neon-soaked glory, is the featured cover story of the July/August edition of Preservation magazine. And boy, do we look...

A lawyer for plaintiffs suing to stop a law that allows handguns to be carried in Tennessee bars and restaurants that serve alcohol says the legal action is necessary to maintain a safe environment...

Money won't stand in the way of qualified Metro Nashville high school students who want to dual enroll in college courses, Mayor Karl Dean announced...

The bill said that only elected bodies could require nutritional information to be posted on restaurant menus. The Metro Board of Health, composed of mayoral appointees, voted in March to require...

The THP said in a news release it will be "an aggressive Drunk Driving, Over the Limit, Under Arrest enforcement blitz." Troopers will be out in full...

Not to worry, Blake Griffin will have plenty of room to operate. The Clippers agreed to a deal Wednesday that will send power forward Zach Randolph to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for guard...

University of Tennessee emeritus professor J. Reece Roth, 71, made an appeal before U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan for leniency as he faced sentencing for violating the Arms Export Control Act in his...