A bill to make the Holy Bible the official book of Tennessee was approved in a legislative committee Tuesday. With a 7-1 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown. While the measure received approval in the House with a 55-38 vote last year, the effort was curtailed in […]

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Former TV judge Joe Brown has lost his bid to become the district attorney for the Tennessee county that includes Memphis.…

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Dominic Jeffries (pictured left of center) was missing for over 14 hours after he got lost taking his shih tzu, Coco (pictured right of Jeffries),…

  A Tennessee judge ruled that Jaleesa Martin will be allowed to name her son ‘Messiah.’ The judge’s ruling overturned the order from another judge who said…

  Though gospel legend and TV show host Dr. Bobby Jones won’t officially turn 75 years old until Wednesday, national and local gospel artists will…

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A pre-teen is being hailed as a brave young lady after calling 911 to help nab two robbers who invaded her home Saturday, NewsChannel 9…

Toni Christina Jenkins was working an afternoon shift on Saturday at the Red Lobster restaurant in Franklin, Tenn., where she says a Caucasian couple racially…

Of all of the people to call for a beer run, Allen Brooks of Columbia, Tenn.(pictured), felt the best folks to ask were local cops.…

via huffingtonpost.com A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash school textbooks. The group is seeking to remove references […]

A 96-year-old woman who has been voting for more than 70 years, even through the Jim Crow era, said the new voting ID laws in Tennessee have made voting more of a hassle than its ever been. Dorothy Cooper spoke about the difficulties she experienced trying to vote appearing on Rev. Al Sharpton’s Politics Nation show. […]

TENNESSEE — The FBI is investigating a video from a Tennessee police car dashcam that shows police stripping a man naked and then beating and tasing him. Darren Ring, a 34-year-old man from New Johnsonville, suffered a punctured lung and cracked ribs from the brutal beating. Cops descended on Ring’s neighborhood when they heard reports […]

via BBC News Fears are growing among US residents living along the Mississippi River as rising flood waters threaten communities in states from Illinois to Louisiana. Police officers went door-to-door in Memphis, Tennessee urging residents to leave nearly 1,000 homes near the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Sections of the Mississippi Delta also began to […]