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An Associated Press survey of the nation's top methamphetamine-producing states shows national lab seizures rose again last year. Tennessee ranked second in meth-lab seizures.more>>

A federal appeals court has struck down a lower court's ruling that awarded the widow of country music legend Roger Miller rights to some of his biggest hits, including "King of the Road."more>>

An AMBER Alert has been issued for two young siblings believed to have been taken by their non-custodial parents in east Tennessee.more>>

Police said they will charge a driver with vehicular homicide in a wrong way crash that killed a woman.more>>

East Tennessee State University officials are investigating the robbery of two students in a campus apartment.more>>

Police said they made a large drug bust inside a dorm room on the Middle Tennessee University campus.more>>

Maury County Sheriff's detectives believe they may have solved the mysterious deaths of one stallion and six mares at a Columbia farm last week.more>>

About 240 inventions by some 475 grade school students will be displayed Thursday at the 20th annual Invention Convention at Middle Tennessee State University.more>>

Students across the state begin competing this week in district history day contests.more>>

One person was stabbed at a restaurant in Gallatin late Tuesday night. Officials said that the incident happened at the Longhorn Steak house on Nashville Pike around 9:30 p.m.more>>

On Tuesday night, the Metro Councilman caught last week in a prostitution sting made his first public appearance since his arrest. 
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A young man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Clarksville Tuesday night. Police said the crash occurred on Wilma Rudolph Blvd just before 7 p.m.more>>

Fisk University president Hazel O'Leary said she plans to continue helping the financially embattled institution after her retirement.more>>

Nashville's local economy got a significant boom thanks to the Music City Bowl this year. New numbers released Tuesday showed that the game brought in $22.2 million impact to the area.more>>

More than three dozen people who work in the film industry protested on the steps of Tennessee's state capitol Tuesday afternoon.more>>

A former guard at New Visions Youth Development Center in Nashville has been charged with several counts of rape after allegedly having sexual relations with a 17-year-old female resident.more>>

Two months after a deadly pile-up on Vietnam Veterans Boulevard, officials with the Department of Transportation authorized some major improvements to the roadway to make sure it never happens again.more>>

A major highway in Bellevue was shut down following a head-on collision that left two people critically injured after one victim fell asleep while driving.more>>

Leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination have endorsed an optional alternative name for the Southern Baptist Convention: Great Commission Baptists.more>>

A center to help homeless veterans has opened near Fort Campbell.more>>

The state of Tennessee has refinanced $456 million in general obligation bonds to save taxpayers $34 million in interest costs over some 20 years.more>>

The last elements of the 101st Airborne Division have returned to Fort Campbell from Afghanistan.more>>

The unusually mild winter continues to translate into improved attendance figures for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.more>>

An Endangered Child Alert for two young siblings has been canceled after they were found safe.more>>

The fate of an amusement park that closed more than two years ago might be decided later this week.more>>

An 80-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer's who drove away in a family member's car on Monday has been located.more>>

A career fair for nurses will be held on Tuesday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. They are looking specifically for licensed registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.more>>

A panel for the Southern Baptist Convention has recommended that its leadership approve a new, add-on description for the denomination, though it wouldn't be a legal name change.more>>

Police continue to investigate a shooting in West Nashville that left a man wounded. It happened around 3:45 a.m. on Louisiana Avenue. Kenneth Light, 62, was injured in the shooting.more>>

A 103-year-old house once known as a drug den got a fresh start thanks to volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.more>>

The pain at the pump is back, and drivers are not too happy about it. AAA Tennessee reports drivers are paying an average of $3.53 a gallon in Nashville. The price spiked 9 cents over the last week.more>>

The Warren County jail sewage system is under repair after inmates revolted over an item missing from the cafeteria menu.more>>

Two people have been arrested inside of a dorm where a student was robbed and shot over the weekend. more>>

The Nashville Predators have extended the contract of David Poile, who has served as the franchise's only general manager since its inception 14 years ago.more>>

Police in Cadiz, Kentucky are searching for a second suspect in the assault and robbery of a 13-year-old boy in a church parking lot.more>>

The cargo ship that struck a Kentucky Lake bridge, bringing part of it down, has resumed its voyage to Cape Canaveral, Florida.more>>

Ticket sales for Bonnaroo were suspended over the weekend only hours after they went on sale.more>>

The Metro Transit Authority is hosting three public hearings about proposed new service in Madison and Old Hickory. Two will be held Monday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Another will held Tuesday at 4 p.m.more>>

Police have arrested two men after a murder-for-hire plot was foiled. Police arrested Justin Dwight Jones and Ricardo Wiggins over the weekend.more>>

A young woman was injured in an apparent drive-by shooting in west Nashville early Monday morning. Neighbors on Illinois Avenue were woken up by gunshots around 1:30 a.m.more>>

A wreath has been placed at The Hermitage in commemoration of slaves who were buried on the Nashville plantation of President Andrew Jackson.more>>

Tennessee police said a juvenile has suffered serious injury after 20 vehicles crashed along a 3-mile stretch of interstate highway near Jellico.more>>

Candles most likely caused a fire that destroyed a home in East Nashville Sunday.more>>

It's a shooting that have police searching for clues. A teenager claims he was shot while walking down the road Saturday morning.more>>

A 4-year-old is dead after a go-cart accident in Grundy County.more>>

The snow came down hard Sunday morning in Nashville, but it did not accumulate and didn't cause any problems on the roads, but that wasn't the case for everyone.more>>

Local radio station 101.1 the Beat is mourning the loss of one of their radio personalities. Curtis "Scooby" Senior died Saturday afternoon in Detroit.more>>

This weekend, Gaylord Opryland is offering up something a little different for the entire family, and it's already getting rave reviews from even the toughest critics.more>>

Emergency crews have closed a stretch of the interstate around mile marker 158 because of an 18-wheeler fire.more>>

Nearly 100 abused and neglected dogs are one step closer to getting the love they deserve. Most of the dogs, rescued from deplorable conditions at a facility in Kentucky, are now in the hands of rescue organizations who will help find them a place to call home.more>>

A local couple escaped fire in their home Saturday morning, and there was a fire late Saturday afternoon at a Madison apartment complex.more>>

A mid-state mom is demanding answers, after she says her special needs son came home from school, with his two front teeth broken off at the gum line, and no explanation as to how it happened.more>>

Vanderbilt students pulled an all nighter Friday night and it wasn't to study. They spent the night dancing for a good cause!more>>

Two Murfreesboro kids were in front yard Wednesday two people in a strange car pulled up, rolled down the window and asked a very odd question.more>>

On Friday, the President of Fisk University announced her retirement. Hazel R. O'Leary had been with the University since 2004.more>>

Gov. Steve Beshear says an underwater inspection team concluded the crash of a cargo ship into the Eggners Ferry Bridge on Kentucky Lake caused no significant damage to the piers.more>>

There is a nationwide shortage of a leukemia fighting drug that could affect thousands of children battling cancer. Health experts say some children could relapse or die if hospitals run out.more>>

A tragic driveway accident took the life of Nashville Mayor Dean's two-year-old niece. Now local doctors have offered tips to parents on how to prevent accidents like these.more>>

A fugitive wanted for the murder of a 9-month-old infant was brought from Mississippi to the Sumner County Jail on Friday.more>>

The man accused of murdering a Nashville mother in a murder-for-hire-plot was sentenced to life in prison without parole by a jury on Friday.more>>

A Williamson County teacher has been suspended and is under investigation.more>>

Police evacuated the Walmart in Gallatin while investigating a possible gas leak on Friday morning. It happened around 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Walmart on Nashville Pike.more>>

A state panel has unanimously approved credits for a law enforcement training course that critics have called anti-Muslim.more>>

A woman was rescued after driving her car off an embankment into a creek in Maury County. It happened around 9 a.m. Friday on Carter's Creek Pike just past Harlem Road.more>>

Police have arrested a man in the shooting of a woman inside a hotel in Brentwood. Herbert A. Young, 29, was charged with attempted criminal homicide in the May 2, 2011 shooting of Justine Compton.more>>

This week marks the 150th anniversary of Civil War battles at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, both northwest of Nashville.more>>

A mid-state woman arrested last week in Oregon has been brought back to Tennessee to be charged in the 2009 death of her son.more>>

Police are trying to figure out why more than half a dozen horses died on a farm in Maury County. The seven horses found dead at a farm in Hampshire were apparently well fed, and not abused.more>>

Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Tennessee General Assembly is available statewide on public television. AT&T is sponsoring the coverage on the "Tennessee Channel."more>>

Police in Hendersonville said they have caught the man at the center of massive Ponzi scheme, who allegedly swindled more than a million dollars from local residents.more>>

An admitted Satanist who was arrested for abusing a small child was in Rutherford County Criminal Court on Thursday.more>>

A Wilson County Judicial Magistrate and his wife have been charged by police after failing to report that a child was being molested.more>>

It's a dangerous and sometimes deadly job. Repo men take thousands of cars each year in Tennessee with little oversight from courts or law enforcement.more>>

A Metro Police officer was nearly run down by a drunk driver downtown Thursday night.more>>

A Belmont University student has been arrested for selling marijuana laced brownies to students from his dorm room.more>>

The man accused of murdering a young Nashville mother back in 2010 was found guilty by a jury on Thursday.more>>

The Cracker Barrel rocking chair is just about as famous and the Old Country Store's food. It's been a staple there for more than 50 years and all of those chairs are hand made here in the mid-state.more>>

Dozens of homeless men and women have been told to vacate a large tent city located along Browns Creek in the Hermitage area off Lebanon Road.
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A retired ATF agent who headed up the agency's Nashville office took to the Internet and blasted the three-day "terrorism training" workshop arranged by Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold for his deputies.more>>

The Kentucky House of Representatives has approved legislation that would raise the school dropout age to 18.more>>

Metro Detectives arrested three people on Thursday, all believed to be involved in a counterfeit check writing scheme.more>>

Police said a driver was taken to the hospital after his car hit a house in north Nashville on Thursday morning. It happened around 11 a.m. at 2825 Buena Vista Pike.more>>

Police said a worker was injured after an underground transformer blew in Printers Alley in downtown Nashville.more>>

The second nuclear reactor at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will not be completed on schedule and will be over budget.more>>

State safety and transportation officials have unveiled new protocols aimed at getting major highways reopened more quickly after crashes.more>>

Murfreesboro Police said they have linked the sale of illegal hallucinogenic mushrooms to Derrick Holden at a home at New Lascassas Pike in Rutherford County.more>>

GM plans to freeze its U.S. pension plan for longtime white-collar workers and give all salaried employees annual bonuses but not pay raises in an effort to hold down expenses, officials announced Wednesday.more>>

The guitar, an iconic symbol of Nashville's music scene, is beginning to play second fiddle as a visual icon for the city.more>>

Workshops beginning Thursday across Tennessee are designed to help farmers with harvesting, storage, direct marketing and merchandising.more>>

Police are searching for a woman wanted for assault and vandalism after the man she was with fired shots into a Antioch home on Wednesday.more>>

The three-day course designed to condition police officers to spot the warning signs of terrorism was a legitimate class and the county sheriff said he'd send his officers again.more>>

For weeks thieves have stolen dozens of campaign signs and it's costing one candidate thousands of dollars to replace and he says at this point he is fed up.more>>

A California woman has been charged with trespassing on the property of country star Kenny Chesney.more>>

Thirty three years is a long time to wait for just about anything. It's even longer when you're waiting for police to tell you who killed your mother, but Metro Cold Case detectives have finally solved the case.more>>

Tonight nearly 100 dogs are being nursed back to health after being rescued from a facility that was supposed to already be rescuing them.more>>

The Nashville City Paper has sued the TSSAA demanding access to files that were part of an investigation that led to sanctions against an elite private school in Nashville.more>>